2019-02-25T18:18:29-05:00

Simple math suggests that dark-chocolate Almond Joys ought to exist. But, alas, for now they exist only in theory. Read more

2019-02-24T17:53:48-05:00

Climate researchers say that by the time my daughters are the age I am now, Philadelphia is going to feel like Memphis. (Alas, without inheriting that city's music and food.) Plus: Religious liberty, Space Mountain spies, the forgotten Temple, and the trajectory of all conspiracy theories. Read more

2019-02-22T12:46:38-05:00

The authors’ Jesus, in other words, corrects what they perceive as the errors of the Jesus of the Gospels. Jesus 1.0 rejected the temptation of power. Jesus 2.0, they say, will return to seize power with relish. Read more

2019-02-21T18:09:24-05:00

"You say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'" Read more

2019-02-20T14:51:44-05:00

"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey!" Read more

2019-02-18T11:41:51-05:00

"He couldn't have done this without them" wasn't specifically a statement about clergy abuse, but it sure fits. Warning: This post contains upper male Smurf nudity and is rated FeFeFe, HoHoHo, and ACapACapACap. Read more

2019-02-16T17:44:26-05:00

Thomas Cranmer, Gabrielle Bellot and William Lindsey. Plus Stephanie Krehbiel on how "godly" men need to sit down, shut up, and for God's sake learn to trust and listen to women like Dina Zirlott. Read more

2019-02-15T12:58:21-05:00

Buck, the author’s ideal of a real, true Christian, stridently argues against sharing food with the hungry. Feeding the hungry in Africa or Russia is, to Buck, the nightmare scenario -- an evil plot of the Antichrist. Read more

2019-02-14T14:32:58-05:00

"It is categorically not legal to own a tiger within the Houston city limits." Plus: Reviving the "white slavery" panic; a megachurch thing; sustainable agriculture; and as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Read more

2019-02-13T18:03:29-05:00

We tend to be more willing to forgive people like Edwards and Whitefield for being disgracefully wrong than we are to forgive people like Benjamin Lay for being defiantly right. Read more

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