"Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims -- Laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you?" Read more
Broadly speaking, Big Box customers fall into two categories: People who are looking for a specific thing, and people who are Just Looking. I think it's important for retail salespeople to respect Just Looking. Read more
There's a widening gulf between missionaries and the churches back home who support them. Most American Christians don't understand what, how, or why those missionaries are doing what they actually do. And they likely wouldn't approve of it if they did. Read more
One Sunday when I was a kid, Pastor Stady announced that our church had the opportunity to sponsor a family of "boat people." And our very white fundie, very white Republican congregation was thrilled to do it. Read more
Same title. Same premise. Very similar End Times check list. But this book barely registered when it was published in 1969. Read more
Mike Pence takes a spectacular swing-and-miss at using the Bible to defend his buddy Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-asylum, anti-family, anti-children policy. Read more
I've got your back now. You'd better have mine. Read more
Fea is simply stating how it is, not necessarily how it ought to be. He's descriptive, where Jeffress is prescriptive. But they're in agreement on the function of white evangelical abortion politics. Read more
"The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones." Read more
"A Thief in the Night" Thief was relentlessly preachy, but you sensed that these were people who were really trying to save you from hellfire and damnation. "Left Behind" is preachy too, but the point of its sermonizing is that you deserve hellfire and damnation, and the filmmakers are happy about that. Read more
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