Blogaround

A child petting a rabbit. Image source.

1. Everyone gather 'round and laugh at Al Mohler, who claims "to be human is to be a parent." (posted August 27) Wow, what on earth? That's so nonsensical it's not even worth responding to.

Hey, anyone remember Mohler's 2016 sermon about how God wants people to marry young, and it's unbiblical to be a single adult? That was so bizarre! In my blog post responding to it, I said, "I'm not even angry about this, it's just so FUNNY how he's totally making shit up and claiming it's what the bible says."

2. This life-threatening pregnancy complication is the next frontier in the abortion debate (posted September 11) "And yet some abortion opponents have started making the argument that terminating an ectopic pregnancy by medication or surgery is not medically necessary. ... In general, though, doctors, including those who identify as pro-life, say the science is clear: ectopic pregnancies are not viable, there’s currently no way to transplant them, and if left alone, they can and do result in a pregnant person’s death. "

3. The Lion King - Circle of Life acapella arrangement! (posted 2015)


4. Legal Immigration: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (posted September 16) Yes, this is very important. I especially appreciate how Oliver, who is an immigrant, talks about his own experience and how stressful it is worrying about bureaucracy and paperwork and the possibility of being kicked out of the country. I am an immigrant in China and a lot of that is true for me too.

5. Christopher Eccleston Reveals He Was ‘Very Ill’ With Anorexia While Filming ‘Doctor Who’ (posted September 16) It's good that he's talking about it.

6. Evangelicals and the Gay Gene (posted September 17) "Telling evangelicals that there is a 'gay gene' is tantamount to telling them that we have discovered genetic proof of our sin nature."

Blogaround

Ash Wednesday church bulletin which says, "Remember that you are butt dust and into dust you shall return." Image source.

1. Privilege and Pandering (posted March 1) "The Doctor regenerates. The Doctor can look like anyone. And yet, repeatedly, we get a slender British white guy whose only real variations are height and age (even his style is broadly similar from incarnation to incarnation)."

2. #AroAceJugheadOrBust: An Ace/Aro Jughead in Riverdale (posted March 1) "Asexual and aromantic erasure is the norm, not the exception. ... Most asexual and aromantic people don’t even know that there are words for how they identify and often consider themselves – and are still often considered by others – “broken” despite nothing being wrong with them."

3. The Pearly Gates are never, ever closed (posted February 27) "First off, there’s not just the one gate with St. Peter sitting there at a receptionist’s desk. There are 12 gates."

4. Jeff Sessions Gump Cold Open - SNL (posted March 5)

5. No More Task Force Rogue Ones: A Tactical Analysis of the Raid on Scarif (posted February 27) [spoilers for Rogue One] "As it was, Task Force Rogue One met only five out of the ten performance measures that the U.S. Army uses to evaluate a successful raid."

6. What You Should Know If You Laughed at This Viral Photo of Me (posted February 15) "The reason I am sharing this is because people think it is funny to laugh at people with disabilities."

7. The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today. (posted March 4) [content note: child death, child abuse] "The idea that nobody owns anybody is a completely foreign one to them. It’s not something they can relate to. They think it’s a liberal lie spawned by Satan to trick people."

8. Building Reality on Ancient Cosmology (posted March 7) "Rather than accept that the Ancient Israelites had a different cosmology than we do today, one that is not in line with a verifiable scientific understanding of the world, many young earth creationists have taken this ancient cosmology and built it into their understanding of the world. The result is a strange mish-mash of modern science (the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun) and ancient cosmology (there was a canopy of water around the earth which fell to the earth during the flood)."

9. Teach girls bravery, not perfection (February 2016)

10. Voting for Trump with Jesus in the Room (posted March 8) "Could you tear apart immigrant families with Jesus in the room?"