Just because the big key change in a song is cheesy, predictable, and nakedly manipulative doesn't mean it won't still get to you. Plus: Biblical literacy, an unlikely senator, and Satan's busy year. Read more
Just because the big key change in a song is cheesy, predictable, and nakedly manipulative doesn't mean it won't still get to you. Plus: Biblical literacy, an unlikely senator, and Satan's busy year. Read more
You know who's smart? Janelle Wong, Terese Marie Mailhot, William Barber, Lili Loofbourow, and Simran Jeet Singh. And they all have some smart things to say. Read more
Sometimes I have to tease out the pattern, to search the subtext and read between the lines in order to detect the ever-near shadow of the Satanic baby-killer disease that has, for centuries, been the enabling excuse used to justify and rationalize and defend oppression, recasting injustice as a sacred duty and a badge of pious virtue. Read more
Some good news about the Ebola vaccine, some nice news about churches helping people in need, and some utterly predictable news about who else gets screwed by the Trump tax cut. Read more
The strange, pointless fatalism of Tim LaHaye's eschatology is simply a reflection of a similar fatalistic pointlessness in his ecclesiology. There is nothing to be done. Read more
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Read more
Falsifiable prophets, shameless grifters, Very Silly Men, and assorted other fatbergs of the religious right. Read more
Ben Okri, Susan Shaw, Katherine Stewart, Talia Levin, and Yochai Benkler have some smart things to say. It'd be smart of us to pay attention. Read more
Between Liberty University’s CIO and Harvest Bible Church, this week would seem like a busy time for the religious right’s top “crisis management” PR guy. But it seems the religious right is going to need to find a new fixer: After nearly 30 years, a public relations agency that has acted as a powerful gatekeeper for some of the most prominent Christian faith-based organizations is closing its doors. Mark DeMoss, 56, announced in a letter to friends Tuesday (Jan. 15) he... Read more
The telephone thing is too big to ignore, but too strange to make sense of. Why telephones? What does it mean? Read more
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