2019-11-20T21:20:31-05:00

An Arizona jury does the right thing, acquitting Scott Warren of the "crime" of providing food and shelter for migrants crossing the desert. Read more

2019-11-20T10:37:17-05:00

Stephen Miller needs to be fired yesterday. This is now a partisan issue, but it is not only a partisan issue. Read more

2019-11-15T18:14:19-05:00

The impression one gets from Tribulation Force is that the "Great Tribulation" itself will be relentlessly dull — seven years of phone calls and meetings with the Human Resources department. Not a bang but a whimper. Read more

2019-11-12T19:55:13-05:00

Did Wernher von Braun become an evangelical Christian after he stopped being a Nazi? (And did he ever stop being a Nazi?) Read more

2019-11-10T19:02:14-05:00

Taking a clickbait Bible quiz to prove that you know more than "most Christians" is bad for your soul and bad for the internet. Also: Satanic baby-killers! and the utter wrongness of Sam Alito. Read more

2019-11-09T11:42:07-05:00

• Back when the “YouVersion” Bible app was first released in 2013, I mentioned that the name was an obstacle for me: “YouVersion” just calls to mind that awful “Personal Promise Bible” and the mentality that produced it. If you’re looking for a YouVersion, you’re doing it wrong. The name reminded me of the white evangelical thing where we teach kids to replace “the world” in John 3:16 with their own name: “For God so loved [Your Name Here] that he... Read more

2019-11-06T21:44:52-05:00

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Read more

2019-11-04T18:39:10-05:00

I'm less interested in any "definition" of "evangelical" than I am in the way such definitions get used to assert power. And the things that power is used to do. Read more

2019-11-01T13:06:40-04:00

It's pretty awful fiction, of course, but that doesn't matter as long as it whispers to readers that they are right while reality is shouting that they are wrong. Read more

2019-10-29T18:15:20-04:00

Embracing white evangelical culture wars and white evangelical politics, Kanye West records ... well, basically a Carman album. Read more


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