Buck Williams is a Very Bad journalist. And also something of a Very Bad person. Read more
Buck Williams is a Very Bad journalist. And also something of a Very Bad person. Read more
Catholic voters in Pennsylvania may no longer view clergy abuse as a liberal-media witch-hunt. If the blame for abuse shifts to where it belongs -- on the abusers and the bishops who shielded them -- then it will be harder for those bishops to instruct laypeople to obediently vote the way they're told. Plus: RIP Eugene Peterson, RIP Pat Robertson's followers, and a Doris Day number for Anton LaVey. Read more
Richard Beck has me revisiting some bloody hymns. “I know these blood-themed hymns are currently out of favor,” he writes. “They are theologically ‘problematic’ for many.” Well, yes. But the biggest problem with some of them is that they’re not a much bigger problem. Let’s look at my favorite of the bunch — “Power in the Blood.” This is such a well-known and well-loved hymn that Michael Gerson and George W. Bush worked into into a classic dog-whistle for Bush’s... Read more
Back on nightshift for a few weeks doing "inventory prep" at the Big Box. We are counting everything. Everything must be counted! Read more
The spotted lanternfly is pretty. I've noticed this every time I've killed one, which is quite a bit lately from here in southeastern Pennsylvania, inside the quarantine zone for these exotic invasive pests. Read more
For Steve King himself, these two things are not separate and they cannot be separated. For King, anti-abortionism is a necessary complement to white nationalist racism Read more
"Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord." Read more
Scott Warren has a far-stronger religious liberty claim than any of the various successful such claims upheld by the courts in recent years. But that won't matter, because it's not the partisan Republican religion recognized by partisan Republican judges. Read more
None of this should be here — not the church secretary, not the reassuring sense of established routine, not the large congregation behaving exactly like any typical pre-Rapture, pre-cataclysm large congregation. The mundane normalcy of it all is itself surreal. Read more
Pat Robertson isn't talking about this "$100 billion worth of arms sales" as a starkly ugly fact, as a critique of American blood-money and our shared complicity in this evil. He's celebrating it as a Good Thing -- one that justifies torture and murder. Read more
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