The authors have placed themselves into the unenviable position of having everything they believe — about God, the Bible, the meaning of life and their place in the universe — rest upon six impossible things happening before breakfast. Thus when forced to choose between believing in those impossible things and believing in the real world as it presents itself to us all, well, to paraphrase the people of Krikkit, the real world’ll have to go. Read more
This story is horrible. It's a football hazing story. Like all such stories it's not primarily about sports, but about the way sports are infected by the same ugly toxic masculinity that pervades the rest of our culture. Read more
"But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?" Read more
My working hypothesis, formed years ago and supported by mountains of evidence observed ever since, is that good faith and political power are inversely proportionate in the anti-abortion movement. Add this to the data on that. Read more
"Hallowed by thy name," Richard Beck suggests, is a petition, not a statement of praise. It's a challenge to the so-called Almighty to put up or shut up. If that seems impertinent, it's because you're not living in exile or its aftermath. Read more
The stock corner-bar loudmouth is sometimes described as "opinionated," but that's not really true. He doesn't have opinions. He just collects Things He Says Because He Heard Other People Say Them. Read more
The authors’ disproportionate sense of the U.N.’s importance and their utter ignorance of its actual role and function cannot be easy to maintain. How do you convince yourself that a topic is of unrivaled significance while simultaneously preventing yourself from learning anything about it? Read more
This is where we run into a big problem. This is where self-censorship starts to creep in, which opens the door to a kind of duplicity. Read more
We'll return to discuss both of those challenges facing the evangelical faculty lounge. Here I just mainly wanted to point out that, yes, the faculty lounge is a real thing that really matches my description of it. And I wanted to dunk on Noah Toly. Read more
Roy Moore, the likely next senator from Alabama, is the unmasked and unmaskable face of white Christian nationalism, and thus of the Republican Party. "If there is a wasp in the room I like to be able to see it." Read more
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