The Netflix series based on the Pulitzer-winning article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" forces us to see something unbearable, but also points to a better way. (It's really good.) Read more
The Netflix series based on the Pulitzer-winning article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" forces us to see something unbearable, but also points to a better way. (It's really good.) Read more
While my brother, to this day, has never explicitly admitted nor categorically denied it, it was always widely assumed that he was behind the "Painters for Christ." Read more
The sexual "purity culture" embraced by white evangelicals can't be separated from the sex-obsessed, all-American ideology of racial purity. Read more
(Me and the blog, both.) Read more
Once again, what these books portray as "prophecy come to life" is a mass of implausibilities and impossibilities that require a world filled with humans who behave in ways that no humans ever have or ever would. Read more
Looking for America in the Bible isn't merely a howling anachronism, it's a narcissism that won't allow readers to seek or to find anything but their own reflection. Read more
"They get mad. They get so mad." We can't avoid their defensive anger, so let's lean into it. Plus: Jerry Jr., the Free Tract Society, and anachronistic Bible-reading. Read more
Speaking ill of the dead after a selfish, harmful life, Dickens saw, was essential because it was true and because it demonstrated to those still living such lives the urgency of their need for repentance. Read more
C.S. Lewis' devilish narrator explained why "edgy" and "politically incorrect" comics aren't actually funny. Read more
When the big finale of your romantic comedy interlude ends with the guy chuckling while the girl weeps, humiliated, I think you're doing it wrong. Read more
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