Blogaround

Image text: "Do you want to help me?" "YES!" said Jeff. "YEOS!" said Geoff. Image source.

1. Josh Harris Makes Good (posted October 23) "He admits that he completely made up the concept of giving your heart away, with no basis in scripture or anywhere else."

2. Behind the viral fundraiser: meet the aid group reuniting families (posted October 15) "The not-for-profit group attracted little notice beyond Texas until this year, when almost overnight it became a national focal point for opposition to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, the subject of a major Guardian investigation this week."

3. When They Denied My Baptism: Erica Ferguson (posted October 26) "the reason I couldn’t get baptized was that I would want to tell my full story, of being gay and Christian, and Passion City Church couldn’t do that without taking a stand they weren’t willing to take."

4. 'You Are Safe Now': Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral (posted October 26) [content note: murder] 

5. Bible Museum says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake (posted October 23)

6. ‘God’s point of view’ (posted October 9) "And God’s point of view, the Bible says, is that of a child ripped from its parents and caged behind barbed wire."

7. a second coming out of sorts (posted October 12) "For me, I generally need to spend extended periods of time getting to know someone before I even know if I might like that person or not."

8. Purity Culture and Performative Morality (posted October 29) "In the [evangelical] community, you’re judged according to other people’s perceptions of you. It’s not how you feel about yourself, whether you feel close to God, or whether you experience shame. It’s whether other people perceive you as being close to God, or think you should experience shame based on their observations of things like whether you throw your hands up the right moments, express anger too much, show too much skin, and so on."

9. President Wants to Use Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship (posted October 30) Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow hopefully this isn't something he can actually do... hopefully this is just talk... but wow this is bad.