We read 1 Corinthians 13 at every wedding, but nobody listens. Read more

"Everything which does not put forward the meaning of the play impedes the meaning of the play." Read more

Swapping little pieces of our broken little hearts. Read more

What Mark Noll calls "naive Baconianism" doesn't work any better as a "judicial philosophy." Read more

This post is 13 years old, but it's about daily newspapers, so it seems older than that. Read more

The translators changed the words of the Bible to make it seem like it supported their political agenda. Read more

The central organizing principle of white evangelicalism is bearing false witness against one's neighbors. That's, you know, bad. Read more

The courts do not want to be asked to adjudicate between legitimate and illegitimate religious claims. Read more

Twenty years is, like, six generations in internet time. From March 19, 2010, “Lying your way to unreality“: Wednesday’s post on bearing false witness wasn’t prompted by a specific incident in the headlines as much as it was by a general phenomenon. Scarcely a day goes by without some public official saying something ludicrously untrue and ridiculously stupid — and yet says it with what seems to be utter sincerity. Scarcely an hour goes by when some pundit doesn’t say... Read more