I have a new blog

So I've been blogging over at the Christian Century's group blog since before I quit posting here. This week, I've resumed solo blogging--though still at the Century's site. The blog is here; the feed is here.

Update yer feed readers

This blog is going to stay dormant for the foreseeable future, but this blogger is not: please bookmark Theolog or subscribe to its feed if you'd like to keep up with my posting.

Some of you know that I've been editing Theolog for awhile. It's a group blog with many contributors, and my own posting there has been somewhat limited. I haven't blogged much ANYWHERE for the past couple months, what with a FT job, PT school, and the homestretch of wedding planning. Now that I'm all married, I intend to get back to it--but I've decided to focus that attention on Theolog, not here.

When I post at Theolog, I get edited, so it's a bit more of a filtered experience. I know as well as you do that this is probably a net positive--passion and voice are certainly assets in a blogger, but really? (I also edit everyone else who posts there--I'm 100 percent pro-editing. In fact, if this were someone else's post, I'd probably strike this entire parenthetical thing I'm typing right now. But given that this will be my last unedited post for awhile, I may as well indulge myself.)

Anyway, please keep reading and commenting. I've much appreciated the good conversations I've had here over the last couple years.

Jurgen Hauerwas is back

My semi-hiatus from this blog is likely to continue until after I get married this winter. But I had to come out of hibernation to note that my favorite speculative-theology parody blog (and likely yours), ΨΕΥΔΟΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ, is back after an even longer time away. I'm sure the whole town of Tübingen, NC is proud.

The evolving evolution conversation

Encouraging news on the faith-and-evolution front from James McGrath, recently one of my favorite bloggers: Campus Crusade at Butler, where he teaches, has decided to uninvite the faux-credentialed creationist Willie Dye to campus, noting that they'd still like to host conversations on the subject but would prefer to do so with academically serious, qualified participants. Good for them.

And, via James, here's an informative video about the Alien Intervention Institute. You say that sounds like a controversial organization? I say Teach the Controversy!

Sullivan's "Dear President Bush" letter

Andrew Sullivan, perhaps the most prominent media critic of President Bush's who was originally an enthusiastic supporter, is calling on Bush to take responsibility for the U.S. torture regime as a means of moving forward. He's doing it by way of a lengthy "epistle" addressed to the former president and published in the new Atlantic. Worth a read if you've got the time.

Mmm, starch and salt and oil and air

Karen Olsson, in the incomparable Texas Monthly, asks the question I've spent much of my life pondering.

Via.

Behind "You Lie!"

Like most people, I tend to think Saturday Night Live was funniest when I was ~18 years old. I haven't watched it on TV in years--but I have admired a lot of its political humor when I've seen clips on the internets.

This one's particularly good, for at least two reasons:

• It's really silly.
• It's a funny premise about a political story--but it isn't itself particularly political.

Enjoy: