And just when I’d grown colder

And just when I’d grown colder September 30, 2014

• “… then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

• “It also raises the question of how daft an employee and/or manager must be to post that sign without realizing what it was advertising. Unless of course this was a deliberate bird-flip to Sainsbury’s management by a disgruntled worker. In which case, well done.”

• The late Paul Crouch was a pioneer in televangelism and a proponent of the perverse “prosperity gospel,” so I always suspected he was a grifter with several walk-in closets full of skeletons, contempt for his audience, and a team of fixers and attorneys who kept his secrets secret. But I still don’t know what to make of the allegations about Crouch in his recently unearthed FBI file. I know Crouch was a crook who couldn’t be trusted, but I also know that J. Edgar Hoover’s agency has a history of compiling dubious dossiers on public figures.

That Paul Crouch was laundering money seems very plausible. But gun-running seems out of character — too risky and labor-intensive for such a self-indulgent con man.

But if I’m not sure that I can believe all the allegations in Crouch’s FBI file, I am sure that I would love the screenplay and the movie based on everything in that FBI file being true. Harry Dean Stanton would’ve been perfect as Paul Crouch 30 years ago, but who would we cast today? Casting suggestions for both Paul and Jan Crouch, please, in comments below.

Crouches

• Brian Pellot: “If Christians are uncomfortable with devout or flippant non-Christian faiths seeping into the public square, they’d be wise to remember that many people are uncomfortable when Jesus, God and the Bible appear in government-sponsored spaces. They’d also be wise to remember the Establishment Clause.”

Related: If Christian football players can Tebow, then so can Muslim football players. Especially after they pick off Tom Brady.

• “8 Thoughts on Receiving Charity in the Form of a Convertible” — wisdom, insight, honesty, self-scrutiny and gratitude from Jennifer Ellison.

Congratulations to Rob Tisinai!

Dana Bolger on the promise, and the limitations, of the “It’s On Us” campaign against domestic violence. Bolger is talking about the differentiated, overlapping, mutual responsibilities we all have in our individually and corporately varied contexts, roles and relationships. This is what subsidiarity looks like.

 


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