The potential danger to this strategy is the remote but horrifying possibility that someone might respond, “Why, yes!" Read more
The potential danger to this strategy is the remote but horrifying possibility that someone might respond, “Why, yes!" Read more
The Satanic baby-killers have always been with us, even though they have never actually existed. This is how we pretend we are "good Christians," even if that pretense means embracing real evil. Read more
This is, among other things, the very best Personal Testimony I have ever read or heard. It is the very best example I know of the "Sinner's Prayer." And it is, in short, what I think is the clearest answer to the age-old question: "What must I do to be saved?" Read more
"A majority of white voters backed a candidate who assured them that they will never have to share this country with people of color as equals," and nothing about white Christianity as currently practiced in America makes white Christians any less susceptible to this explicitly racist con job than any other set of white citizens. Read more
"Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty — not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon." Read more
But she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die." Read more
This is not new. This is who James Dobson has always been. It is who all of the "religious right's scary, judgmental old men" have always been. Read more
It’s like a cosmic game of rock-paper-scissors. Antichrist beats human beats God beats Antichrist. This is strange theology, to say the least. Read more
White evangelical supporters of disgraced former judge Roy Moore have taken two strategies to explain why they're sticking with the Republican Senate candidate despite multiple, credible allegations that he has a long history of child molestation. Read more
Came across this today on the Twitters, an important point well-expressed by Jemar Tisby: I wish I had realized sooner how some American Christians make social justice into a boogeyman by constantly saying that such concerns "replace" the gospel. In reality, a gospel without justice is no gospel at all. — JemarTisby.Substack.com. (@JemarTisby) November 20, 2017 This bogeyman concern he refers to — the idea that justice must not “replace” the gospel — goes way back in white evangelicalism. This... Read more
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