If you're claiming "I'm not a racist, I'm just upset that black schools are taking all our money to buy party buses," then we both know both parts of that sentence are false. Plus: Bret Easton Ellis is still Bret Easton Ellis. Read more
If you're claiming "I'm not a racist, I'm just upset that black schools are taking all our money to buy party buses," then we both know both parts of that sentence are false. Plus: Bret Easton Ellis is still Bret Easton Ellis. Read more
Ian Millhiser, Hugo Black, Bernadette Devlin, Sarah Posner and Nesrine Malik have some smart things to say. Read more
What to do in the unlikely event that someone asks you to sign their Bible. Plus, sorting out various sorts of evangelical grifters, and more fine music from Middlesex County. Read more
Buck Williams meets the Antichrist (again) and nothing happens (again). And we discuss evangelicals' confused obsession with "absolute morality." Read more
The Christian Post extols white evangelicals' ideal model for good, Christian "pro-family" government: Viktor Orban of Hungary. Read more
"In this mode — as a synecdoche for depravity-that-must-be-stamped-out — the charge of child sacrifice thrives, with varying degrees of subtlety and transformation, in our contemporary discourse." Read more
We cannot believe them not just because what they are telling us is false -- wildly, obviously, demonstrably false -- but because we cannot believe that they believe it themselves. Read more
Easter wreaths are not and should not be a thing. Also: The theological aftermath of WWI (and Prohibition); rendering unto We, the People; and ghastly thoughts of blackmail. Read more
Buck Williams heroically risks everything, walking into the lair of the Antichrist just so that he can try to save Hattie Durham. And then he doesn't. He doesn't even try. Read more
Even Stephen Schwartz initially flopped when he tried to stage a musical about Adam and Eve, so it's not surprising that an evangelical church went bankrupt trying to compose and produce their own big-budget "arena spectacular" based on the story. Read more
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