I don’t like church, but I do like Lutherans. And Lutherans don’t like payday lenders… or at least they shouldn’t, says Lutheran theologian Anna Madsen. The pastor-blogger…
Tag: religion
Mr. Kurtz roasts Allen Unruh for the conservative chiropractor’s anti-gay, anti-Supreme Court screed in that Sioux Falls paper. Analyzing Unruh’s words is usually a recipe for heartburn,…
Jonathan Ellis questions whether South Dakotans for Responsible Lending will be able to build an effective coalition to support its petition to cap interest rates…
Last week, Attorney General Marty Jackley told public employees that they could choose not to issue marriage licenses to couples their religion tells them not to like.…
Dang: I should have run against Marty Jackley. South Dakota’s Attorney General apparently does not understand the Constitution, the separation of church and state, and need to…
Following the declaration that marriage is a Constitutional right for homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, Bob Ellis declares that America is drowning in a “tide of…
I woke last night to the sound of hail. According to Gordon Howie, Aberdeen must have sinned: Grapefruit sized hail battered parts of Western South Dakota.…
The Vatican released Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ at noon in Rome this morning. The Pope says he seeks not merely the attention of his Catholic followers…
Yesterday I had to knock down the rumor that Ted Cruz was blaming Indian rain dances for flooding in Texas. But now the press tells…
An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…