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• Mardi Gras Celebratory Drink Calculator
• Tulane Girls After A Mardi Gras Parade
• Playing Otter / Praying Otter
• Nunsploitation Films And The True Sexual Conscience of Religion
• Story-Truth and Happening-Truth
• John Piper's Moral Madness
• The Siege of Vienna Tempts The Otter Away From Useful Work
• Best Google Searches Leading To RipChurch
• The Historicity Of Jesus
• What Can Five People Do With One Guitar?
• Ecumenical Hammer Council
• Polyamory and the Christian Community
• Polyamory, Monogamy, and the Christian's Conscience
• The Raw Materials of College Education....
• My Afternoon
• Hauntings
• Newtonian History
• Speciation: Is It Observable?
• Recommended Reading: Suffering and Chaplaincy
• The Christians Of St. Tammany Parish: Straightening Up
• Lee Strobel Fouls Out
• Grief
• KindleTinder: Reading Recommendations From The Pros
• Things I Wish I'd Said
• May 1943-January 2012
• Spring To Winter: Three Poems for My Mother
• Anatomy of a Death-Watch
• As Bad As A Hospital Sometimes...
• Saints at San Francisco: A Prediction.
• Saints Express Sympathy as Lions Wide Receiver Calvin "Megatron" Johnson Goes Missing
• Saints-Lions: Prediction
• Madwomen In The Vestry: The Bible, Women, & Ordination
• Reflecting on Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder
• Hawking Turns 70
• Michael Horton's Historical Faith: Christianity Today Keeps The Wall Up
• Every Team's Got One
• Going Up
• Suffering and The Book of Job
• Cannanite Conquest & Lewis
• Jesus Responds to Rick Perry
• Bob Anderson Will Be Missed
• The Last Christmas
• Tintin CanCan
• Crosses and Mistletoe: Paganism & Christian Fundamentalism
• Brees' Record & The MVP Award
• Christians & Christmas: A Defense
• Suffering With Cancer
• Haiku Movie Review: The Countess
• A Hobbit In Full
• News-Notes: Kim Jong Il, Drew Brees, & Other Apotheoses
• Wilson on Hitchens: The Christianity Today Obituary
• Hitchens a La Twitter...
• Christopher Hitchens: Requiescat in Pace
• Sign of the Time
• "This Is Not Real": The Sad Truth About English and the Community College
• When A Hoe Meets A Rake: Moments of Human Observation
• Hitler And Adama
• Lax Development: Final Fail
• Sycamore
• I Did Not Know That
• Strange Fruit of Multiculturalism: The Odd Disappearance of Race
• Haiku Movie Review: "Hugo"
• Some Notes On Editions of the Towneley Cycle: Part 2. Description of the Manuscript HM1
• Overheard Pickup Line of the Night
• A Good Talk Spoiled: Reflection on Conversation
• Book of Otter: Letting Go, Holding On
• Home Sick
• Starling Murmuration
• Hospice, Death, and the Good Life
• Clothing References: A Bit of Advice in Other Tongues
• The World In A Thimble: Essay Ideas In Text Brains
• Check Your Math, Man...
• Admittedly A Worst-Case Scenario: Student Writing Warns Us
• From Hell To Breakfast Mini-Review With Mini-Recipe: Tom Waits' "Bad Like Me"
• Blood On The Snow
• Racquel
• Werken Wel And Hastily: Plagiarizing and Research
• Upping Hell: More Students Add Their Little All To the Comedy of Errors
• Capital Punishment: Troy Davis
• Sing An Old Song: Theology and Poetry
• Play The Game & Wear The Suit: Reflections on The Humanities and Academia
• Visualizing Evolution: History of This Place In One Day
• The Ballad of Election Fraud: Thoughts on A Student Essay
• Really?
