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And you may say to yourself, ‘My God! What have I done?’

June 21, 2018 By Fred Clark

Yes, white evangelicalism created Scott Pruitt, but not in the way the article imagines. Also: Mural of Glorious Leader at Tender Age Liberty Camp, and how “tough on crime” stupidity winds up setting murderers free. Read more

And his own received him not

June 20, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Anti-refugee and anti-immigrant white evangelicals’ “misconceptions” are not the result of those folks being tricked or deceived or misinformed into believing falsehoods. They’re the result of white evangelicals CHOOSING to believe falsehoods. Read more

Romans 13 and the Gettysburg Address

June 19, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We’re not first-century subjects of an emperor. We shouldn’t be reading Romans 13 as about our accountability TO government, but as about our accountability AS government. Read more

Unspoken testimony

June 18, 2018 By Fred Clark

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This is the story Matt Giuffrida told me about how he came to work resettling refugees for the American Baptist Churches. Or, really, it’s the story Matt didn’t and couldn’t tell. Read more

Sunday favorites

June 17, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Birmingham 12:7-14 You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types… Read more

‘This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate …’

June 16, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We don’t need to revisit and rehash all of the details of this argument. The side endorsed and advocated by Sessions and Sanders and Goebbels and Calhoun and Botha and Bell has always been flaccid, dishonest, inconsistent, and transparently self-serving. And evil. Read more

LBCF, No. 189: ‘Think Different’

June 15, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“Bible-prophecy scholarship” in this story — and in real life — is phlebotinum. The Rapture and the rest of the End Times chart are about as “biblical” as reversing the polarity on a tachyon pulse. Read more

Hereditary

June 14, 2018 By Fred Clark

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The Satanic Panic does not arise from fear that there might be monsters out there in the dark. It comes from the fear that there might not be. Without those monsters, how can we know that we are good? Read more

The sea on the tide has no way of turning

June 13, 2018 By Fred Clark

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The development and real estate boom in Avalon is an example of America’s death-bet approach to economics, infrastructure, community, and civilization in general. It’s a beautiful place, but also an ugly one. Read more