Which means he grew up in the hippy dippy 60s and 70s.
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It’s called tavern style, and it’s what we eat when friends don’t come to town and insist on deep dish.
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Well, that’s perfectly fine with me. I am not a fan of deep dish myself.
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Just where, exactly, are the waypoints where a thick-ish pizza becomes first a deep-dish pizza and then a casserole?
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Do we have a thread here like we did at TOP on things that always start arguments? I know deep dish “pizza” was on there. Tavern style is legit pizza, though. You guys did good with that one.
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Deep dish is characterized by the pan in which the pizza is prepared. The crust lines the bottom and sides of the pan and then filled with the ingredients. A thick-ish pizza is still prepared flat.
The deep-dish vs casserole boundary is roughly defined by a radius of 100 miles from downtown Chicago.
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Deep dish also has sauce on top.
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Here’s a long but very good Bluesky thread, about the new Pope’s first sermon, what it means, and what’s wrong with so much American Christianity these days. Well worth reading; even if you already know a lot of what rahaeli is talking about, her synthesis is excellent and eye-opening.
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Initial drawings for the proposed park included a soccer field and pickleball courts, but Rodrick said nothing is set in stone. He did say that any park would include a large playground. He hopes the dispute with the church can be resolved soon, saying that the congregation could use the funds from any sale to relocate or fund other ministries.
“I would rather come to an amicable settlement,” he said.
Sounds just extortion to me: Sell us your 11-acre church campus or we’ll seize it using eminent domain because you don’t use your parking lot more than once a week. Anyway, we won’t allow you to build a small 17-bed homeless shelter on your property. We’d rather you think of all the housed persons in our community and their pickleball needs!
“There’s a real need for the local residents up in those neighborhoods to be able to walk somewhere and put their kids on a swing,” said Rodrick in a recent phone interview. “I just think it’s a very positive thing. And I believe Christ would agree.”
Another Republican who has never read the Bible.
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I’m not on Bluesky, so someone who is: please tell Rahaeli to please write that book because I for one would read the hell out of it.
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I’d be interested in the dissertation, myself:
(Literally, if I ever go back to do the PhD I always wanted to do, my dissertation will be on how rap music serves the same theological function for the American civil religion as the biblical Prophets did for the kingdom of Israel. But I digress. Again.)
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From that article:
…10 refugee resettlement groups, seven of which are faith-based…
Short response:
I wondered who the 10 agencies are, i.e. from a Micah 6:8 standpoint…
Longer version:
The State Dep’t. website, archived from the Biden admin., also mentions that there are “10 non-profit resettlement agencies participating in the R&P Program under a cooperative agreement with the Department of State” but doesn’t specify who they are. The current state.gov website - quelle surprise! - doesn’t come up with anything about it if I try and search for it, & the website times out if I try adjusting the Biden-archive URL & making it current.
So the EMM, from this article, would be one… When Afghan refugees began settling in our area after the US military withdrawal, I know that the IRC, ECDC, Catholic Charities, & Lutheran Social Services were helping out. I looked around & found an HHS (not State Dept.) website that (at least for now) identifies the 10, for those curious. (The 1st 2 groups I mentioned are on the list, but not the latter 2 - of course no one has to work with the State Dept., & at this point probably shouldn’t, even if they meaningfully could - again this is just for my own curiosity).
(The other organization, outside of these 10, whereby a refugee might’ve been settled is/was Welcome Corps.)
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