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I wish that someone could hug you

March 1, 2018 By Fred Clark

White evangelicals are complicit in the evil of Jennings v. Rodriguez just as they are complicit in the evil of Shelby County. A tree that bears such evil fruit should be cut down and cast on the fire. Plus: Facebook optimization is a fantasy; Eric Metaxas is a silly man; and Focus on the Family is now a “church.” Read more

The full treatment

February 28, 2018 By Fred Clark

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White evangelical scholars are suspicious of any hermeneutic of suspicion, and thus are insufficiently suspicious of themselves. Read more

It’s always the other way around

February 27, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Burton calls Graham “a religious leader whose convictions informed his politics, and not the other way around.” Would that this distinction were so easy to make, or to practice. Graham didn’t do this. Nobody does. Read more

‘I really believe I’d run in there’

February 26, 2018 By Fred Clark

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It works like this: 1. I am a hero because I’m opposed to the imaginary Satanic baby-killers who are, by definition, the greatest evil of our time. 2. This makes me the equivalent (at least) of the heroes of other times who opposed the greatest evils of their day. 3. Therefore, when I read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie Ten Boom, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anne Hutchinson, Jesus, or Robin Hood, I’m really reading about myself and… Read more

I will be your father figure, put your tiny hand in mine

February 26, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Maybe the best way to understand that is to think of Graham not as a great thinker or teacher (which he really wasn’t), but as a father figure. Billy Graham is the Daddy of white evangelicalism. Read more

Sunday favorites

February 25, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“Your wrath has come, and the time for … rewarding your servants and for destroying those who destroy the earth.” Read more

LBCF, No. 173: ‘The hidden display’

February 23, 2018 By Fred Clark

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It’s hard to worry about the Antichrist;s nefarious Master Plan, though, when he can’t even put together a proper seating chart. Read more

Billy Graham is dead

February 22, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Millions were “saved” through Graham’s evangelism — many of them more than once. But if Graham’s evangelism produced converts, we have to ask what it was these folks were converted to. Read more

Beyond belief

February 21, 2018 By Fred Clark

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It’s about allegiance, not facts. He isn’t trying to describe an objective reality; he is proclaiming a subjective reality — proclaiming an identity based on that subjective reality. Read more

A February fundraiser

February 20, 2018 By Fred Clark

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I don’t plan on making this a regular monthly feature, but just now we’re in a bit of a temporary crunch with the Slacktivixen out of work for a few weeks. So if you are willing and able to do so, this would be an excellent time to contribute to this site through PayPal. Read more