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Last updated on: June 8, 2024 at 8:45 pm By Fred Clark

I'm feelin' thankful for the small things today. Read more

LBCF: Sorrow floats

Last updated on: June 7, 2024 at 5:40 am By Fred Clark

(Originally posted in June, 2004.) Left Behind, pp. 48-49 Rayford Steele finally reaches a pay phone and places a call to his home. He’s already read the plot summary on the back of the book and, realizing that he’s in a novel about the “Rapture,” knows that his born-again wife Irene won’t be there to answer his call: His answering machine at home picked up immediately, and he was pierced to hear the cheerful voice of his wife. “Your call is... Read more

‘False Witnesses’ revisited

Last updated on: June 6, 2024 at 5:05 pm By Fred Clark

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Since we were just discussing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s as a parallel expression of abortion-is-murder politics, here's a look back at one of the first times I explored that subject. Read more

A necessary, but usually misused, word

Last updated on: June 5, 2024 at 4:56 pm By Fred Clark

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With white pastors calling for an "American Caesar" and a "Protestant Franco," the word "antichrist" seems urgently relevant, even if many are still confused about what it means. Read more

Moderate Nazis and felonious ‘financial accountability’

Last updated on: June 4, 2024 at 4:27 pm By Fred Clark

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White evangelicals are sure they can worship Donald Trump without adopting his ethos of fraudulent finance and predatory sex. How's that working out for them? Read more