This is revelation, apocalypse, the upending of a beastly system. The stars won’t fall from the heavens and the seas won’t turn to blood, but for a lot of people it’s going to feel like that. Read more
October 23, 2020
Key findings about religion and ‘abortion’ politics
October 23, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
October 16, 2020
Ira Einhorn and the politics of Jesus
October 16, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
The good news is that I didn’t find anything insightful, inspirational, or influential in Ira Einhorn’s book. The bad news is that John Howard Yoder’s book changed my life. Read more
October 15, 2020
The Gary M. Heidnik Student Life Center
October 15, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
Gary Heidnik was arrested after one of his captives escaped in 1987, exactly 100 years after Southern seminary founder James Petigru Boyce published his Abstract of Systematic Theology. Those names belong together. Read more
October 14, 2020
‘Originalism’ denies — and despises — the ‘new birth of freedom’
October 14, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
An originalist who disregards the second founding and the Reconstruction Amendments is basically someone who tells you a butterfly is not a butterfly because caterpillars don’t have wings. Read more
October 12, 2020
Yes, it’s a serious threat
October 12, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
Just because the white supremacist terrorists in Michigan weren’t remotely capable of succeeding in their plan to overthrow the state government doesn’t mean they weren’t capable of killing a whole lot people in their efforts to do so. Read more
October 6, 2020
White evangelicals and QAnon (cont’d.)
October 6, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
“I think that because it’s such a conservative area — and the fact that there was a popular movement and reaction to all the police brutality, that they couldn’t straight up say, ‘no, we’re anti-BLM’ — they kind of had to grasp onto this other basically fake story to make it seem like they are the ethical crusaders.” Read more
October 5, 2020
I want everyone to get better
October 5, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
Donald Trump now has a potentially deadly disease for which we do not yet have a cure, but this is still the least of his problems. So what could it possibly mean to “wish him well”? Read more
September 29, 2020
I ain’t got no home in this world anymore
September 29, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
Three stories about people who don’t know what “politics” means. Plus: Free spiritual advice, and the news from Keene, N.H. Read more
September 29, 2020
‘They’re all hustlers’
September 29, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
Donald Trump desperately needs to regard religious leaders as nothing more than, in his words, “hustlers” who are “full of shit.” He finds grifters and frauds reassuring. Read more
September 25, 2020
Religion is not spell-casting
September 25, 2020 By Fred Clark
0 Comments
“I’m terribly sorry,” God says. “I have to send you to Hell for eternity because 30 years ago a deacon used a first-person PLURAL pronoun instead of a first-person singular pronoun.” Read more
get the latest from
slacktivist
Sign up for our newsletter
POPULAR AT PATHEOS Progressive Christian
Browse Our Archives
TRENDING AT PATHEOS Progressive Christian
