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June 2015

June 02, 2015

The Council of Women for Home Missions this ain’t

There's a lot to criticize in the early-20th-century "Americanization" efforts of the various Protestant home...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

The ‘CharlieCharlieChallenge’ doesn’t lead to demonic possession — but it can nurture credulity and willful ignorance, which is worse

The "CharlieCharlieChallenge," like Ouija boards, is pretty dumb. But neither of those is as bad...

May 28, 2015

The Duggar Family Scandal: A reader

Here's a round-up of some insightful commentary and reflection in response to the Josh Duggar...

May 28, 2015

Back to the ’80s, because we never left them (part 2)

Any skeptical questions about the reality of these alleged horrors was reinterpreted -- and fiercely...

May 28, 2015

Back to the ’80s, because we never left them

The D&D backlash of the 1980s wasn't sustainable because the unreality of the imagined threat...

May 27, 2015

Consent is a necessary prerequisite for any sexual ethic

To put this all another way, for social conservatives, marriage is necessary and sufficient for...

May 21, 2015

‘Erotic liberty’ — Al Mohler’s new slur is really a sad confession

The phrase "erotic liberty," as Al Mohler is trying to use it, only makes sense...

May 15, 2015

‘We must be careful about what we pretend to be’: How tribal cheerleading creates new tribal dogma and changes the tribe to conform to it

Over time, these kinds of tribal-cheerleading responses to pollsters and other catechists eventually become required...

May 12, 2015

James Dobson cannot really believe what he says about legal abortion and the Holocaust

James Dobson isn't alone in making this claim. The legal-abortion-is-worse-than-the-Holocaust line is so frequently repeated...

May 10, 2015

ERLC-Watch-Watch: The Watchdog blog against watchdog blogs that might keep Southern Baptist leaders accountable

One way to avoid the kind of scandal that forced Richard Land out of the...

May 07, 2015

A closed circle of squares: Hipster costumes can’t make exclusion cool

The uncoolness of Q Ideas, I think, stems from its desire to attain insider status...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Inerrancy, white evangelicals, ‘and the sin of racism’

Emma Green's "Southern Baptists and the Sin of Racism" provides us a sharp image of...

April 14, 2015

What’s the deal with this ‘Sunday WTF’?

I'm sure that some people will perceive my focus on these passages as an "attack"...

April 09, 2015

Postcards from the culture wars (4.9)

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has...

April 07, 2015

How fundies miss out on the fun (the Synoptic Problem is not that kind of ‘problem’)

Fundamentalists see the "synoptic problem" as the wrong kind of problem -- as an embarrassing...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Duck Dynasty’s loveless ethics and why reaver jokes aren’t funny

Phil Robertson isn't just saying that his atheist neighbors are all sub-human reavers, he's also...

March 26, 2015

Duck Dynasty’s loveless ethics and … the Aristocrats!

"Duck Dynasty" grandpappy Phil Robertson made an appalling confession, which he presented in the form...

March 23, 2015

The Satanic baby-killers of London

Here's how to do it. First, look at The Guardian's headline for the story above:...

March 19, 2015

Episcopalian and evangelical are not exclusive categories

This transparent heads-I-win, tails-you-lose cooking of the books happens all the time with all of...

March 18, 2015

24 warning signs that your evangelical friend might be about to ‘depart’ for the Episcopal Church

Evangelical gatekeepers have been wringing their hands over the departure of yet another once-saved Christian,...

March 16, 2015

How I learned to stop clobber-texting and love George Bailey

These Bailey-ite "alternative investments" with their modest interest rates might seem to me to be...

March 15, 2015

‘The Bible is really clear about usury’

The problem is not that the Bible is lacking in clarity. The problem, rather, tends...

March 13, 2015

Jesus is not like Joseph. God is not like Pharaoh.

John Hagee's weird little "prophetic overlay" about Joseph and Jesus thus highlights the way his...

March 07, 2015

No time to wallow in the mire

This started out as a series of bland jokes about the idea of my parents...

March 03, 2015

Southern Baptist leaders call for war … or something

An open letter signed by the 17 most recent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention...

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith (cont’d.)

Sustaining the kind of fantasy Linda Wall invites her readers to indulge in takes an...

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith

The culture warrior faith of the religious right is sometimes criticized for being overly negative....

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Who was more Catholic: St. Francis or Torquemada?

This framework grants an advantage to one kind of religion over the other. One strain...

February 20, 2015

The framework of fundamentalist propaganda distorts how we view every religion

I think of this as a Yeatsian framework because it privileges the supposedly "more authentic"...

February 20, 2015

When some faction says they, and they alone, are the Real, True Christians, you shouldn’t take their word for it

The compulsion to elevate oneself as the righteous remnant, and to draw boundaries between Real...