Last November (2019), columnist Daniel Lavery tweeted about a scandal and coverup he had witnessed take place in his father’s Bay Area evangelical megachurch. Lavery is an author, co-founder of the late feminist website The Toast, and Slate Magazine’s Dear Prudence advice columnist*. His father is Reverend John Ortberg, former teaching pastor at Willow Creek…
Soup + Stew
Divorce Soup
“In the case of ABC, there was a knee-jerk reaction to solve this PR crisis. The majority of the [Great American Baking S]how’s executive producers were women, all of the finalists and semi finalists were women. And instead of stopping a man from causing more hurt, they continued to send out a ripple effect of…
Amaretto-Butternut Squash Soup with Cinnamon Toast Croutons
“An 80-year-old white guy is not leading any sort of political revolution. And why is it that this 80-year-old white guy who is supposed to be leading the REVOLOOSHUN took a three-year break from the revolution to write a couple of books? Weirdest revolution ever.” –Imani Gandi I haven’t been shy about who will get…
Iron Chef-Style Chicken Tortilla Soup
There are very few first-world problems in this life I find more maddening than the uber-annoying, completely unnecessary rhinovirus – yup, the common cold. Seriously, WHAT is the point. This completely harmless virus hitches a ride into your system via one of your orifices, and can your immune system just leave well enough alone? Oh…
Spiced Butternut Squash and Apple Soup with Bacon and Goat Cheese
We put up our Christmas tree Sunday afternoon. It’s the first year in our decade-plus of togetherness that we’re using an artificial tree. And I’m pretty sure we screwed it up, because as I type this, I’m sitting on the couch, directly across the living room from the tree, and I can see a near-perfect…
