A new craze is hitting the internet identified by the hashtag #BurnWhiteJesus. Otherwise known as the “White Jesus Picture Challenge,” it calls upon people to post online videos of themselves burning pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a white man. The religious education website Patheos writes, the challenge “seems to be a recognition that the common […]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) walked off the stage mid-speech after being booed Wednesday night following comments he made praising Israel. As Politico reports, “The Texas Republican senator and tea party icon was a keynote speaker at a Washington summit hosted by In Defense of Christians, a group that focuses on persecuted Christian and minority communities […]
The NFL has hired former FBI director Robert Mueller to serve as an independent investigator into their handling of the Ray Rice case. As NBC Sports reports that “Wednesday night, after a bombshell report from the Associated Press placed a copy of the infamous elevator video inside the walls of 345 Park Avenue in April, […]
On September 8, I wrote a letter to Janay Rice, responding to her Instagram post extolling the horrors she and her husband (former) Baltimore Raven running back Ray Rice have suffered over the exposure of his violent assault of her at a casino in Atlantic City earlier this year. My response was simply to the […]
“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar In the hinterlands of central Burma, in the […]