• Borderlands Between The Community of the Living And The Dead
• Mind Matters
• Emily Dickinson Sits In With Us
• Spiritual Laws
• Bedroom Doors
• Google God
• Certified, Part 2: More Adventures in Grading
• Certified: Every One Of These Is From A Paper I Have Graded Tonight
• Letters
• The Man Who Ate New Orleans
• G+ And The Cloudy Future
• Katrina Touches The Apple of The Eye
• Google Report
• Theater
• Batture-y Placid
• Love and Hats
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• ...Unto Caesar the Caesar-Stuff: Christianity and Conservatism's Weird Alliance
• Good Life In Difficult Circumstances: Advice 1.0 (Beta)
• Intelligent Design: Myers Reacts to Richard Land
• Fatty Arbuckle
• Church Cancelled Owing To Act of God
• Some Notes On Editions of the Towneley Cycle: Part 1
• New Orleans Weather Report
• The Bible Gets Its Freak On: Book Recommendation
• Oak
• Love and Hate In America
• C'mon, Irene....
• Intensive Care
• Wodehouse
• Uncle's Advice
• Perry and His Religion (or, How To Crucify The Texts Along With Jesus)
• Imagine the Jump
• God Hurts Fags: Homosexuality and Catholicism
• American English in Google Labs
• Peer Review: Science & Medicine At The User End
• The Male Mouse Will Not Depart: My Father And Mad Christopher Smart
• Daily Ear Worm: Pumped Up Kicks
• Breivik and Joshua: A Manifesto
• Busker Du
• Observation:Lumière Brothers
• Blame: For Reading Aloud
• Dinosaur of Religion
• Ebert On McLuhan
• Digital Global Village
• Is That A Weasel In Your Pants Or...?
• Tanya & Dorise
• Hatstand
• Norway Massacre and Reactions To It
• The Soul Triptych: Harry Potter and Christian Literary Analysis
• A Hypothetical Definition Of Love
• Getting The Bible Right: Saint Paul and His Epistles
• Truth and Language
• Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric: Wow
• Truthiness and Factiness and How We Speak
• Bachmann Of Borg: Prepare To Be Assimilated.
• Orthodox and Protestant Salvation: An Illustration In Chairs
• Billy Collins: Childhood Development
• The Hungary Heart
• Christians Speaking About The Resurrection
• RipChurch Just Got Smaller and Harder To Read
• Otter Shops At Crazy Joe Banks
• "Please Accept This Apology..."
• Jesus And The Republicans
• Haiku Movie Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallow Part II
• Google Plus
• And Now For Something Completely Different
• Inside / Outside: Living in The Real World With Grief
• Ideola: Hold Back
• Matter of Time
• Que Surah, Surah: Since We're Getting All Righteous...
• Laughing
• Last Suppers and Other Miscellania
• Faith Without A Faith
• Winging It
• Bible Scholars and Historians and Really Bad Satire
• Harry Pottah and the Deathly Hallows: Film Preview With Butterbeer Recipe
• Semi-Private
• Haiku Movie Review: Tree of Life
• One Year In The Shadow
• Without A Dream the People....?
• The Book of Otter: Time & Responsibility
• John Stewart and Fox
• American Cotton Wool
• Fourth of July Post Revisited
• 21 Years Down The Road: What Happened on I-10 East
• Why Pray When You Don't Believe?
• And Speaking of Culture...
• Tranformers of Culture
• Michelle Bachmann and Her Own Private Iowa
• Dear Conservatives....
• RefTagger: Shameless Plug
• Michelle Bachmann and the Politics of Comfort
• Traffic Report: Daleks Revisited
• Insulting Jesus in the New Economy
• Thank God It's Cryday
• The Fury of Dr. Tichenor
• Facebook: A Letter To Extroverts
• Pentatonic Pentecost: Music, Neuroscience & The Holy Spirit
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe. Daniel Amos Revisited and Crab Queso Dip
• Zeitgeist And The Oscularium: Kissing and Telling
• The Right To Trash Your Home: Vancouver Gets Rowdy
• Avatar Baby
• A Song About Coupled-Cluster Calculations with Perturbative Triples.
• Random Notes
• Genre d'Armes: Evangelical Christianity's Bizarre Hunt For The Historical Adam
• Overheard: Zotz Café. Hills And Sick Elephants
• A Dream About Trains, and About Him
• Culture / Create
• The Story of Hannah: A Reflection on The Torah and Inspiration
• Eccentricity and Peace
• "I'm Having A Conundrum." Har.
