For 20 years now, this blog has maintained the distinction between a “blog” and a “post.” From April 2, 2009, “Don’t Stop Believin’“: Jason was a couple of years behind me at Timothy Christian, and like many kids who went to that private, fundamentalist school, he wasn’t allowed to listen to what we called “secular music.” Of course, like most of the kids faced with this prohibition, Jason went to great lengths to listen to the forbidden music on the... Read more

It may start with the promise of salmonella-free peanut butter, but they know it will end with Chloe Steele getting guillotined by the Antichrist's OWG. Read more

“She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Read more

Redefining God's justice as God's vengeance won't fix what's broken. Read more

The gatekeepers of the white evangelical tribe do not patrol that tribe’s far-right boundary because it has no far-right boundary. Read more

For 20 years now, this blog has maintained the distinction between a “blog” and a “post.” From March 28, 2013, “Sin and death and drosophila“: The reference to Romans there, presumably, is to Paul’s statement that “sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin” (Romans 5:12). I think Paul would be surprised — and rather angry — to learn that later Christians were attempting to twist that into a statement about biology, but that is what Piper is... Read more

Young-earth creationism is a cruelly efficient machine for manufacturing spiritual crisis. Read more

Utah's Republican governor says and does a decent thing. Read more