Retailers usually start getting Christmas [stuff] in July and August. That may not happen this year. Read more

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." Read more

It used to be a lot of work coming up with the premise for a Hitchcock-style thriller, but now the most unbelievable set-up just seems realistic. Read more

Seriously, just look around. Does it look like the meek are inheriting the earth? Does it look like those who hunger and thirst for justice are being filled? Does it look like the merciful are being shown mercy? Read more

"End times fascism" is both familiar and frightening. Oh, and also, "Slings and Arrows" is now free on YouTube. Read more

There's a huge fortune to be made manufacturing tents and barbed wire and shackles and chains for the authoritarian regime. ProPublica looks at one profiteering tent-maker. Read more

"On no day will its gates ever be shut. The glory and honor of all nations will be brought into it." Read more

CPE and PSTD and why Bruce Barnes, like Tim LaHaye, could not have been a good "visitation pastor." Read more

I like the original version of the "Serenity Prayer" because it's more Niebuhrian. Read more