Rachel Ford is a programmer, and since 8:00 to 5:00 doesn't provide enough opportunity to bask in screen glare, she writes in her spare time. She was raised a very fundamentalist Christian, but eventually "saw the light." Rachel's personal blog is Rachel's Hobbit Hole, where she discusses everything from Tolkien to state politics.
Christian Persecution Alert! Earlier in the week, we covered boxing champ Manny Pacquiao’s comments that gay people were “worse than animals,” along with his subsequent apology. The apology was particularly poignant in that it came complete with an “I’m praying for you” to the LGBT community. Read more
If you enjoy superhero movies, you might have caught a showing of the new Deadpool film this past weekend. Christian movie reviewers certainly did. (If you haven’t seen it yet, no worries — there are no spoilers ahead that the rating doesn’t give away.) The Merc with a Mouth may already be setting box office records, but many religious reviewers are hoping those tickets aren’t being bought by their audiences. Which is confusing. Since they said the movie was “humorous,” enjoyable, “very well done,” etc. But (*gasp*) there’s nudity and naughty language! Read more
Kentucky Democratic lawmaker Mary Lou Marzian is tired of her colleagues passing laws restricting women’s healthcare. So when the legislature passed a bill requiring women to consult with a physician 24 hours prior to an abortion, Marzian proposed a bill of her own. Instead of targeting women’s healthcare, though, she flipped the script on her male colleagues. Read more
It may have taken decades of coverage, widely publicized lawsuits, and countless lives impacted and ruined, but at least — at long last — the Vatican has figured out that it has an absolute duty to protect children who have been molested by Church leaders. Right? Not at all, it would seem. On the contrary, new Vatican guidelines for reporting sex abuse seem to demonstrate an incredible lack of progress for an organization that has supposedly learned a lot from past mistakes. Read more