• Christian Wiman: Poet Speaks on Faith and Reason
• Imagination and The Autistic Spectrum
• OK Go Goes & Does It Again
• Worst Case Scenario For Louisiana?
• Mississippi River at Flood Stage
• Reading List: The King James Bible
• Who Goes Darkly
• Run for the Rose-Colored Spectacles: Mint Julep
• Erwin Baker
• Arguments
• Sex Roles: In and Out
• Vengeance and Justice
• Keynes & Hayek
• Ignorance and Innocence
• Relics
• Heavy Bell Weather: Universalism, Hell, Judgment
• Child's Play & Christianity
• The Book of Otter: Systematic Theology
• Nature and Its Toll
• You Shall Know The Lie, and the Lie Shall Set You Free
• Contents May Have Shifted In Flight
• Bad Language Warning: The Christian Woman's Guide To Saying No
• Letter To My Dean: Office of Information Technology & The Otter
• Love In the Ruins: Teaching Writing In America in 2011
• Sunrise
• Reflection
• The King's Speech
• Education Should Be Dangerous
• Liturgy and Worship and Childlike Faith
• "Eloi, Eloi..."
• Say "Cholecystectomy" Ten Times Fast
• Miracles and The Agony of Christianity
• Hospital 2
• The Book of Otter: Heaven and Hell
• Spade: On Planting a Satsuma Tree
• God
• Christmas
• Christmas Reflection, With Adult Beverage: ChristMouse Eggnog
• The Book of Otter: The Gift of Death
• From Hell To Breakfast Christmas Edition: Musical Review With Recipe. Bruce Cockburn's "Christmas" and Orange Muffins
• How To Give Away The Game: Saints versus Falcons
• Clap On, Clap Off: Security, News, and ABC's Gotcha
• C. S. Lewis As The Christian Parthenon: Enough, Already, of The Lovely Ruin
• Taking God on Faith: A Conversation (In Which I Say Too Much, Again)
• Solstice & Eclipse
• A Second Preliminary Engagement With Emergentism: Questions
• Opening Salvo on The Emergent Church Movement
• What Does "Riparian Church" Mean?
• We Wish You An Ennui Christmas
• Creation & Healing In The New Theocracy
• Q&A: Objections to My Views On Resurrection
• But Do They Go To Heaven? Remembering Kate
• Rehabilitating a Conspiracy Theory
• Putting the X Back In Xmas: Misanthropic Christmas Observation #1
• The Quandary of Some Christian Apologetics: History, Fact, and the Resurrection
• Guppy Love: The Further Sins of Disney. Guest Blogger Susan R.
• Interpreting Psalm 22: Its Form and Function in Scripture
• Newsflash: NFL Receiver's Ego Does Not Automatically Say Stupid Things
• Fishermen Writing Like Theologians
• A Few Observations On The Song of Solomon
• The Devolution of American Conservatism
• Un Petite Ottermusik
• Love America. And Get Over It.
• Contradictions and the Bible: Their History and Importance
• Book Recommendation: What To Read When You've Lost Your Faith But Still Love The Bible
• A Bicycle Trip Through Dating Rocks...
