Uganda is 85-percent Christian. The U.S. is 70-percent Christian. This is not about missions or missionaries or the gospel, this is about outsourcing theocracy. And what these purported Christians are promoting in Uganda is evil. This is a tree bearing bad fruit. Read more
White evangelicals in the 1970s were upset with the U.S. Supreme Court, but that anger wasn't about Roe v. Wade or about abortion at all. That anger was about -- to borrow Ronald Reagan's preferred euphemism -- "state's rights." It was about the belief that "that we've distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment." Read more
Watching Game 7 of that World Series on television back in New Jersey, I cheered and cheered. I didn't cry at all because Wayne Garrett didn't pop out to shortstop and I get to remember 1973 exactly the way I want to, the way I wish to, just like Al Mohler does. Read more
She blinded me with linkage: Fewer Americans doubting their own experience of the climate; Rawlsian rats; green-screen creationism; giant squid; a solar-powered coal museum; 10 good reasons to look up; and a few other science-y things I thought were pretty neat. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Caleb's clan. Read more
“I commend each of you that is coming forward today for your courage. I think you do realize that by law, the Commonwealth of Virginia does not allow me to issue those marriage licenses to you,” Ferguson said. “I hope that if laws do change in the future, that you will choose to return one day to Arlington County to receive a marriage license.” Read more
It doesn’t have to be that exact word, of course, but some such indicator has to be included so that readers know what they’re reading. They need to be told the truth about whether they’re being told This Is What Happened or they’re being told This Is What We’ve Heard Happened, which is not at all the same thing. Read more
This is a deliberate lie. This is a deliberate lie that white evangelicals are eager to believe because it allows them to pretend that Planned Parenthood is utterly wicked and therefore that they, by opposing Planned Parenthood, are utterly righteous. Read more
Mike Todd posted this picture of young students in a class that meets outdoors, beneath a bridge, in a New Delhi slum. I'm reposting it here simply so I can occasionally show it to my daughters as a reminder when they have to struggle through the unpleasant parts of school. Read more
I'd second the motion to include Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" in the Christian canon. It's a prison epistle from an apostle of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is where we usually keep those. It would fit right in. Read more
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