Blogaround

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1. RIP Brittany Maynard (posted November 3) And can I just say, I cannot believe the way some people on the internet have been criticizing her. She was dying. Leave her alone.

2. 7 Signs that Jesus Reveals Himself Most Clearly to the Oppressed (posted November 3) "1. Jesus turned water into wine (in front of the servants)"

3. Asexuality in Christianity: Both Ideal and Reviled (posted October 31) "Stopping lust is translated as stopping all sexual desire – so not having sexual desire is the highest of all states a purity movement person can reach. This makes asexuality the unspoken ideal." Amen.

4. What Kirk Cameron Doesn’t Know about Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald (posted November 6) "And somehow, if a couple is not having premarital sex that de facto means that their relationship is healthy and good. Do they work well together? Do they communicate well? Do they care about each other's needs? None of this matters. What matters is whether they are having sex."

5. Dr. David Gushee: “Ending the Teaching of Contempt against the Church’s Sexual Minorities” (posted November 8) "So this is the point of my comparison—I am comparing two different unchristlike bodies of Christian teaching tradition, one of which has been discredited and abandoned, the other of which needs to be and is in the process of being discredited and abandoned. We must celebrate the progress being made in repudiating the teaching of contempt against that 1/20th of the human family who are LGBT. And we must finish the job as soon as we can."

6. And this patient dog:

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