Karan made a rap video for $0. Anything that samples the Pixies and references Minor Threat is worth watching. It’s really good. “Yeah, I just worry on the context.” Older videos: “Heritage” and “Syphon Cypher“.
The New York Times has an article on a monastery “in that bastion of secular modernity known as Cambridge, Mass.” and one on Exodus International, which holds (held?) that homosexuals can be “cured” through Christian prayer and psychotherapy, and about how the leader of Exodus has renounced some of the movement’s core beliefs. “Robert Gagnon [...] issued a public call for Mr. Chambers to resign. ‘My greatest concern has to do with Alan’s repeated assurances to homosexually active ‘gay Christians’ that they will be with him in heaven.’”
Hi Shabbos, thanks for the mention, but just to clarify, I didn’t help design the survey. I was only the advisory panel. The Pew Research Center makes the final call on everything they publish and run.
Sorry to have mischaracterized your relationship to the study, I have corrected the post. I’m a big fan of Black, White, and Gray, by the way, and was planning on sharing your latest post sometime this week if all goes according to schedule, though so far with this blog, nothing has. Regardless, I’ve certainly appreciated your commentary on the Pew study.
-Jared (“Shabbos” isn’t my name; it’s just the Ashkenazi pronunciation of “Shabbat”/”the Sabbath”. It’s common for observant [Ashkenazi] Jews in Israel and America to continue to use the traditional Eastern European pronunciation, rather than the modern one based on a Sephardi standard. “Gut Shabbos”>”Shabbat shalom” in many Orthodox communities). More about me here.
Hi Shabbos, thanks for the mention, but just to clarify, I didn’t help design the survey. I was only the advisory panel. The Pew Research Center makes the final call on everything they publish and run.
Sorry to have mischaracterized your relationship to the study, I have corrected the post. I’m a big fan of Black, White, and Gray, by the way, and was planning on sharing your latest post sometime this week if all goes according to schedule, though so far with this blog, nothing has. Regardless, I’ve certainly appreciated your commentary on the Pew study.
-Jared (“Shabbos” isn’t my name; it’s just the Ashkenazi pronunciation of “Shabbat”/”the Sabbath”. It’s common for observant [Ashkenazi] Jews in Israel and America to continue to use the traditional Eastern European pronunciation, rather than the modern one based on a Sephardi standard. “Gut Shabbos”>”Shabbat shalom” in many Orthodox communities). More about me here.