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May 01, 2026
LBCF: Sexiest Man Alive
I can imagine a successful joke that involved the Antichrist being named People magazine's "Sexist...
April 2026
April 30, 2026
Money money money money. Money.
If you want to understand white/Christian nationalism, remember what the O'Jays said back in 1973:...
April 29, 2026
The literary puzzle of Isaiah 1
The compositional chronology of the Bible presents some interesting puzzles. But the stuff about widows,...
April 28, 2026
Benjamin Lay, moral accommodation, and Jules Winnfield
I do not believe it was possible for people to have passively or accidentally ignored...
April 27, 2026
1 Corinthians 13 in the news
"And yet I will show you the most excellent way."
April 26, 2026
Sunday reading
"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the...
April 24, 2026
LBCF: Why doctors hate healthy people
Wherein Jerry Jenkins lays out his weird, inhumanly dumb conspiracy theory about how health care...
April 23, 2026
Text and contexts: More Bible in the news
On a pre-recorded video, Trump reads a famous Bible verse from 2 Chronicles. I'm not...
April 22, 2026
They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things
I'm pretty sure I heard this one before.
April 20, 2026
You can be the president, I’d rather be the …
Leo says that "peace and unity" are Good Things. Donald Trump (correctly) perceives this as...
April 19, 2026
Sunday reading
"I hated everyone / but I acted generously / and no one found me out"
April 17, 2026
LBCF: Dead Man’s Messages
I've seen Left Behind described as a "page-turner," but you'd have to be turning those...
April 16, 2026
The white evangelical Bible in the news
Isaiah chapter 1 is in the Bible. No really, it's biblical. Samuel L. Jackson's speech...
April 15, 2026
Smart people saying smart things (4.15.26)
Wise words from Rebecca Gordon, Radley Balko, Karen Park, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Rebecca Solnit, Timothy Schraeder...
April 14, 2026
Postcards from America (4.14.26)
"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."
April 14, 2026
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Reach out touch faith
April 13, 2026
Reconstruction, history, law, and what we want it to be
"This is a fancy way of saying that anybody who makes a historical argument for...
April 12, 2026
Sunday reading
"I am so tired of waiting, aren't you ...?"
April 10, 2026
LBCF: Hot property
Wherein the authors of Left Behind completely ignore the Rapture. The World's Worst Books have...
April 09, 2026
‘One of the good ones’ obscures a dangerous lie
Never accept the monstrous distinction between "amazing immigrants" and "criminal immigrants."
April 08, 2026
Dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right
What a decline in Rapture belief might mean for US foreign policy. Plus: Reporters, please...
April 07, 2026
The ‘pedagogy of moral accommodation’
"The system bends the conscience first, and only then the person begins speaking in its...
April 06, 2026
Is this the right room for an argument?
"Evangelicalism isn’t an identity. It’s an argument." But if so, it's an argument with a...
April 05, 2026
Sunday reading
"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent...
April 04, 2026
Let my people go. (Or else.)
What happens to a disobedient nation that mistreats the stranger? Boils, hail, locusts, darkness at...
April 03, 2026
Holy Saturday
Yesterday was this same Saturday, and so was the day before that, and the day...
April 01, 2026
Smart people saying smart things (4.01.26)
Smart words from Kevin Kruse, Ibram X. Kendi, Jelani Cobb, Rep Eveleth, Michael Waters, and...
March 2026
March 31, 2026
The RNS press release slush pile revisited
I would absolutely watch a TV series about a "crisis communications" scandal-handler for religious groups...
March 30, 2026
Bluebonnet, Beka, and Bigfoot
The Bible-infused textbooks Texas is using in public schools turn out to be full of...
March 29, 2026
Sunday reading
"you have to understand, / that no one puts their children in a boat
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