Behold! Episode 9 of OMGWTFBIBLE with A Mysterious Stranger is now available!!
This episode is the first I’m doing in the new format (explained here) so I don’t have a pithy In which for you!
Double Wide Bar was gracious enough to host us this month, and I am forever grateful to them. The people there are endlessly helpful. I cannot say enough about how kind they were. Please, if you’re in New York, pay them a visit and sample their incredible whiskey collection or their delicious menu.
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There is a guy who calls himself “The Fat Jew.” Apparently, he has been using New York’s ubiquitous CitiBike racks (which I love, by the way) to offer free cardio classes to homeless folks. Ok! Here is a video:
Is this insulting? I don’t know, maybe a little.
<h/t: Jewcy>
Goodbye Depeche Mode, hello Kanye.
“Kanye’s Damn Croissant” by Matt Pisane
And here’s a longread about Kanye’s relationship with religion, just because.
Maybe there is a God after all!
Exodus International, a leading “ex-gay” organization (you know, those lovely groups that think if gay guys pray hard enough, they won’t like dudes anymore), is shutting its doors.
And this except from an apology from Alan Chambers, Exodus’ president, is just–wow. Read it for yourself:
Please know that I am deeply sorry. I am sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced. I am sorry that some of you spent years working through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractions didn’t change. I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents. I am sorry that there were times I didn’t stand up to people publicly “on my side” who called you names like sodomite—or worse. I am sorry that I, knowing some of you so well, failed to share publicly that the gay and lesbian people I know were every bit as capable of being amazing parents as the straight people that I know. I am sorry that when I celebrated a person coming to Christ and surrendering their sexuality to Him that I callously celebrated the end of relationships that broke your heart. I am sorry that I have communicated that you and your families are less than me and mine.
As you’ve probably realized by now, the chapter divisions in OMGWTFBIBLE do not match the divisions in any other bible. That’s because I made mine up! Up to this point, I’ve been preparing what seems like a decent chunk of text for each monthly episode and calling it a “chapter.” Episodes 1 through 8 of this podcast are also chapters 1 through 8 of OMGWTFBIBLE. Considering the chapter divisions in every other version are totally arbitrary and only about 1000 years old, I don’t see any problem with this. Some of the original chapter breaks are pretty jarring!
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