Behaving brands, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• An End to Pretending: On Being Taught How to be a Sinner -- "Theologians often make doubtful Christians."
• Are Baptists Protestants? -- "If a church is yet at one with the world we cannot recognize it as a true church."
• Brands Are Behaving Like Organized Religions -- "Scholars have found that every organized religion offers three key benefits to its followers, a) a set of core beliefs and values, b) symbols, myths, and rituals, and c) relationships with members of a like-minded community."
• Brazen sexism is pushing women out of America’s atheism movement -- "Why would women join a movement led by sexists and populated by trolls?"
• Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me -- "Put simply, the prosperity gospel is the belief that God grants health and wealth to those with the right kind of faith."
• Evangelicals Are Not the Boogeyman -- "There are so many misconceptions about 'evangelicals'..."
• Man Skipped Work For 6 Years And No One Noticed Until He Won An Award -- "For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work."
• Same-Sex Marriage Is Constitutionally Illegitimate, the Result of an Anti-Democratic Litigation Campaign -- "Both marriage and our constitutional system have been weakened by the illegitimate judicial legalization of same-sex marriage."
• The middle ground in the abortion argument -- "The most effective anti-abortion placard I ever saw...said simply: 'Abortion stops a beating heart.'"
• Victim of former missionary’s theft loses health, wealth, but keeps sense of humor -- "A trustee decision not to prosecute a missionary caught embezzling funds wound up costing an Alabama businesswoman..."
• What B. B. Warfield Got Wrong in His Doctrine of the Trinity -- "It is not, however, an accidental omission..."
• Withholding or Delaying the Baptism of Believers — Is it ever right? -- "I know of baptistic churches that hold the particular view that no one should be baptized until they are eighteen years old, without exception."