After almost a month, my wife's COVID test finally came back negative. She's getting better. Read more
After almost a month, my wife's COVID test finally came back negative. She's getting better. Read more
"Someone's gotta say it because it's true." Read more
• Good piece from Matthew Avery Sutton, “[White] Evangelicals are one step closer to the ultimate prize: ending abortion in America.” Sutton gives a good lightning-round history of white evangelical attitudes toward legal abortion. He finds a very few early examples of evangelicals preaching abortion-is-murderism — Billy Sunday and John R. Rice. But those isolated voices weren’t so much anti-abortion as they were anti-hussy, as Sutton writes, they: “Linked abortion with promiscuous sex.” Neither Sunday nor Rice made anti-abortionism a... Read more
If someone tells you they're upset about Engel v. Vitale, then nine times out of 10 what they're really upset about is Brown v. Board of Ed. Read more
"The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia ..." Read more
Netflix's "Midnight Mass" offers a fascinating look at what it means to live in a horror story when you refuse to accept that you're living in a horror story. Read more
Notes on Tonio K., Bruce Cockburn, Amy Grant, and the Devil's music. Read more
You must always be on the lookout for what you're determined not to look at. And no one can do that all the time. Read more
"The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God," Blake said. So what is the voice of DIShonest indignation? Read more
"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Read more
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