2021-08-01T07:54:19-04:00

Despair looks for excuses not to act and always finds them. Hope, it’s opposite, always chooses to act. Read more

2021-08-01T07:51:26-04:00

Bigfoot and Elvis sightings sit on the relatively benign end of the conspiracy spectrum. Because of "Them." Read more

2021-07-29T20:00:35-04:00

Having one of those days, so my brain isn't working well enough to offer more than just some links and bullet-points. Read more

2021-07-27T15:56:55-04:00

Politico exacerbates the problem of misplaced hyperpartisanship even while doing an otherwise excellent job of describing its harmful effects. Read more

2021-07-25T16:46:03-04:00

An analogy that lands a bit differently than it did before the pandemic and before the organized whitelash that turned "critical race theory" into the bogeymen of a Red Scare revival. Read more

2021-07-24T19:46:20-04:00

"Mainline Protestantism" may be declining because it is a category created in order to measure and assert that decline. Read more

2021-07-22T20:06:14-04:00

"Racial reconciliation" is, I think, a barrier to whatever it is people are hoping for when they talk about "racial reconciliation." Read more

2021-07-21T17:04:55-04:00

Reading anything in translation always requires a great deal of trust in the capability and integrity of the translators. They need to earn it. Read more

2021-07-19T15:35:20-04:00

We know only in part. And so certain knowledge cannot be the standard for determining what is really the voice of God or the command of God. Read more

2021-07-16T19:23:03-04:00

Insufficient paranoia makes one vulnerable to attack as insufficiently conservative. So there's only one direction to go. Read more


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