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February 2022

February 28, 2022
White Christians argued that the Establishment Clause threatened their Free Exercise. In freaking Rhode Island.
February 28, 2022
Chapter and verse, buddy.
February 27, 2022
Imaginary monsters — other people who are imagined to favor kitten-burning or other monstrous cruelties...
February 26, 2022
The second lesson here is that briefly feeling kind of stupid can be a Good...
February 25, 2022
It is the idea that democracy means everything is subject to the will of the majority —...
February 24, 2022
When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, "so-called Web logs, or 'blogs' ..." From...
February 23, 2022
American society is marked by the otherwise inexplicable phenomenon of the haves resenting the have-nots.
February 22, 2022
Hal Lindsey, waiting on tables, a prophet's arrest record, and a timely dose of the...
February 22, 2022
I don't believe our friends are the callous, apathetic monsters they pretend to be.
February 21, 2022
In a sense, I was fumbling my way toward something like Wesley's "four-legged stool."
February 20, 2022
What does it mean that the couple at the center of this tale of abuse,...
February 20, 2022
I'm not usually a "true crime" guy, but Jason Morphew got me sucked in to...
February 20, 2022
When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, "so-called Web logs, or 'blogs' ..." From...
February 19, 2022
When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, "so-called Web logs, or 'blogs' ..." From...
February 18, 2022
MTV has been around longer than this "biblical view."
February 17, 2022
The Inquisition is back in the news. As ever, that means chaos and cruelty.
February 17, 2022
Forgot about this 2015 post when Pope Francis said the same Very Bad thing earlier...
February 16, 2022
The Slacktivixen and I are hugely grateful for the regular support many readers of this...
February 16, 2022
"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."
February 16, 2022
On learning that my daughter's public high school honors English class was teaching Ayn Rand...
February 15, 2022
Together forever like shoo-wop shoo wadda wadda yippidy boom da boom.
February 15, 2022
Teaching that "most of the people who have ever been born" were never born is...
February 14, 2022
Denying guilt and, thereby, denying responsibility and, thereby, becoming guilty.
February 13, 2022
The National Prayer Breakfast isn't even a breakfast, it's a bad $400 banquet scheduled too...
February 12, 2022
"He thinks he’s the hero of the story but he’s not," John Carpenter said. "Jack...
February 12, 2022
The law might not allow Westhampton to prohibit Orthodox Jews from building a synagogue, but...
February 11, 2022
"The story isn’t exactly subtle. Peter himself explicitly states What This Vision Means several times in...
February 10, 2022
Rules without why cannot produce ethical people, only people who are either obedient or disobedient.
February 09, 2022
I believe you should read the unbelievers at OnlySky Media. Patheos' loss is readers' gain.
February 09, 2022
Bigots don't have to be as stupid as they're choosing to be.
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