So you think it's OK to bilk poor people out of their last dollar.

Their theology is laden with cheap grace, what we call the Theology of Glory. Schuller wasn't too bad, but Osteen and his ilk preach what's called "Prosperity Gospel," which sees wealth as evidence of God's favor, and if you're poor, or sick, or depressed, you're just not praying hard enough — or sending enough to the…

It's because we're a bunch of fuck-ups who won't take care of the poor like we should, so we'll always have them.

Lutherans a notoriously cheap. My old church had to opportunity to buy a lot for their building right on Broadway (in 1948), but they bought around the corner instead.

Oh, my. Not for nothing did John Lomax III and Robert Oermann, great chroniclers of the Music City, call it "the Mayo Clinic for pop stars past their prime."

I know what you're talking about; lived in Nashville (the Southern Baptist Vatican) for 30 years. But "mainline" has a very specific meaning, and it doesn't include Baptists. It's Episcopalians, United Methodists, ELCA Lutherans (not Missouri Synod), PC-USA Presbyterians (not PCA).

Yeah, you just proved you don't know what you're talking about. Baptists are SO not mainline Protestants.

Not mainliners.

She's my fave, if only because she knows the most words.

Probably, she said, hanging her head in shame.

If that ain't a tell, I don't know what is.

Back when I was a music journalist, I had a magic pen that would quit writing whenever I tried to write some bullshit cliché like "eponymous debut." If I had attempted anything like "uniquely lyrical, troubadour style," it probably would have exploded.

Ugh. So not the same. Darienne was flat-out mean. Ginj is just mouthy.

They are weighted. The Epistles don't get the treatment The Gospels do, at least in actual worship.

Yeah, I don't see this movie, with Damon and Affleck behind it, being one of those culture-warrior pander-fests. Don't forget, they starred in Dogma, which drove that audience to apoplexy.

It's a reference to their shapes. Kennedy is the hourglass, Jaidynn is round like a wall clock.

I don't know the specifics of licensing for TV, but I'm pretty sure they don't negotiate for each individual song.

Gawd! I didn't have cable then, so I borrowed the DVDs from the library, and when I got to the end, it was, "That's it?! Are you kidding?"

How is that an issue with her? Shouldn't your beef be with the self-indulgent writers?

Yeah, she played a mom on House. Pretty sure she's in The Groundlings.