• Two Doctors, Some Companions, & A Detective
• A Look Back: Christianity, Satire, and Irony in America in the 1980's
• Righteousness Like Filthy Rags: Luther, Bob Dylan, and the Problem of Goodness
• Rain
• Winnie-The-Antichrist: Christian Books and the Satanic Imagination
• Taking The Bible Literally: Observations on Resurrection and Genesis
• Haiku Movie Review Returns
• Resurrection and Its Meanings
• The Shackles of Christianity
• Blair, Hitchens, and Marcion's Dilemma
• Hitchens and Blair: The Munk Debate
• Gumbo in Three Acts, or What To Do With Your Left Over Turkey
• "No King But Jesus": American Christianity & The Truth
• Redemption Breaking Rules
• Being Good In The Dark: Suffering With Cancer Like Good People
• Conversations With RipChurch Contributors About Origins: on Vision Forum's Jonathan Park
• Geez Magazine Publishes The Otter
• Nun-Such: Drudge Report Overreacts
• Review of "Decision Points": George W. Bush and the Politics of Decision
• Present Faith, Meet Future Therapy: Abraham, Isaac, God, & Emily Dickinson
• Truth & Experience: With A Name Like "McGurk," It's Got To Be Good
• Comment Moderation Enabled
• These Republicans
• In Which The Otter Opens His Mouth And Inserts His Foot And Spends Some Time Trying To Extricate It, All In The Cause of Democracy
• A Few Observations On The Week In Football, Fate, Boethius, and Of Course Religion
• Critical Readings and Wrong Turns: The Restored Church of God
• Notes On Listening To "Allegria"
• A Cautionary Tale
• Grading Essays: A Guide To Detachment
• Katie Makkai: Will I Be Pretty? Poetry Slam
• Observations Of A Life: William J. Brown
• Leave The Money On The Night-Stand: Intelligent Design Pimps Genesis Again
• Facebook Theology, The Stumbling Blocks of Satan and Real Estate
• A Thank You Note After Examining Site Stats
• Ancestors
• Digging Up Chestnuts
• Consuming Reports: Notes on Purchasing An HDTV For The First Time
• More on God's Will On Earth as It Is In Heaven
• "God's Will" in Sickness and In Health and the Loss of Faith
• Elephop and Telephong: Notes on Reading The Bible Within Culture, and Christianity's Oddness Within It
• Resurrection and Ascension inThe Ancient & Postmodern Worlds
• September 11 Remembered
• The Book of Otter: The Fruit of Knowledge
• Imagination, Truth, & Salvation
• Narrating The Success and Failure of God
• Ecclesiastes in Sickness and in Health
• Review: Volume 1: Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins: 3. Adventure on the Aucilla River: Part 1
• Guest Review: Volume 1: Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins – 2. The Secret of the Hidden Cave: Part 2
• Guest Review: Volume 1 of Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins: The Secret of the Hidden Cave: Part 1
• Discrimination in Education
• Protestants, Catholics, and New Perspectives on Paul
• Top Ten Reasons To Burn A Bible
• On Conversing With A Smug Young Earth Creationist
• The Taliban in Afghanistan: God Making Government
• Anne Rice Abandons Christianity: Thousands Like
• The Book of Otter: Death, and The Eternal Tango
• The Book of Otter: The Trouble With Dreams
• How Strong Does God Have To Be To Be God?
• The Book of Otter: Libri Stellarum, Part 2
• It's Only A Game. No, Really.
• The Book of Otter: Libri Stellarum
• Matthew 18 and How Evangelicals Tear Each Other To Pieces
• Riparian Church Steps Outside Its Comfort Zone and Talks About Economics...
• "Prepare to Get Schooled In My Austrian Perspective": Keynes and Hayek
• World Cup III
• Better Never To Have Been Born: Is That Like God?
• Speaking of Adam... Romans 5:12 and Original Sin
• Bear Baiting
• Bob Jones "Educating" Children: A Case Against Dogma? Or Against Dumb-Ass Internet Memes?
• Some Peoples' Kids....
• On Keeping Faith
• Cross & Flag: The Uneasy Burden of Patriotic Christianity
• Fourth of July: Eternal Virtue or Historical Speed-Bump?
• In The Mood For Billy Collins
• ILLUMINATI COME OUT OF HIDING TO DECLARE BANKRUPTCY
• Really. You Could Have Thought Of This Yourself.
• When A Kiss Is Not Just A Kiss
• Plus-Sized Whale Seeks Anything At All For Crushing In Mandible
• The Book Of Otter: Secretum, Solus, Singularis
• The Christian Conscience
• Yessss....
• Riparian Grammar School: Parataxis and Why It's The Most Important Grammatical Idea You've Never Heard Of
• Haiku Movie Review: The Entire Star Wars Series
• A Very Strange Fragment From The Book of Otter, Which The Owls Have Debated For Generations Quite Fruitlessly
• John Walton on Genesis' Literary Context
• A Piece of Advice
• Stories & Data: Living With Cancer
• Untangling Cliché: The Metaphor of Atonement
• World Cup Soccer II: To Whom Shall We Go?
