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Steve King can explain his abortion politics in 14 words

October 22, 2018 By Fred Clark

For Steve King himself, these two things are not separate and they cannot be separated. For King, anti-abortionism is a necessary complement to white nationalist racism Read more

Sunday favorites

October 21, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.” Read more

A test case to see if ‘religious liberty’ applies to anything other than Republican politics

October 20, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Scott Warren has a far-stronger religious liberty claim than any of the various successful such claims upheld by the courts in recent years. But that won’t matter, because it’s not the partisan Republican religion recognized by partisan Republican judges. Read more

LBCF, No. 206: ‘Meta-New Hope Village Church’

October 19, 2018 By Fred Clark

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None of this should be here — not the church secretary, not the reassuring sense of established routine, not the large congregation behaving exactly like any typical pre-Rapture, pre-cataclysm large congregation. The mundane normalcy of it all is itself surreal. Read more

God and Mammon: This isn’t a rule you have to obey, it’s just how it works

October 18, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Pat Robertson isn’t talking about this “$100 billion worth of arms sales” as a starkly ugly fact, as a critique of American blood-money and our shared complicity in this evil. He’s celebrating it as a Good Thing — one that justifies torture and murder. Read more

Smart people saying smart things (10.17.18)

October 17, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Tara Isabella Burton, Heather Anne Thompson, Beth Allison Barr, Rachel Denhollander, Jia Tolentino, and Talia Lavin say smart things. There’s a theme here. Read more

They have a value you can’t see

October 16, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“A gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not rankle, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what kind of gospel is that?” Read more

Postcards from the class & culture wars (10.15.18)

October 15, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire.” Read more

The Inner Ring

October 15, 2018 By Fred Clark

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C.S. Lewis, at his grumpy best, offers some of the best advice you’ll ever hear about “one of the great permanent mainsprings of human action.” Plus: Bible wax museums, yet another “declaration,” and “Straight Talk” radio. Read more

Sunday favorites

October 14, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien.” Read more