Pacific Garden is a rescue mission. The “Tribulation Force” is not. Read more
Pacific Garden is a rescue mission. The “Tribulation Force” is not. Read more
Emerged from HR/benefit nightmare limbo to check the news to see if there was any. There was. Read more
Tomorrow was supposed to be, at long last, surgery day. Tomorrow will not be surgery day. Read more
Fuller Seminary takes a tiny step forward, prepares for retreat. Plus: Moral accounting and how Bobby D. gave us BOMP bomp badda domp. Read more
Closing some tabs and clearing out some bookmarks. Read more
I don't think I really learned these stories in Sunday school either. Read more
Two recent posts over at the Anxious Bench are intimately, if accidentally, connected. The first of these is by Philip Jenkins, whose wide-ranging curiosity leads him in fascinating directions. He’s been retracing his steps, reviewing some of the disparate topics he has researched, studied, and published on throughout his career and the sometimes surprising connections among them. Jenkins’ latest post in this personal history — “To What Green Altar?” — covers his work researching the Satanic Panic of the 1980s... Read more
Take time to listen to John Washington, Atrios, Joey Cochran, Kristin Du Mez, Osita Nwavenu, two Florida newspapers, and Nadija Reiser. Read more
The 12 commandments mandated for Louisiana schools are not from the Bible. They're from a 1950s promotional campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Read more
Our heroes watch the Rapture on television while our narrator assures us that all fetuses go to Heaven. Read more
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