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December 2015

December 10, 2015

‘If X is not wrong, then nothing is wrong’

Throughout all those years of refusing to admit that we had been wrong, and were...

December 02, 2015

LifeWay Research gets it backwards on abortion

"Women Distrust Church on Abortion" reads the headline from the Southern Baptist LifeWay Research, announcing...

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 28, 2015

The awkward ritual of having to condemn violence by people who believe your own rhetoric about Satanic baby-killers

Every once in a while, some disturbed person absorbs the language and logic of white...

November 24, 2015

NAE: Our politicized white theology has nothing to do with politics or race

The National Association of Evangelicals invites you to bow down and worship the "highest authority."...

November 23, 2015

Liberation vs. tribalism

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

November 13, 2015

Al Mohler’s pompous piety can’t make chicken soup out of the chicken-poop argument invented to justify slavery

Al Mohler is not saying anything Southern Baptists haven't said for 170 years. He is...

November 12, 2015

Why conversionist stories promote dishonesty

It's more than just the temptation to give our stories, as Burke writes, "a little...

November 11, 2015

How conversionist stories promote dishonesty

The evangelical conversion narrative encourages -- maybe even requires -- exaggeration, which is to say...

November 10, 2015

Rothko’s ‘War on Christmas’ (1950, oil on paper)

November 09, 2015

I believe in conversion, but not in ‘conversionism’

Conversionism needs drama. It needs the stark contrast of pre-conversion wickedness and post-conversion piety. It...

November 07, 2015

It’s not rocket science: Why at first I thought Ben Carson was like ‘Good Jackie’

As Ben Carson began repeating the urban legends and folklore of his religious community, I...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

I’m glad Westboro Baptist is protesting meteorology

Our imagined "biblical stance" on meteorology changed in exactly the way that, for many American...

October 28, 2015

New e-booklet: ‘Long March of the Koalas (And other creationist adventures)’

It's just 99 cents, and compiles many of the posts here addressing, assessing, unpacking, or...

October 27, 2015

Come hear the music. Come join the dance.

Many others are out there, too, but they don't share the older brother's anger. They...

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 22, 2015

White evangelical church-goers think their ‘science’ is better than the science those stupid scientists say is science

The Pew Research Center says a new survey shows "Highly religious Americans are less likely...

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 19, 2015

Do surgeons wear latex gloves in Catholic hospitals?

I've heard and seen this claim endlessly repeated by apparently well-meaning white evangelicals for decades....

October 14, 2015

The various endings of the Gospel of Mark (part 2)

Inerrantists insist that we needn't worry about the many examples of scribal errors, transcription mistakes,...

October 12, 2015

Wise as serpents and innocent as doves

A nice university professor has studied "Why some religious Americans see same-sex marriage as a...

October 06, 2015

You ought to quit this scene too

When I was a gung-ho member of my church youth group, I was all prepared...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

How to understand ‘biblical inerrantists’

The modern assertion of "biblical inerrancy" is best explained in a 1978 document called the...

September 17, 2015

The lazy imagination of the witch-hunter

If we can find someone worse to compare ourselves to, then we can feel better...

September 12, 2015

Protecting ‘our Christian values’

“You’re doing a lot to help the refugees,” one woman asked. “What are you doing...

September 07, 2015

Choosing to panic: Moral ‘panics’ require volunteers

Academic studies of moral panics emphasize the function of demagogues, "moral entrepreneurs," and credulous media...

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...

September 04, 2015

‘Can the Evangelical Left Rise Again?’ No. But thanks for asking.

I appreciate the recent wave of attention being paid to my former tribe, but there's...

September 03, 2015

‘Purity culture’ isn’t just a sex thing. It’s a do-nothing thing.

What then, is a good Christian to do in such a world? As little as...

September 02, 2015

The uncanny sex fiends of Christianity Today (No. 3)

Ed Stetzer's hasty guesstimate that 400 church leaders might possibly be resigning quickly morphed into...