"Dozens of people on the plane have mysteriously disappeared. How many, exactly? And who were they? Hattie, the flight attendant responsible for those passengers, doesn't know. Buck, the journalist reporting on the disappearances, doesn't know." Read more
The wit and wisdom of senators, governors, presidential candidates and state representatives, from the party that wants to outlaw yoga pants, expand Guantanamo, redefine rape, and make sure that all of our small children are safely implanted. Read more
The oldest English translations of the Bible have unicorns in them. The original Hebrew texts did not. So where did those King James Version unicorns come from? From translators' best guess at the meaning of a word that still leaves us guessing. Read more
Why Al Mohler is jealous of the LDS church. How West Virginia Republicans are marking the one-year anniversary of a toxic spill. Another Republican thinks identifying with Time-Warner Cable and Comcast will win voters' hearts. And a reminder to never try to say anything about the doctrine of the Trinity. Read more
Please join me in reading Buzzfeed's profile of "men's rights" champion Paul Elam. American conservatives do not like journalists and aid-workers. Why it's dangerous to say "secular" when you actually mean "profane." Plus more bad religious comic books, Captain Jack, and what "Caddyshack" can teach us about American history. Read more
Molly Worthen, James Baldwin, Jeet Heer, and Natasha Chart all, in different ways, reflect on the "great emotional and intellectual dishonesty" of the middle of the road. Read more
So from now on, when Bryan Fischer arrives at the American Family Association studio in the AFA headquarters to produce his daily AFA radio show on behalf of the AFA, the AFA wants you to know that he probably doesn't speak for them, unless he does. Read more
The following is a work of fanfiction -- a mash-up of two of the most appalling things I have ever read: Chapter 14 of Nicolae and Chapter 5 of the book of Numbers (which I quote from here in the New King James translation preferred by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins). This is my idea of how this passage in Nicolae might have read if Rayford Steele stuck to a truly biblical view on abortion. Read more
Ask a 21st-century American Christian if getting a tattoo is a sin, it's far less likely that they will respond by citing Paul's argument in Romans or Galatians and far more likely they'll respond by babbling about "ceremonial laws" or some other contemporary concoction that would've left Paul bewildered to hear of it. There's an old saying that if one student fails the final exam, it's their fault, but if every student fails the final, then it's their teacher's fault. So maybe that's true here too. Maybe the Apostle Paul was just a lousy writer. Read more
What we see here, in other words, is the kind of stupidity that we might expect from people with a diminished mental capacity, yet it comes from people who otherwise show that they do not have a diminished mental capacity. What they're displaying, then, is not a lack of mental capacity, but a rejection of it. They are choosing to be stupid -- choosing to behave as though they were stupid. Read more
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