• Science, Faith, & Echo Chambers
• Reflections About Boredom And Scripture Stemming From Reflections on James Joyce's Unreadability
• Untangling Cliché: "Pleading The Blood of Jesus"
• Medical Adultery
• World Cup
• The Long Life of Judas Iscariot
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe: OK Go With The World's Best Waffles
• Book of Otter: Sources of Sin
• Reflections On Tom Waits
• Untangling Cliché: "Grace"
• Celebrate Good Times? Come On! Lakers and Saints
• The Music of the Sun
• Voyeur of the Dawn Treader
• How I Got To Be Useless For All Practical Purposes
• Review: Michael Spencer's Mere Churchianity
• Dreams & Waking: A Reflection on Miracles and Death
• Instructions Before Leaving (with apologies to Billy Collins)
• The King James Version: An (Admiring) Bicycle Trip Through Its Demerits
• What's Happening At Riparian Church: Film At Eleven
• Dispatches From The State of Modern Spirituality
• Questions Like Lights Glimmering On A Dark Night
• The Nature of God: Conversations With An Atheist
• BP Spills Coffee
• Correspondence: On Teaching Genesis
• Let's Have A Funeral. Let's Live.
• Haiku Movie Review: Robin Williams in RV
• A Skeptic Glances at The March for Jesus
• Luther & Reason: Quick And Dirty Reflections
• Choose Your Poisson: Jonah and the Redemptive Sacrifice
• 3 Minute Challenge: Use "Cravat" and Cavort"
• Evangelicals and Reason: The Case of Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd.
• Haiku Movie Review: Period Pieces
• Questions About Orthodox Christianity From an Evangelical Charismatic
• Mercy Me: Ted Haggard and His Accusers
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe. Alison Krauss and the Cox Family, and Trout Almondine
• Film Review With Adult Beverage: UP & Primal Scream
• Why Evangelicals Make Sucky Environmentalists
• Jim Wallis Discusses The Tea Party
• Haiku Movie Review: Big Apple Edition
• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Revisited
• A Haiku For Going Grey With Zenlike Grace
• American Pie Kinda Morning
• Fresh Blood, Without Which There Is No Forgiveness of Cultural Sins
• 70/30: A Dream of Domination
• The Otter Pronounces On Helen Thomas, And Her Comments About the Jews "Getting The Hell Out of Palestine," and Declines To Subscribe To Them, And Refrains From AddingThat BP Should Get The Hell Out of Louisiana.
• Inspiration of Scripture and the Problem of Non-Virgins: A Conversation
• Haiku Movie Review: Erotic Thriller Edition
• Untangling Cliché: "God's Justice," Part II
• Haiku Movie Review Part Deux
• Knowing Things Are True: A Community Sport
• Genesis 3: You Don't Get To Email Your Serpent Just Because It Speaks In The Bible
• Untangling Cliché: "God's Justice"
• British Petroleum, Meet Louisiana Coastline
• The Book of Job: How Low Can You Go?
• Prince of Persia: Movie Review With Adult Beverage
• Surrogate Critic: Roger Ebert Has Reasons of Which Reason Knows Nothing
• How My Ravenous Thirst For Fairies And Flowers Got Slaked Today
• Ann Curry's Wheaton Gaff
• "On the First Day": Yom, Days, Genesis, and Poetic Language
• From the Book of Otter: Shape Your Bank Account
• Untangling Cliché: "Blessing," Part II
• "Thy Circumcision Is Prepuce": English Translation and the Bible
• Untangling Cliché: "Bless," Blessing," "Blessed."
• Science & Money: The Wakefield Case
• BP & The Smoking Gun
• Reading The Bible. The Book of Samuel: It's All That.
• Who Watches In The Dark
• Flavored Daleks
• Armageddon or Global Warming in the Classroom?
