Pastor Mark is basically Martin Niemoller circa 1924. He has no gospel, no Bible, no truth that requires him to challenge Nazism, so he doesn't. Read more
Pastor Mark is basically Martin Niemoller circa 1924. He has no gospel, no Bible, no truth that requires him to challenge Nazism, so he doesn't. Read more
Distancing yourself from this statement, apologizing to those disrespected, and making it clear that you understand such praise to be ridiculously inaccurate is the bare minimum behavior we would expect from any decent, rational, non-depraved individual. Read more
The Lutherans have kind of been on a roll lately. That ought to be bigger news. Plus: Righteous gemstones, irreplaceable mud, and toxic orange muck. Read more
Culottes! They're not just the spork of the sartorial world, they're also a very telling signifier for a particular brand of white American fundamentalist Christianity. Read more
A white evangelical minister summarizes Trump-loving white evangelicalism after his arrest for battery: "I can say whatever I want, to whoever I want!" Read more
Robert Jeffress would really hate "The Hiding Place." Plus: Why breakfast at IHOP is better than the National Prayer Breakfast. Read more
Taking the Lord's name in vain isn't about what you say when you stub your toe. It's about piously neglecting "justice and the love of God." Read more
The flowers don't belong in the trash. They belong in the compost pile. Even if the world is going to end in seven years. Read more
If Donald Trump is not pursuing a white supremacist herrenvolk ethnostate, then he's pretending to do so to protect his secret identity as a superhero battling Satanic baby-killers. Read more
• This is what we evangelical Christian types call a “personal testimony.” And it’s a personal testimony told in the pages of a newspaper because it was never invited or permitted or made welcome to be told in church. Let he who has ears to hear listen (male pronoun deliberate and necessary there). • That testimony is very much related to this USAToday infographic on “Abortion views by religious groups.” That graphic uses data from a 2014 survey, but it’s not... Read more
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