Tina Beattie on the Irish referendum. Jason Johnson on Starbucks and white spaces. Sam Washington on the whiteness of white evangelicalism. Laura Bullard on #ChurchToo. Read more
Tina Beattie on the Irish referendum. Jason Johnson on Starbucks and white spaces. Sam Washington on the whiteness of white evangelicalism. Laura Bullard on #ChurchToo. Read more
The crowd for the Eagles Super Bowl parade was much, much larger than the crowd for Donald Trump's poorly attended inauguration. Also: A theodicy of Dr. Strange; laying the groundwork for tyranny; and breaking into the wrong $#*@ rec room. Read more
The youth ministers told us that "After you die, God will replay your whole life on a giant projector screen in the afterlife and all humans ever will see your secret sins." I don't think the youth ministers thought this through. Read more
Tim LaHaye’s theology and the awkward plot Jerry Jenkins has constructed for it simply do not allow for humanity to rage against or to question or to negotiate with God. “Cruciatus in crucem” — “to Hell with your punishments” — is not a phrase anyone in "Left Behind: The Movie" is allowed even to think, much less to say. Read more
The same folks who advocate the perspicuity of scriptures always wind up clarifying what it clearly says with ever-expanding Statements of Faith. Plus: Trump's MRA puppet; selective inerrancy, and "Why the Catholic Church Lost in Ireland." Read more
The deeply frustrating thing about this genre of alternate histories is something neither Gehrz nor Klein mentions in their discussions of Philip Roth's novel: It already did happen here. "It" is American history. Read more
Hurricane Maria killed 64 Americans in Puerto Rico. The belated, inadequate, incompetent, indifferent, and corrupt response of the Trump Administration killed more than 4,000 more. Read more
"Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more
"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. ..." Read more
The Rapture would be devastatingly traumatic on a global scale, but despite that — or maybe because of it — there would be dozens of tasteless, heartless Event jokes circulating before the first 24 hours had passed. Read more
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