• Cure As Bad As Disease In Gulf
• Not All Who Wander: America's Loss of Faith
• Update on Mom: 5/24/2010
• An Interlude
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe. Merchant & Monica
• A Matter of Fact: The Relative Merits of Rain and God's Word
• Scott Simon DOES Rock, and He IS Cool
• Untangling Cliché: What is "The Flesh" In the New Testament?
• Ghosts, Images and Voices
• To Top It All Off...
• A Little Otter Music: Embrace The Earbud
• Artificial Life: It's All That
• Evening
• Christianity and Its Madness
• Stop Teaching Good Books Until We Start Reading Them.
• Haiku Movie Review: Jason Bourne
• Angels, Part 2: Census Information. Please Specify Cherub, Seraph, or Other.
• Angels, Part 1: Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night...
• Austen City Limits: Mansfield Park
• Woman Caught In Adultery: Everybody Must Get Stoned
• Speed-Dating A Gospel: A Brief Jaunt Into Technical Stuff
• Untangling Cliche: "In Spirit & In Truth": The Samaritan Woman's Dialogue
• Bourne Again: Choice, Original Sin, Redemption, and How To Grow A Soul
• The Bottle: Autistic Spectrum
• Teaching Literary Analysis, Scripture, & The Very Odd Case of Exodus 4:24-26
• Update on Mom, and Thanks
• Two-Fisted Reader: A Double Book Review. Eco & Phillips on Constantinople and the Fourth Crusade
• The God-Drug
• Evangelicalism's Gingerbread House
• Twit / Tweet
• Apocalypse: Zow!
• Shout-Out For Pictures
• John's Gospel In Sickness and Health, and oh, yes, Franklin Graham
• Feathers
• Horne Again
• Jane Austen On Crack
• Untangling Cliché: "Spirit" / "Soul"
• The Fifteen Minute Challenge: A Sonnet
• How We Age
• Taking Your Road
• Hospital
• Your God Is Too Big.
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe: Fleet Foxes and Butter-Garlic Shrimp
• Gunnerkrigg Court: A Review
• The Resurrection: Did It Happen?
• God-Talk: "Supernatural" and The Meaning of God
• Spring Football
• Guest Blog: Kim Answers A Question About Faith
• Have Your God Call My God
• Billy Graham To Bono: Evangelical Gets Its Freak On
• Deep Water Rising: What's Love Got To Do With It?
• Nurse Gets It
• Brave New Knowledge
• Pagan-Speak: They Get It
• More on Bart Ehrman
• "The Stench of [Zorn's] Ignorance"
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review With Recipe: Rolling Thunder Revue & Turkey Gumbo
• Sin & Depravity
• Update: Cancer, Freshman Composition, and Other Evidences That There Is Not A Good God in Control of This Place or Rather That "Goodness" Cannot Be Defined In Terms of My Personal Well-Being
• Bart Ehrman and Scripture's Dirty Secret: It's Not All That
• Book Lover Porn
• Oncology & Mistakes
• On Not Being Too Low
• Celebrity Sighting: Theresa Andersson
• And It Just Keeps Coming
• Story, Meaning, Knowledge
• Conversations With Touchstone: Theists, Scientists, & Fairy Giraffes With Butterfly Wings
• Evangelicals In Science
• As I Look For A New Job...
• British Actors, American Actors
• End Times Raffle: Did Istanbul Draw The Beastie Ticket?
• Mothers, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be T.V. Watchers
• Fact & Truth
• Radiometric Popcorn II: Isochrons
• Ringing The Bell
• Radiometric Popcorn
• Truth of Scripture, Factual and Figurative Language
• Gulf / Light
• "Inspired' Literature
• God & Change
• Cancer, Death, Story, and Unfinished Business
• Coming Soon: Radiometric Popcorn, An Interactive Guest Effusion
• God-Talk: "I Really Feel That..."
• How We Become Expert
• Lots of Dead Things Grow Old And Then Come To Haunt Us, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Vanadium Porphyrin
• Temptation & The Holy Spirit
• Is God Sovereign?
• Tim Wise On Tea Parties
• From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review, With Recipe: Raising Sand & Spinach Madeline
• "Just A Story"
• Untangling Cliché: "Through Christ"
• Myth: What Is It?
• New Orleans and the Superbowl