Blogaround

Kesha (and her backup singers) performing "Praying" at the Grammys. Image source.

1. My Larry Nassar Testimony Went Viral. But There’s More to the Gospel Than Forgiveness. (posted January 31) [content note: sexual assault cover-up] "The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there."

2. Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial (posted January 30) "In one incident, police took a man’s house keys, ran his name through databases to find his address, went into the home without a warrant and found drugs and a safe. The officers cracked open the safe, which had about $200,000 inside. They took $100,000 out, closed the safe back up, then filmed themselves pretending to open it for the first time." Holy shit.

3. The gospel according to Kesha (posted January 30) "Kesha brings to pop music the story of the survival of women like these. I hear it now in the stories of the Bible from which I preach every week, women like Ruth, Tamar, and Esther whose creative sexual prowess elevates them to biblical righteousness; girls like Naaman’s slave who dares to speak back to her mistress; those like the Canaanite woman who refuses to let ethnic animosity go unchecked."

4. When White Parents Won't Integrate Public Schools (posted January 29) "We’re asking parents to make choices that are often against the mainstream idea of what a good parent does—that is, getting every last thing for your kid. And it’s an awkward, difficult conversation. The lack of resources for students of color and low-income students is real, and we’re asking people to invest in all kids and not just their own."

5. When the Bible commands abortion (part 1) and Sotah as Solomonic theater (When the Bible commands abortion, part 2) (posted February 3) "The husband is the problem here. The husband’s jealousy is the thing that needs to be corrected and that is the problem that the priest and the woman, together, are about to address by “proving” her innocence through the trial by ordeal."

6. Black Lives Matter: Philadelphia Super Bowl Riots Reaction ‘Glaring Example of White Privilege’ (posted February 5)

7. Film Theory: Phineas and Ferb's SECRET Hero! (posted February 6) Woww this blew my mind.