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February 16, 2019
Smart people saying smart things (2.16.19)
Thomas Cranmer, Gabrielle Bellot and William Lindsey. Plus Stephanie Krehbiel on how "godly" men need...
February 13, 2019
Never been partial to shackles or chains
We tend to be more willing to forgive people like Edwards and Whitefield for being...
February 05, 2019
Postcards from the class & culture wars (2.5.19)
"Love worketh no ill to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
January 2019
January 15, 2019
Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.15.19)
"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the...
January 07, 2019
And we’re not through yet
It's weird that no one is even bothering to attempt to say that Oklahoma isn't...
January 02, 2019
Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.2.19)
"Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers....
December 2018
December 12, 2018
The pastor and the stolen election
The election-fraud story out of North Carolina is a doozy. The cast of characters seems to...
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November 24, 2018
‘No matter what the laws might be, you would honor yourself for doing it’
ICE agents emulate the tactics of slave-catchers from the 1850s, leading some North Carolina clergy...
November 08, 2018
Smart people saying smart things (11.8.18)
These smart things are good and beautiful and true, from: Gershom Gorenberg, Tara Isabella Burton,...
November 05, 2018
We try to control forgiveness because we know we need it
We know we need that forgiveness, desperately, and the realization that such forgiveness is out...
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October 11, 2018
‘They will inevitably learn and teach the wrong things’
"It is, you might well say, an elementary matter of justice."
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September 20, 2018
Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.20.18)
"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes;...
September 13, 2018
Smart people saying smart things (9.13.18)
Smart things from Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Adam Serwer, and Toni Bond...
September 05, 2018
The Gospel According to the Rumble Ponies
I would like to see Colin Kaepernick sign with the New York Mets. There are...
August 2018
August 20, 2018
Love is a burning thing …
I'm enjoying the new "Cloak and Dagger" series, even though it doesn't require super-powers to...
August 09, 2018
Postcards from the class & culture wars (8.9.18)
"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."
August 07, 2018
Stories with heroes and stories without them
There are no heroes working for CoreCivic, the incarceration-for-profit company that trades in human misery...
July 2018
July 02, 2018
Smart people saying smart things (7.2.18)
"The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less...
June 2018
June 28, 2018
I am now an alarmist
We have become hyper-vigilant about not being perceived as hyper-vigilant. Nothing alarms us more than...
June 21, 2018
And you may say to yourself, ‘My God! What have I done?’
Yes, white evangelicalism created Scott Pruitt, but not in the way the article imagines. Also:...
May 2018
May 17, 2018
What the world needs now
If you were hoping for a brand new religious-right direct-mail fundraising racket run by Johnnie...
April 2018
April 08, 2018
Foxes have holes, birds have their nests
The family of groundhogs that have lived under our backyard shed have been replaced by...
March 2018
March 06, 2018
The Cold War before the culture war
Billy Graham's anti-Communism was an essential aspect of his message, his persona, and his popular...
February 2018
February 19, 2018
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
Something is ch-ch-ch-changing. Someone is giving a damn. And, just by doing so, they're demonstrating...
February 07, 2018
‘Bearing false witness’ is not a synonym for ‘lying’
It would be fine if the commandment said something like "Thou shalt not deliberately bear false...
November 2017
November 20, 2017
Translating Away Justice
Came across this today on the Twitters, an important point well-expressed by Jemar Tisby:
October 2017
October 09, 2017
Fundamentalism is Not Conservatism (Biblically or Constitutionally)
The real dispute here is not between liberal and conservative traditions, but rather about the...
August 2017
August 28, 2017
The promissory note first, then you can talk about the dream
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the...
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June 22, 2017
If we confess our sins
At this point in the sermon, pastors often balk and attempt to do the impossible...
May 2017
May 19, 2017
The ‘work ethic’ can be unethical (part 1)
You should always work hard and do your best. This is a moral obligation. That...
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