Links for the weekend

 Via Lamebook. 

Thomas Aquinas: Patron saint of evolutionary psychologists?

Nicolas Kristof really liked John Stott. Brantley Gasaway did too and brings up biblicism very interestingly.

Nadia Bolz-Weber beautifully explains what the Kingdom of God is like.

Good news! You have a really, really big brain.

Let’s have some premarital sex with Brian McLaren.

Melissa Matthes argues for monogamy, contra Dan Savage and Mark Oppenheimer.

Ten things not to say to a depressed person and ten supportive things I’m glad somebody said to me.

Kait Dugan connects Evangelical atonement theories and oppression of women very helpfully.

Surprise, surprise! Science finds that religion is for the poor. Isn’t that what we’ve said all along?

Randal Rauser thinks Jesus would drink beer.

Robbie MacKenzie interviews Tony Jones about youth ministry and the emerging church.

John Chrysostom, via Fred Clark, reminds us that nothing is new under the sun.

Raised one, Glenn Peoples explains why he isn’t a Catholic.

Epic f’ing fail! Christians more likely than any group to believe violence that kills civilians can be justified.

Patrol Mag’s David Sessions interviews Terry Eagleton.

My friend Jens L. Thomsen, mastermind behind Orka, which have been featured before, playing “Hon leitar” (“She searches”). The song is from Orka’s most recent album, Óró, which you really should get your hands on.