None of this should be here — not the church secretary, not the reassuring sense of established routine, not the large congregation behaving exactly like any typical pre-Rapture, pre-cataclysm large congregation. The mundane normalcy of it all is itself surreal. Read more
Pat Robertson isn't talking about this "$100 billion worth of arms sales" as a starkly ugly fact, as a critique of American blood-money and our shared complicity in this evil. He's celebrating it as a Good Thing -- one that justifies torture and murder. Read more
Tara Isabella Burton, Heather Anne Thompson, Beth Allison Barr, Rachel Denhollander, Jia Tolentino, and Talia Lavin say smart things. There's a theme here. Read more
"A gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not rankle, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed -- what kind of gospel is that?" Read more
"Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire." Read more
C.S. Lewis, at his grumpy best, offers some of the best advice you'll ever hear about "one of the great permanent mainsprings of human action." Plus: Bible wax museums, yet another "declaration," and "Straight Talk" radio. Read more
"When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien." Read more
Five minutes on Google will find you a host of fine musical playlists for your Halloween festivities. Here's a list of 31 songs I didn't see on any of those lists. Read more
The Bible is not a primary source for premilllennial dispensational eschatology. Pieces of it — chapters, verses, words, syllables — provide a portion of the raw material, but "Bible prophecy" is not found in, and does not come from, the Bible. Read more
"It is, you might well say, an elementary matter of justice." Read more
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