Jesus was not a Jeep commercial. Plus: A strange guest star, a strange arrest, and a strange habit of "savvy" pundits. Read more
Jesus was not a Jeep commercial. Plus: A strange guest star, a strange arrest, and a strange habit of "savvy" pundits. Read more
What exactly is the market for minimum-strength relief? Plus: A twisted tale from the SBC; supersessionst shofars; and bribery solicitations that legal experts say may run afoul of laws forbidding soliciting bribes. Read more
From the perspective of normative white Christianity, Isaiah is urging God's people to abandon religion entirely, deconverting to an apparently "secular" scheme of social justice. Read more
Lucas Kwong, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ari Berman, Carol Anderson, Rabbi Danya Rutenberg, and Dan Froomkin have some smart things to say. Read more
That's the hardest part of the Copernican revolution -- recognizing that the place we were born and the version of faith we were baptized into isn't the unmovable center of everything. Read more
The pointless absurdity of Georgia Republicans' new Jim Crow voter-prevention scheme is part of the point, but photo-ID by mail is still laughably dumb. Also: "Ain't gonna study war no more," and Franklin Graham and the anti-vaxxers. Read more
"Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow." Read more
If you're going to swear an oath, don't put your hand on a book that forbids swearing oaths. Plus: What conspiracy theorists are afraid of; and Why we say "Resign, Ted" even though he lacks the decency to do that. Read more
A white pastor asks "How can we move forward together?" with insurrectionists, white supremacists, and antisemites. Because he thinks we should do that. Read more
“Study reveals half of pastors say they’re hearing conspiracy theories in their churches.” This is an interesting, but frustrating survey in that it doesn’t tell us much about what kind of conspiracy theories these folks find circulating in their churches. I’d guess they mean things like Q-Anon, Krakenolotary, covid-denialism and the like, but the survey didn’t get into that, so we can’t say. They’re not just on friends’ and family members’ Facebook pages or weird corners of the internet. About... Read more
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