For all of the creepiness inherent in any ritual loyalty oath, the Pledge of Allegiance does get right something that a great deal of American culture gets very, very wrong in 2018. It specifies what the flag stands for. Read more
For all of the creepiness inherent in any ritual loyalty oath, the Pledge of Allegiance does get right something that a great deal of American culture gets very, very wrong in 2018. It specifies what the flag stands for. Read more
"Thus I will spend my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash; and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it." Read more
By outlining his prediction and prophecy timeline in such detail, LaHaye may have, unwittingly, ensured that it can never come to pass as prophesied, since the prophecy doesn't include anyone knowing about the prophecy. Read more
Smart things from Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Adam Serwer, and Toni Bond Leonard. (That's TWO Reformed theologians. I'm getting soft.) Read more
The trunk of your car is filled with several cases of, like, herbal supplements or essential oils or off-label personal hygiene products. You own this stuff now, until you manage to sell it, and nobody seems to want to buy it. Read more
• I didn’t see this Craig Ferguson monologue when it aired way back in 2007, but someone recently linked to it way down in the replies of a Twitter thread. It holds up well and remains a lovely thing. This is an example of what we might call a “personal testimony.” It’s also an example of another thing that my people like to describe as “one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.” That is to say it’s an... Read more
The actual exile of the people of Judah was really, in Tim LaHaye's view, just a metaphor — a prophetic foreshadowing of the far more important future New Babylon to be established by the Antichrist any day now. The latter is more important because it involves us. Read more
Ezra Klein: "That Republicans in this Congress have proven so subservient to — or scared of — Trump that they have let the fate of the country hinge on whether his staff can adequately distract and calm him is a subversion of the constitutional order and an abdication of responsibility." Read more
I would like to see Colin Kaepernick sign with the New York Mets. There are probably a dozen reasons why that would never happen, only some of which have to do with baseball or football. But my main reason for wanting this to happen is theological. Read more
American Christianity tends to be so heavenly minded it's no earthly good, and that theology isn't helping the residents of a disappearing island in the Chesapeake. Also: An idol falls in Georgia; permission to read Harry Potter; and jokes about camels. Read more
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