"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
"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
Some were there to hold the rope, others were there to hold their cloaks. We've seen this before. Read more
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
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
"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
This is how this story ends. This is how this story always ends. Read more
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
A boy died and God Almighty — God who laid the foundation of the earth, who determined its measurements when the morning stars sang together, God who commands the morning and causes the dawn to know its place, God who bound the chains of the Pleiades and loosed the cords of Orion — wept. Read more
Charles Lindbergh was really racist in 1940, calling for the same kind of white-supremacist, whites-only laws that Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are calling for now. Read more
Today is the 41st anniversary of the publication of Hal Lindsey’s The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. It was Lindsey’s fifth book and, like the first four, it was hugely popular, spending nearly half the year on The New York Times best-seller list. Millions of white Rapture Christians read this book and trusted the “biblical prophecy” of its author, who warned that “the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it.” The... Read more
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