2012-10-20T12:19:33-04:00

How can something so wrong feel so right? Variety reports "Nicolas Cage in talks to star in 'Left Behind' reboot." Cage might make an appropriately creepy Rayford Steele, but I'd be much happier to see Nicolas as Nicolae. Read more

2012-10-19T16:32:32-04:00

All the children, everywhere, evaporate instantaneously. The people of Earth come to believe that this was due to "electromagnetism" caused by unused nuclear weapons and so they all decide to dissolve their national governments and appoint a pacifist as global "potentate" to rule over the entire world with absolute power. The authors say this is from the Bible. Read more

2012-10-20T16:39:47-04:00

"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: David & Abishag. Read more

2012-10-19T11:03:10-04:00

It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This week, a somewhat garbled list of songs about poverty. (I started with songs with "poor" or "poverty" in the title, then the theme kind of got away from me a bit. Some good songs though.) Read more

2012-10-18T16:22:51-04:00

This post is only as strong as its weakest links. Featuring: What to do with a million forks; an awkward "personnel matter" at Pat Robertson's legal action group; Rep. Scott DesJarlais' seamless garment; Bryan Fischer vs. reality; and a must-read story via Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read more

2012-10-18T13:05:41-04:00

If you think women today should have more freedom than they had 3,000 years ago, or if you fail to condemn LGBT people with sufficient relish, then your standing as a legitimate evangelical will be formally challenged and your books will be prohibited from sitting on the shelves at LifeWay alongside those of Afro-phobic colonialists like Dinesh D'Souza and slavery apologists like Douglas Wilson. Read more

2012-10-20T16:39:56-04:00

"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: Hosea Read more

2012-10-17T23:56:49-04:00

A "sex scandal may spell the end for Dinesh D’Souza’s once rising star" in the evangelical subculture, Grace writes. "Note, not the fact that he’s been peddling racist and colonialist lies to white Christians for fun and profit for the past forever, but because of what’s assumed about his marriage and sex life." Read more

2012-10-17T16:42:01-04:00

Morgan Guyton on what Jesus never said to the woman at the well; Rachel Held Evans on the Bible; Scott Paeth on the crucifixion; and Jarm Logue, an illegal immigrant in 1860, responds to an appalling request from his aunt/"owner." Read more

2012-10-17T15:31:34-04:00

Love, the Family Research Council says, is just squishy, namby-pamby liberal talk for abandoning absolute truth and biblical authority. The Episcopalians chose love over truth, so they're shrinking. If you want your church to grow, according to the FRC, you have to be really, really anti-gay. Read more

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