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July 2016

July 05, 2016

When identity is bound up in a lie

It's never that easy when identity is at stake. Identity means survival is at stake....

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Secret conversions and the celebrity double-standard

If you want to be beloved by white evangelicals, then, your best bet is to...

June 27, 2016

James Dobson is reliably untrustworthy

It seems that some of the same right-wing hacks who have for years suggested that...

June 23, 2016

‘Religious outreach’

While Donald Trump's evangelical outreach continues to flail -- "We've gotta spiritize this country!" --...

June 22, 2016

Ralph Reed’s history with casino moguls

"Ralph Reed worked for team Abramoff by mobilizing Christians opposed to gambling to shutter casinos....

June 21, 2016

Donald Trump’s B-list ‘evangelical advisory board’

Donald Trump's list of names is interesting both for who it includes and who it...

June 04, 2016

Untold millions are still untold

Someone left a gospel tract on a shelf at the Big Box store. This was,...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Chapter and verse

But when I read a story like this, I want to know more. When a...

May 26, 2016

Clobber-texting isn’t a principled hermeneutic: A horrifying case study

You have heard it said that if a man meets a virgin who is not...

May 19, 2016

The sins of the fathers

"Few people had more influence on Billy Graham than Bell," reads the Wikipedia entry for...

May 18, 2016

Bowling with Jesus

Would Jesus bowl? That question has been asked and answered. Even among the fundiest of...

May 14, 2016

The Fall of the House of Graham (ongoing)

The transition from Billy Graham to his son Franklin Graham is a microcosm of the...

May 12, 2016

Whatever happened to ‘pro-life Democrats’? Go see ‘Spotlight’

The once mostly Catholic phenomenon of congressional "pro-life Democrats" ended due to the horror of...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Relitigating the Golden Rule

Protect religious groups you admire by protecting religious groups you do not admire. Otherwise you're...

April 27, 2016

White evangelicals and ‘the social upheaval of the ’60s’

Usually, this is stated with a polite euphemism. We don't name all of these things...

April 18, 2016

What if we learned about the Bible from the people who got it right?

The victims of injustice tend to have a far better theological track record than the...

April 06, 2016

Don’t waste time trying to please people who are determined never to be pleased by you

A 50-year-old letter from a great theologian in response to evangelical gatekeepers provides a general...

April 05, 2016

‘Christians have permission to laugh’ means ‘Christians NEED permission to laugh’

The Babylon Bee is a rare thing -- an evangelical humor site that's actually funny....

April 02, 2016

The Bartonizing of ‘mainstream’ white evangelicalism continues apace

Back in January, I worried that "A Ted Cruz win could further Bartonize 'mainstream' white...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

South Carolina GOP threatens evangelical churches

South Carolina Republicans are pushing a bill that would hold churches criminally and financially liable...

March 29, 2016

Educated men who are almost as ignorant about insurance as they are about human reproduction

Men who don't understand how sex works or what contraception does are now suing the...

March 19, 2016

An ‘old Cherokee story’ and other lies from the pulpit

"Which wolf will win?" "The one I feed the most." I heard this story dozens...

March 15, 2016

They have always been here. If you didn’t know that before, it’s because you couldn’t be trusted to know.

Rick Scarborough seems shocked that many white evangelical Christians have had abortions or know someone...

March 11, 2016

This is what abortion politics is for

Failing the clearest moral test of your time and culture is only a problem so...

March 08, 2016

Satanic baby-killers.

C.S. Lewis said that a determination to cling to the idea that our enemies are...

March 08, 2016

Credit scores and the Mark of the Beast

Enthusiasm for a national ID card shows that fear of the Mark of the Beast...

March 06, 2016

The national ID card and the Mark of the Beast

For a big chunk of those voters, Orwell's language of "Big Brother" isn't the preferred...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Donald Trump as Cyrus the Great

White evangelicals are looking to Donald Trump as a kind of modern-day Cyrus the Great....

February 23, 2016

Driscoll and Trump: A tale of two bullies

What we're seeing here is a failure of, as Gushee says, "moral formation." When one...

February 22, 2016

The dominionist is also a goldbug

A return to the gold standard would be disastrous, but it clearly would also produce...