Loretta is dealt a horrible blow by the hand of God so she rushes off to the church to apologize, to say she's sorry for what she made him do and to promise that she'll never make him lose his temper like that again. Read more
Loretta is dealt a horrible blow by the hand of God so she rushes off to the church to apologize, to say she's sorry for what she made him do and to promise that she'll never make him lose his temper like that again. Read more
The surprising thing about the 2016 presidential campaign so far is the strange absence of time-travelers from the future arriving in a desperate bid to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. This would seem to prove that either: A) Trump is going to lose in November; or B) time travel is impossible and will never be invented. Read more
An election-year reminder from Harold Pollack and Tony Kushner. "Listen, here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future." Read more
Yes, steroids account for much of the home-run surge in the Major Leagues in the 1990s, but this rewriting of the record books also happened just after baseballs themselves physically changed. That change wasn't due to steroids, but to the anti-labor practices of multinational corporations and to the clash between liberation theology and American colonialism. Also: "Confederate Flag Day" in Gettysburg; David French hates poor people; the future of the Sanders revolution; and William Henry Harrison -- the musical. Read more
Marco Rubio got it backwards in his concession speech when he warned that "the politics of resentment" could produce "a nation where people literally hate each other because they have different political opinions." It's the other way around -- those politics of resentment means that those political opinions are the result of people literally hating each other. Read more
Rick Scarborough seems shocked that many white evangelical Christians have had abortions or know someone who has. He regards this as a sudden and very recent development. It's not. These folks have always been there -- in white evangelical churches and institutions. Read more
The strange thing about the hymn "I Love to Tell the Story" is that it never actually tells the story. Rayford never actually tells that story either. Like the hymn, he insists that the telling of it is very important, but no one listening to his alleged explanation of "the way of salvation" will wind up any closer to understanding that than before he started. Read more
Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Read more
This is not, technically speaking, a recipe for pie. But a good apple crisp is pie-like, and usually liked by those who like pie. And who doesn't like pie? Read more
Failing the clearest moral test of your time and culture is only a problem so long as that moral test is what people are talking about and thinking about. So talk about something else. If you've made yourself a moral pariah because you've spent the past three decades fighting a rear-guard battle in defense of systemic, violent, oppressive injustice, then you need to find some other subject on which you can cast yourself as the Good Guy -- as the heroic champion of morality. Read more
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