Laura Robinson on why Screwtape is so good and its imitators are so bad. Plus some grave visits and that discussion of Pentecostal historiography you've all been waiting for. Read more

In which I regret never getting to ask our old family friend Missionary Bob about his potential connections to the Romanian Revolution. Read more

Walter Sobchak was right to find nihilists deplorable, but he was wrong to think they're not dangerous. Read more

In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand that I did not understand that at all. Read more

"The AI Bible is run by Pray.com ..." and the rest of the story, as hard to imagine as that is, gets worse from there. Read more

Right now we have a government intent on doing many, many things no legitimate government can or should ever have permission to do. Our job is to deny them that permission in every way we can. Read more

Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants. Read more

The books of Amos and Isaiah are likely the oldest books in our Bibles. Here we find the very first thing that God has to say to us: Seek justice. Read more

The words "justice" and "righteousness" could not be allowed to remain similar in meaning by people wanting to regard themselves as righteous while avoiding justice. Read more

The scene here is a blandly typical revival meeting, which might make sense if every character in this story hadn't just lost all of their children. Read more