With white pastors calling for an "American Caesar" and a "Protestant Franco," the word "antichrist" seems urgently relevant, even if many are still confused about what it means. Read more
With white pastors calling for an "American Caesar" and a "Protestant Franco," the word "antichrist" seems urgently relevant, even if many are still confused about what it means. Read more
White evangelicals are sure they can worship Donald Trump without adopting his ethos of fraudulent finance and predatory sex. How's that working out for them? Read more
The story of Frank Gaebelein, Carl Henry, Christianity Today and Selma should have ended differently. But what would that have changed? Read more
Pacific Garden is a rescue mission. The “Tribulation Force” is not. Read more
Emerged from HR/benefit nightmare limbo to check the news to see if there was any. There was. Read more
Tomorrow was supposed to be, at long last, surgery day. Tomorrow will not be surgery day. Read more
Fuller Seminary takes a tiny step forward, prepares for retreat. Plus: Moral accounting and how Bobby D. gave us BOMP bomp badda domp. Read more
Closing some tabs and clearing out some bookmarks. Read more
I don't think I really learned these stories in Sunday school either. Read more
Two recent posts over at the Anxious Bench are intimately, if accidentally, connected. The first of these is by Philip Jenkins, whose wide-ranging curiosity leads him in fascinating directions. He’s been retracing his steps, reviewing some of the disparate topics he has researched, studied, and published on throughout his career and the sometimes surprising connections among them. Jenkins’ latest post in this personal history — “To What Green Altar?” — covers his work researching the Satanic Panic of the 1980s... Read more
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