American Christianity tends to be so heavenly minded it's no earthly good, and that theology isn't helping the residents of a disappearing island in the Chesapeake. Also: An idol falls in Georgia; permission to read Harry Potter; and jokes about camels. Read more
"Do not put your trust in princes. ... The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin." Read more
We're supposed to think it unfair that Verna would say that Buck has been "insubordinate and disrespectful" simply because he has been insubordinate and disrespectful. She's a woman, after all, and he's a male. Read more
No, banning the cruel child abuse of "conversion therapy" does not involve black helicopters swooping in to confiscate white Christians' Bibles. And also, no, Billy Graham was not a member of the Luciferian Illuminati. Also: Pussy Riot plays a Christian music festival, and House GOP members struggle to keep tabs on their lack of oversight. 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." Read more
There seems to be a very fine line between "catch and kill" and simple blackmail. Trump apparently viewed his arrangement as the former, but it may have been more like the latter, and he just wasn't self-aware enough to notice. Read more
Both of these articles involve central questions of white evangelical identity and doctrine. And both are thus extremely dismaying in the same way as those surveys measuring anti-refugee attitudes and white evangelical fear of a "browning" America. Read more
"And he must not acquire many wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself." Read more
"Let us not become conceited," the Apostle Paul writes, "provoking and envying each other." If you sat down to write a scene in which a conceited character was driven to provoke others out of envy, you'd write something like Buck Williams in these pages. Read more
"Those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Read more
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