What does this very strange story/folklore/doctrine of the "Harrowing of Hell" tell us that Jesus was up to down there? It says he plowed through the place, raking it to pieces, pillaging and plundering and leaving it forever traumatized. Read more
What does this very strange story/folklore/doctrine of the "Harrowing of Hell" tell us that Jesus was up to down there? It says he plowed through the place, raking it to pieces, pillaging and plundering and leaving it forever traumatized. Read more
"So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." Read more
Yesterday was this same Saturday, and so was the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that. Why should we expect that tomorrow will be any different? Read more
The post-Rapture world portrayed in Left Behind is exactly the same as the pre-Rapture world. The disappearance of 2 billion people — including every child on the planet — hasn’t changed anything at all. Read more
"Pancho needs your prayers, it's true. But save a few for Lefty too." Because on Maundy Thursday, we're not Pancho. We're Lefty. Read more
Professors' attempted edgelord newsletter falls flat at Christian college, where students are left wondering how a bunch of dim Bannonites ever got hired. Plus: Sex-trafficking cult story rules out "Smallville" binge-watch; a 19th-century school shooting; and, yeah, I really like a Selena Gomez song, fight me. Read more
Young-earth creationism is a cruelly efficient machine for manufacturing spiritual crisis. It has created more atheists than all of Richard Dawkins' books put together. Read more
The NRB's creation myth wants you to read the word "evangelical" and think of Billy Graham. To understand what really happened, you should read that word and think of Curtis Howe Springer. Read more
"There are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences." Read more
Jemar Tisby, Kurt Vonnegut, Emma Gonzalez, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Tom Scocca, and Robyn Pennacchia. Read more
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