Mark Twain: "The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry." Read more
I'm sure that Burke could explain why he is dressed this way. I am not sure that I would understand that explanation. Yes, I'm a Protestant from a very low-church Baptist tradition. And, yes, I'm sure that explains a measure of my befuddlement over this photograph. But not all of it, because, well, just look at it. Read more
Christianity Today's headline style is to capitalize all words. The headline style of the Baptist Press, on the other hand calls for them to capitalize only the first word, followed by lying nonsense pretending that contraception and abortion are the same thing. Yes, this contradicts scientific and medical fact and bears false witness against the HHS while gorging on the delusional, smug self-righteousness that comes from pretending everyone else is a Satanic baby-killer. But hey, that's what the Baptist Press stylebook requires in a headline. 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: Solomon. Read more
It cannot be our only response, and it cannot be our primary response, but at least a part of our response to people like Clifford Russell must be to offer them a chance to be saved -- to find redemption, liberation and salvation. Read more
A slew of links, including Chris Kluwe on the Golden Rule, Rachel Held Evans on Christian publishing, Ta-Nehisi Coates on race-hustlers, and Hussein Ibish on blasphemy laws. I think there's a common theme here. Read more
Luke 12:16-21 Then he told them a parable: The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax,... Read more
Chris Heard on "Interpreting Genesis 1 'Literally;'" Amy Sullivan on why Paul Ryan and his bishop defenders get subsidiarity wrong; Lawrence Pitnak on journalistic firebombs; and Gary Longsine & Peter Boghossian on the unrighteousness of indignation. Read more
Buck and his father here are merely stand-ins. Buck represents the generic "saved" reader of the Left Behind series and his father represents that generic reader's generic "unsaved" family members. This conversation is mainly just another of the many evangelistic marketing scripts sprinkled throughout these books. 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: Jepthah. Read more
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