"So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known." Read more
"So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known." Read more
Bruce’s assertion there about “perilous times” in which we can’t know “how much … time we have” is another reminder of how premillennial dispensationalism is shaped by the denial of death. What mortals these fools be. Read more
The Christmas stuff starts arriving in early September. It has to because shortly after that, in early October, it's going on the shelves. Christmas "stuff" isn't what you call it, though. Read more
For both flavors of evangelical, "God Save America" means revival -- and that means ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate to confirm "conservative" judges who will restore Gilded Age jurisprudence. Read more
This is, apparently, less utterly disgraceful than the way Moore presented it. It's still disgraceful, mind you -- still indefensible, sinful, ugly and evil -- just not disgraceful in quite the way that Moore made it seem. Read more
The pastors of these churches chose, on their own, to come forward and to announce publicly that their communities are unwilling and unable to protect children, and that their churches will, in fact, eagerly defend adults who prey on them. Read more
Look again at that initial summary — “being raised in a Christian home, going to Bible college, marrying a Christian, becoming a pastor, the whole thing” — and see if even the authors themselves don’t sound a bit bored by the mundane tedium of it. Read more
Disgraced former judge Roy Moore has always seemed like a caricature of some Southern Gothic monster -- some bastard creation pieced together out of left-overs from Tennessee Williams and Flannery O'Connor and maybe a pinch of Carl Hiassen. Today we learned he's worse than we knew. Read more
Part of what the disciples were struggling with, I think, was the mistaken idea that Pentecost had to be a zero-sum game. If we start letting in the Pamphylians and Cyrenians, then won't we have to kick somebody else out to make room? Read more
The resentful right predicted a civil war on Saturday. You may have noticed that did not happen. No violence, no riots, not a single public beheading. The resentful right noticed this too, and it ticked them off. Read more
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