A white evangelical preacher could survive the scandal of getting charged with running a brothel if that preacher simply turned into an anti-abortion white evangelical Republican politician. That sounds like a joke. It's not. And it isn't funny. Read more
This is the Elmore Leonard/Frank Peretti mash-up I didn't even realize I'd been waiting for. But it's also a story that ties together all the threads connecting all that other stuff about Roy Moore, Donald Trump, Jerusalem, and the Last Days. Read more
All you need is a highlighter and a Bible and you can create your very own Antichrist check list. Your list and your speculation about the identity of the Antichrist might end up being wrong, but don't worry -- you won’t be any wronger than everyone else who’s ever played this game. Read more
"The relationship between symbols and reality here is even more fraught than the relations between Israelis and Palestinians," Gershom Gorenberg says of Jerusalem. A symbolic change in U.S. policy toward the city will bring both symbolic and real consequences. Mostly not good. Read more
Lincoln said that, of course, assuming that his listeners would agree that fooling people is Bad. But that same insight has been taken up by people for whom "fooling" others is the goal, the business model, and the political strategy. Read more
It's not that he believes something that is untrue. It's that he does not actually believe in the things he claims to believe. Read more
I'm not a stickler for enforcing the Advent/Christmas distinction outside of church. I don't want to be singing "Silent Night" in church before Christmas Eve, but I don't mind if the grocery store plays the Stevie Nicks version of it before Pearl Harbor Day. Read more
"He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." Read more
"Love come quick, love come in a hurry, there are thieves in the temple tonight." Read more
I guess how I view this long, true story depends on what kind of mood I'm in. Usually I just find it depressing -- generations of Christians at each others' throats over control of what should be a holy site. But seen another way, it's a hopeful story. Read more
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