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July 2014

July 31, 2014

‘I think religious preoccupation with abortion is largely about controlling the sexuality of women’

John H. Richardson's remarkable Esquire profile of Dr. Willie Parker is going to make a...

July 30, 2014

‘Make disciples’: Actors, hitters, and Christians

How Andy Serkis and Tony Gwynn can help us Christians understand the Great Commission and...

July 23, 2014

Idiot plots, purity culture, and the cruel gods of farce

Roger Ebert's movie glossary defines an Idiot Plot as "Any plot containing problems that would be solved...

July 22, 2014

The Bible was written by and for humans from Earth

Humans from Earth are central to the story in the human's Bible because that Bible...

July 22, 2014

Obama also did not create a religious exemption permitting discrimination on the basis of race or sex

The Rev. Canon Susan Russell, who blogs at An Inch at a Time, wound up changing...

July 21, 2014

Love and justice are what give us ears to hear

Let me revisit what I'm trying to say in the previous post -- "Without justice,...

July 19, 2014

The Fall of the House of Graham

Some of us have been publicly complaining about Franklin's hijacking and derailing of his father's...

July 17, 2014

‘Liberal theology’ is not the opposite of political conservatives’ theology

Every once in a while, this needs to be said: "Liberal" politics and "liberal" theology...

July 16, 2014

Al Mohler: Standing athwart Pentecost and yelling ‘Stop!’

Al Mohler's main problem is not that he's on the wrong side of history. His...

July 14, 2014

Dear Thomas Kidd: Bite me.

Oh my. I can hear the pearls being clutched from here. That's not very "civil"...

July 14, 2014

If ‘evangelical morality’ harms others and can’t justify itself, is it ‘unfair’ to mention that it’s losing the argument?

Evangelical morality is not losing the argument because it is insufficiently "progressive." Evangelical morality is...

July 10, 2014

A whiskey priest is not the same as a Nazi

Did Luther's anti-Semitism "affect" his theology, or did his theology foster his anti-Semitism? Yes, both....

July 09, 2014

Whatever happened to the clobber texts for slavery? (Unlearning the lies, cont’d.)

When we see this text on the home page of this blog, we will know...

July 08, 2014

Seeking ‘religious liberty’ just like Elijah at Kishon

When you're trying to paint your political opponents as evil baby-killers, it doesn't work to...

July 08, 2014

Gatekeepers are losing their grip

The problem with banishing members of the tribe for this thought crime, though, is that...

July 05, 2014

Who Would Jesus Sue? This week in weird religious copyright trolling

Who Would Jesus Sue? We saw a couple of suggested answers to that question this...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Unlearning the lies we learned from the theologians of slavery (part 3)

Here we see one of many wrong turns taken by white theology as a consequence...

June 23, 2014

Forget about those kids, real, true Christians are the real victims here

This story is several months old, but it's worth revisiting, I think, because it illustrates...

June 21, 2014

Unlearning the lies we learned from the theologians of slavery (part 2)

Jonathan Edwards' understanding of "total depravity" illuminates our task when evaluating the heritage of American...

June 20, 2014

Our job is to unlearn the lies we learned from the theologians of slavery (part 1)

George Whitefield's slave-owning and his lobbying for the legalization of slavery in Georgia were, in...

June 18, 2014

My interview with N.T. Wright on marriage equality

Well, that was ... disappointing. I apologize for presuming that Wright was going to have...

June 18, 2014

For God so loved the world

I had to re-read that several times before it finally sunk in that they were...

June 17, 2014

‘Ambiguity proposes, preference disposes’: We have to choose

To read the Bible is to interpret the Bible, which is to say it requires...

June 17, 2014

This is not good news. This is not salvation.

The man who wrote those words was surely, at some fundamental, essential level, wrong about...

June 15, 2014

Prayer isn’t a game of ‘What’s My Line?’

This popular bit of folk-"wisdom" stunts and reduces prayer to a series of Yes or...

June 14, 2014

They took down that post

Leadership Journal is decidedly and determinedly an institution at the heart of white evangelical institutionalism....

June 13, 2014

A preferential option for predators: Christianity Today hires the Rev. Humbert Humbert to serve as a spiritual adviser to its readers

The premier magazine for white evangelical clergy is facing powerful criticism for its decision to...

June 12, 2014

Feedly Hell

I do not believe in the existence of Hell, but I do believe in "Hell"...

June 11, 2014

Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’

Joseph Laycock's description of "ostension" and the "corrupt play" dynamics that fueled the Slender Man...

June 10, 2014

Conversion to what? Conversion from what? The unanswered questions of ‘Great Commission Baptists’

"Conversionism" is one of the defining characteristics of white evangelicalism -- part of the famous...