This sort of obvious wrongness can’t really be called misapprehension. It’s more like a kind of non-apprehension — a stubborn refusal to apprehend. Read more
This sort of obvious wrongness can’t really be called misapprehension. It’s more like a kind of non-apprehension — a stubborn refusal to apprehend. Read more
I have a suspicion about the origins of “woke” that I haven’t been able to confirm. My guess is that it started in the black church. The full associated phrase — “Get woke, stay woke” — just sounds preacherly. More specifically, it sounds like somebody got started on a sermon on Ephesians 5 and then got rolling. But I haven’t found any confirmation of that. Before the term got conscripted and corporatized, overused and appropriated, and just generally beaten beyond... Read more
The story of every "ex-gay ministry" begins exactly the same way and ends exactly the same way. Read more
Anthea Butler’s NBC News op-ed — “White evangelicals love Trump and aren’t confused about why. No one should be.” — is going to upset a lot of readers. That’s a good thing, because Butler is speaking urgent, unvarnished truth. The stark bluntness of that truth, though, is going to make what she’s saying difficult to hear — especially for the white evangelicals she’s talking about. They’re going to be indignantly defensive about this. That’s not unusual, of course — indignant... Read more
Apart from the awful rom-com subplot, this book is just characters talking to their bosses at work. It should've been titled "See Me in My Office As Soon As You Get In." Read more
The Trump administration is further slashing America's hospitality to refugees -- and thereby destroying refugee resettlement agencies, probably beyond repair. Read more
"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow." Read more
An open thread and a reminder of the strangely relevant "Stennis compromise." Read more
You'd be smart to listen to Kate Marvel, Zak Cheney-Rice, Damon Young, Michael Twitty, and Ana Lucia Araujo. Read more
Falwell's loudest, angriest denials focused on an "accusation" that didn't involve any harm or wrongdoing. But he had to pretend he did not commit a pretend sin. Read more
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