Critics say praising Hitler might not be good

Last updated on: January 22, 2021 at 12:37 pm By Fred Clark

Why would you think "Warwick cafe owners criticized for online remarks" was a better headline that "Warwick cafe owners praise Hitler"? Read more

Gravity always wins

Last updated on: January 22, 2021 at 11:25 am By Fred Clark

At the age of 16, going on 17, Liesl von Trapp was already wiser than the both-sidesism of NPR. Didn't anybody learn anything from "The Sound of Music"? Read more

I can see us sittin’ round the table

Last updated on: January 19, 2021 at 7:07 pm By Fred Clark

In the final week of his disastrous presidency, Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Fred Clark. Allow me to explain ... Read more

‘I fired them deacons’

Last updated on: November 20, 2024 at 5:13 pm By Fred Clark

"Once I found out what bothered them people, I preached the same message every Sunday. It didn't take much time before I had that church preached down to four." Read more

The lynch mob

Last updated on: January 19, 2021 at 3:00 pm By Fred Clark

Some were there to hold the rope, others were there to hold their cloaks. We've seen this before. Read more

‘Thou art the man’

Last updated on: January 15, 2021 at 12:12 pm By Fred Clark

Sen. James Lankford, a Southern Baptist pastor, gets called out for his efforts to disenfranchise millions of Black voters (which is illegal and a sin and really, really racist, as well as emboldening insurrectionists). Read more

C.S. Lewis is still right — gullibility has nothing to do with it

Last updated on: January 13, 2021 at 4:29 pm By Fred Clark

Ed Stetzer, a Southern Baptist and now the head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, is calling for “An Evangelical Reckoning on Trump.” I do not want to discourage Stetzer from saying what he says in this interview with NPR. And he deserves credit for having spoken this candidly throughout the past five years. What he says here is important and necessary: I think the scandal of the evangelical mind today is the gullibility that so many have... Read more

On folly again [Daltrey scream]

Last updated on: January 12, 2021 at 12:17 pm By Fred Clark

"Folly can be overcome, not by instruction, but only by an act of liberation; and ... in the great majority of cases inward liberation must be preceded by outward liberation, and that until that has taken place, we may as well abandon all attempts to convince the fool." Read more

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows

Last updated on: January 10, 2021 at 5:44 pm By Fred Clark

This is how this story ends. This is how this story always ends. Read more

It’s been … one week

Last updated on: January 9, 2021 at 2:45 pm By Fred Clark

The pace of events -- multiple severe crises all demanding urgent attention -- is just overwhelming. I'm struggling to absorb what I'm seeing and to make sense of it. Read more