LBCF, No. 232: ‘LaHaye World’

Last updated on: April 19, 2019 at 2:22 pm By Fred Clark

TimLaHaye's alleged Bible prophecies can only come true in Tim LaHaye's imaginary world. They will not and cannot come true in this world, the real one we live in. Read more

It’s never wrong to hop a fence

Last updated on: April 18, 2019 at 5:09 pm By Fred Clark

American-style health insurance requires from all of us many hours of tedious, burdensome, unpaid homework. The cost of that is real, massive, and massively annoying. Read more

Ignoring hateful extremists doesn’t make them go away

Last updated on: March 26, 2022 at 12:42 pm By Fred Clark

Maybe if we ignore the influence of hateful demagogues that influence will just disappear? This approach has been tried before and it has failed, catastrophically. Read more

We need to do something about Rick Wiles

Last updated on: April 16, 2019 at 4:36 pm By Fred Clark

Rick Wiles may be a "fringe" figure, but he has a large audience of "mainstream" white evangelicals. And Rick Wiles is also a raving anti-Semite. Read more

LBCF, No. 231: ‘Anna Nicolae Carpathia’

Last updated on: April 9, 2019 at 3:40 pm By Fred Clark

This aspect of "Bible prophecy" belief — the binary division between RTCs and Everyone Else, and the stubborn refusal to acknowledge any possible significance to the differences those Others claim — has a pernicious influence on American policy. Read more

Youth culture killed my dog

Last updated on: April 11, 2019 at 3:58 pm By Fred Clark

Once upon a time there was a thing in America called the "Christian Party," which ran a candidate for president. They were Nazis. Plus: Gambling on the Lord's day, and "Bring in the candles." Read more

A First Amendment for me, but not for thee

Last updated on: April 10, 2019 at 3:09 pm By Fred Clark

Here's the story of a First Amendment dispute involving free speech that illuminates parallel First Amendment disputes involving religious liberty. Read more

Postcards from the class & culture wars (4.9.19)

Last updated on: April 9, 2019 at 2:54 pm By Fred Clark

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more

Smart people saying smart things (4.9.19)

Last updated on: April 8, 2019 at 8:01 pm By Fred Clark

Good advice from Susan Silk and Barry Goldman. Plus: John Oliver, Adam Serwer, Imani Perry, and Kyle Whitmire are pretty smart people. Read more

In the Spring, an independent contractor’s fancy turns to thoughts of taxes

Last updated on: April 8, 2019 at 8:44 am By Fred Clark

The trees in these parts are just barely almost starting to show a hint of green where the leaves will be. Until then, we have forsythia — the first big splash of spring color around here. For those of us in the gig economy, forsythia are also a portent of doom, because seeing them bust out with the most-yellow yellow of spring also means that it’s almost April 15 and the tax-bill is coming due on the “independent contractor” income... Read more

True or False: According to Romans, if God is for us, no one can be against us.