Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about:

• The Nones are on the rise again.
• The Muppets for the marriage-equality win
• "How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care"
• "Aaron Sorkin fires writing staff that probably wasn’t writing The Newsroom in the first place"
• Sen. McCain slaps down the Islamophobes
• The better Ross Douthat
• Why voter fraud almost never happens
• "‘Suburban’ is not the same as ‘theologically conservative’"
• "The Most Insane Letter Ever Written By A Child To A TV Weatherman"
• Some advice on speed-reading
• My favorite from the popular pastorin' Tumblr
• "Poverty in the 50 years since ‘The Other America,’ in five charts"
• "How Do You Talk About Black Unemployment Without Talking About Government Jobs?"
• "A Black Theology of 'America The Beautiful'"
• "What Happened to Romney’s “Evangelical Problem”? | Religion & Politics"
• "Why you need the Septuagint"
• "FAQ: The 'Snake Fight' Portion Of Your Thesis Defense"

Links are also posted throughout the day in the right-hand sidebar of my main blog page and in this feed.