Dave Gushee writes about last week's Eugene Peterson debacle as someone with first-hand experience of what it's like "When the evangelical establishment comes after you." It's not a pretty story. Read more
Dave Gushee writes about last week's Eugene Peterson debacle as someone with first-hand experience of what it's like "When the evangelical establishment comes after you." It's not a pretty story. Read more
"Later, when Peter came to Antioch, I had a face-to-face confrontation with him because he was clearly out of line." Read more
In order to consider such scenes on their own terms — in order to keep turning the pages without throwing this inhuman book against the wall — we end up having to accept Left Behind’s premise that trauma does not traumatize and that human suffering is peripheral, inconsequential and meaningless. This is the book’s great moral theme, its moral instruction. Read more
Peterson heard the gatekeepers' threats and, it seems, he got "The Message." Read more
Steve King wants to pay for the "border wall" by redirecting funding from Planned Parenthood. That can only mean that the wall will need to be reimbursed for providing affordable health services to anyone who needs them. And if the wall's reimbursements depend on people being able to get there for its health services, then the border wall will need to be relocated. I like this plan. Read more
Well, I spent all day reading the news with slack-jawed astonishment. So right now, I got nothin.’ Looking forward to scoop-o’-clock later tonight. Collude amongst yourselves. Read more
Rebecca Stott talked with National Public Radio this weekend about her new memoir, In the Days of Rain: A Father, A Daughter, A Cult. The word “cult” is often misapplied, but Stott’s use of it there seems precise and accurate. She was raised in Brighton, England, among the Exclusive Brethren — a horror-show separatist sect that spun off from the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th century. “They believe in the Rapture,” Stott explains. “They believe that they alone will be... Read more
Rayford is lying about his “physical” interest in Hattie. This is the “woman he had never touched,” the woman he had fetishized like a collector, stringing her along, unopened in the original shrink-wrap packaging. Nothing has changed. He’s still playing the same kinky control game that he’s played all along. Read more
The PCA's struggles with their doctrines of male supremacy seem to be tied up with their less-explicit doctrines of white supremacy. I'm looking forward to all of the movie plots we'll be getting from the Hobby-Lobby-smuggles-artifacts-and-funds-terror story. And perhaps it's time to speak to supermarket chains about no longer assaulting their customers with the lies of the National Enquirer. Read more
"Here is a secret that is not a secret. Here is a curse that is not a curse. Revolutions are not redemption. They will not save you, just as ours did not save us back in 1896, or 1986, or 2001. It is not that revolutions are useless; it is that they are not enough. ..." Read more
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