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January 2016

January 30, 2016

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

I'd advise Trump to stick to some nice, safe evangelical church this week -- somewhere...

January 27, 2016

Empathy turned to fear and resentment

In 1741, white New Yorkers panicked due to their fear of a potential slave revolt....

January 26, 2016

Slaves in the hands of an angry white God

The New York Conspiracy of 1741 probably wasn't a conspiracy at all. While there's little...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Please be impotently polite in responding to our uncivil abuse of power

Suspending a tenured professor based on an implausible twisting of her words is not polite....

December 16, 2015

Wheaton College suspends its own credibility

It's impossible to see Wheaton College's abrupt suspension of Prof. Hawkins as anything other than...

December 15, 2015

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles

I think it's not so much the question of "what is this place for?" as...

December 08, 2015

Advent Calendar, Day Five: Magnificat Is Coming to Town

"The kids in girl and boy land," the song says, "will have a Jubilee." But...

December 03, 2015

What it seems to be all about then

It's a funny scene for what it is -- a child's childish fantasy of the...

December 01, 2015

Abd el-Kader and Syrian refugees

With the rejection of Syrian refugees becoming an ugly political issue for Republican presidential candidates,...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Church vs. the white evangelical direct-mail fundraising industry

But this church-y interest has relatively little influence within or over white evangelicalism as a...

November 23, 2015

Liberation vs. tribalism

"In order to maintain a voice within the evangelical world and make progress on a...

November 20, 2015

Lancaster County exposes the fraudulent misleadership of GOP governors and candidates

Lancaster County is doing both. It has ended homelessness among veterans in the county and...

November 16, 2015

Proximity, affinity, and mutuality

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," the epistle says. But anywhere and everywhere...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

The pros and cons of becoming a Prosperity Gospel televangelist

Should I become a Prosperity Gospel televangelist? I've done what it's often helpful to do...

October 27, 2015

Invisible dancing after an invisible famine

As a young white evangelical, I didn't remember hearing about any dancing in Jesus' parable....

October 20, 2015

Donald Trump, ‘Playboy,’ and when bigots were kids

The world is supposed to be just like it was before -- back when we...

October 12, 2015

Scenes from the class war (10.12)

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in...

October 08, 2015

‘Who gets a casserole?’

When hardship comes good neighbors often reach out to help. And often that means bringing...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

The promissory note

Pope Francis broke one of the cardinal rules of American politics during his visit to...

September 18, 2015

How to Lose Friends and Influence People

There's a bit of folk-wisdom that says you should never lend money to a friend...

September 10, 2015

If nothing is sacred, then everything is for sale

"Sacred" does not mean that something "is beyond question." It means that something is beyond...

September 08, 2015

Scenes from the class war (9.8)

"You have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it...

September 05, 2015

Baptism is always a political act

Believer's Baptism requires the separation of church and state. More than that: Believer's Baptism defiantly...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

The culture war has always been about race

Before the Reagan years, the culture wars were an anti-civil-rights struggle focused on race ("states'...

August 25, 2015

White evangelical voters, Donald Trump, and the evolution of the religious right

This isn't really about Donald Trump. It's about white evangelical voters and their support (later...

August 24, 2015

Where you gonna run to? Tim LaHaye and Billy Graham vs. Peter Tosh and Nina Simone

Nina Simone learned the song "Sinner Man" from her mother, who was a revivalist Methodist...

August 14, 2015

‘The propriety of the nation must be startled’

It's Friday the 14th, but let's have some Douglass anyway: "Scorching irony, not convincing argument,...

August 07, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (8.7)

Max Ehrenfreund on Kansas' efforts to kick the poors. Ta-Nehisi Coates on "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

‘Why is it men who commit mass shootings?’

We all can see this. We all know this. The pattern is so overwhelming and...

July 02, 2015

Try not to be the Bad Guy in the story: What it means to be ‘on the wrong side of history’

"The wrong side of history" is not a claim about the future, but a claim...