"Do not be afraid; for see — I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord." Read more
"Do not be afraid; for see — I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord." Read more
Opposition to the burning of kittens is not what sets the members of the AKBC apart from everyone else. What sets them apart is their strange belief that they are a special, beleaguered minority. What sets them apart is their refusal and/or inability to recognize that opposition to the burning of kittens is a unanimous, universally shared opinion. Apart from the AKBC, most people don't feel a need to imagine or to pretend that there exists somewhere a vast Pro-Kitten-Burning Coalition that they must denounce as a demonstration of their moral superiority. Read more
Nobody has $116,000 lying around to buy their true love 12 days of weirdly archaic Christmas presents. You need to save your money for those big family gatherings, when three hours into the party, you're gonna need to run out to the gas station convenience store to pick up a few things we're running out of. Read more
If you saw a dozen people instantaneously vanish, leaving only a pile of clothing where they formerly stood, you would probably take a look at those piles of clothing to try to figure out what just happened. But then you're not a character in "Left Behind." ... Read more
If those early Southern Baptists were wrong about slavery, then they were wrong about the Bible -- wrong about how to read the Bible. They were wrong about slavery because they were wrong about how to read the Bible. Contemporary white evangelicals want to retain the same approach to reading the Bible, but not the same conclusions about slavery. That doesn't work. Read more
1960: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. 1961: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. 1962: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. 1963: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. 1964: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. ... Read more
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's "rapid response team" was invited by members of the Ferguson police department "to minister to police." The BGEA team says it's helping to "restore peace" to Ferguson, by which it means it's helping to calm people down, to get them to stop protesting and go back to accepting things the way they are. Read more
Kathryn Schulz on the Mann Gulph wildfire and so very much more; Ezra Klein on the torture report; W. Caleb McDaniel on the history of Eric Garner's "enough;" Stephen Prothero on the culture wars as conservative performance pieces; and Andrea Powell on the American habit of locking up victims. Read more
A new survey finds that 73 percent of Americans say they believe Jesus was born to a virgin, because that's what the Bible says, and these Americans believe the Bible is the Holy Word of God. Another new survey finds that two thirds of American Christians approve of torture. Because, apparently, American Christians don't give a withered fig about what the Bible has to say. Read more
Bruce Barnes wasn't just a pastor, traveling evangelist and biblical scholar. He was also a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, excavator, architect and locksmith. And he could carry refrigerators and convertible sofas up and down the stairs all by himself. Unfortunately, Bruce never paid much attention to seismology. Read more
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