2018-09-01T17:25:21-04:00

"Do not put your trust in princes. ... The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin." Read more

2018-08-29T16:19:46-04:00

We're supposed to think it unfair that Verna would say that Buck has been "insubordinate and disrespectful" simply because he has been insubordinate and disrespectful. She's a woman, after all, and he's a male. Read more

2018-08-30T15:47:51-04:00

No, banning the cruel child abuse of "conversion therapy" does not involve black helicopters swooping in to confiscate white Christians' Bibles. And also, no, Billy Graham was not a member of the Luciferian Illuminati. Also: Pussy Riot plays a Christian music festival, and House GOP members struggle to keep tabs on their lack of oversight. Read more

2018-08-29T19:05:15-04:00

"Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you." Read more

2018-08-28T15:43:03-04:00

There seems to be a very fine line between "catch and kill" and simple blackmail. Trump apparently viewed his arrangement as the former, but it may have been more like the latter, and he just wasn't self-aware enough to notice.  Read more

2018-08-27T16:46:34-04:00

Both of these articles involve central questions of white evangelical identity and doctrine. And both are thus extremely dismaying in the same way as those surveys measuring anti-refugee attitudes and white evangelical fear of a "browning" America. Read more

2018-08-20T18:53:21-04:00

"And he must not acquire many wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself." Read more

2018-08-23T19:48:22-04:00

"Let us not become conceited," the Apostle Paul writes, "provoking and envying each other." If you sat down to write a scene in which a conceited character was driven to provoke others out of envy, you'd write something like Buck Williams in these pages. Read more

2018-08-22T17:36:13-04:00

"Those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Read more

2018-08-20T17:52:46-04:00

I'm enjoying the new "Cloak and Dagger" series, even though it doesn't require super-powers to identify and expose most people's deepest fears. Also: "De-radicalizing White People;" and the risk that a litigiously hostile bakeshop might also be likelier to spit in your food. Read more


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