Former Southern Baptist "ethics" spokesman Richard Land is still talking. Land is still utterly baffled by the concept of consent, and he can't understand Kids These Days, with their unbiblical notions that sexual ethics should have anything to do with honesty and fidelity. Plus: A Republican governor attacks the police; another fun biblical-studies detective story; and a reminder of Sarah Palin's old Secret Service nickname (it was not "McKinley"). Read more
Jon Corvino on why renegade Kentucky clerk is not a conscientious objector. Julie Ingersoll on David Barton and Reconstructionism/dominionism. Elias Isquith on Trump and white male anxiety. Derek Penwell on fundamentalism. And T. Christian Miller's long, depressing investigation on why nobody's using ViCAP. Read more
Ed Stetzer's hasty guesstimate that 400 church leaders might possibly be resigning quickly morphed into a fact that metastasized and spread. Now lots of people "know" that "400 pastors resigned after Ashley Madison hack," even though nothing like that actually happened. Read more
"I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous." Farewell to the Wheaton grad who gave us Freddy Krueger. Also: Creationists lying about Jesus; a possible McKinley/Denali compromise; the end of August Blues; and the coolest tattoo story. Read more
CharismaNews brings us the bold prophecies of one Michael T. Snyder in his prophetic post, "10 Things That Are Going to Happen Within 15 Days of the End of the Shemitah." Here, I aim to meet his challenge with 10 prophesies of my own. Please note that my prophesies are even more concrete and specific than Snyder's list -- and every bit as meaningful. Read more
There's no scandal here. The man isn't an apostate or a heretic, a betrayer, a deceiver or a sinner. He got lonely. Treating this like a scandal is just cruel and wrong. Read more
To play up the claim that this is newsworthy, CT tries to portray this man's "fall" as part of a trend affecting all of society. That larger trend, in CT's view, doesn't have anything to do with the ongoing pattern of repressed social conservatives exposed for the hypocrisy of their private lives. Of course not. For CT, the trend can only be the same trend they see everywhere -- the narrative of decline that sees libertine liberals threatening to turn America into Sodom due to their no-co-pay birth control and their equality under the law for LGBT people. Read more
Glenn Greenwald on "journalists" against journalism. Jeet Heer and Sarah Posner on Donald Trump. Eric Foner on pseudo-politics and psycho-politics. And a Martin Luther King Jr. speech that revisionist fantasists like to pretend doesn't exist because they're too busy attributing out-of-context W.E.B. DuBois quotes to Margaret Sanger so they can play-act like they're Bonhoeffer fighting Hitler. Read more
About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the whore; moreover she is pregnant as a result of whoredom." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "It was the owner of these who made me pregnant." And she said, "Take note, please, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff." Read more
The piped-in music at the Big Box has been playing country music this week, leading to the following reflection on two distinct visions of liberation in the work of popular theologian Martina McBride. And, because I've read too many InterVarsity Press books over the years, I have included a list of questions for further discussion. Read more
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