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September 2013

September 16, 2013

Three strikes against white evangelical theology

This may seem like an intramural theological dispute between factions of white Protestants and, therefore,...

September 11, 2013

Texas evangelicals argue against evangelism

If you're an evangelical Christian and you find yourself arguing that "religious liberty" means that...

September 10, 2013

Donors rescue the Faculty Lounge of evangelicalism

The faculty lounge is a place where teachers and professors can relax and talk amongst...

September 08, 2013

My ‘Chicago Declaration’ story

David Swartz has posted a nice tribute to John Perkins. The post is an excerpt...

September 05, 2013

More about the NALT Christian Project

Amethyst Marie: "I am the little girl in Sunday School who’s always the first to...

September 04, 2013

Jesus Is Not At All Like That (my video for the NALT Christians Project)

I never made a YouTube video before, and that probably shows, but when John Shore...

September 04, 2013

The NALT Christians Project offers permission and an invitation

Here is the testimony of the faithful. Here are Christians from all over the place...

September 03, 2013

The Power of Gay is more than more than conquerors

The Power of Gayness is more powerful than death. It is more powerful than life....

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Complementarians see women and ‘gag’

For these folks, men's authority over women and women's submission to that authority is a...

August 27, 2013

Versus and clobber verses: ‘It’s an almost impossible situation’

But the next word Peter says is "but." "The Bible says one thing, but ..."...

August 27, 2013

Mugabe, Putin and The Gospel Coalition?

It would be wrong and unfair for us to make a facile leap to the...

August 26, 2013

Satanists did not kill pony or turn woman into lesbian

"Initial media reports linked the death of the pony to satanic cults and ritualistic killing,"...

August 23, 2013

Unveiling Revelation: ‘The Road to New Creation’

We've been spending time here most Fridays looking at the execrable theology of the Left...

August 22, 2013

The theology of assholes: More on ‘the insolent and sicklily squeamish mind’ of The Gospel Coalition

Everybody has one. I have one. So do you. So's your mother. Jesus had one....

August 22, 2013

50 Shades of The ‘Gospel Coalition’

The "Gospel Coalition's" Thabiti Anyabwile imagines -- in great detail -- what other couples may...

August 22, 2013

Manufacturing monsters: When you know you’re lying, you know you’re wrong

C.S. Lewis warns against the lure of wanting to view those we think of as...

August 19, 2013

Validating haters is neither moderate nor civil. It’s just hateful.

It would be a positive thing if these moderate mainstream white evangelicals, these Very Nice...

August 19, 2013

The Onanism of ‘teavangelical’ Republicans

Alas, Onan's name has lived on in a flagrant misreading of this story. "Onanism" became...

August 15, 2013

Rep. Paul Wieland of Missouri is lying

Wieland claims that his conscience is grievously mortified because of X. This isn't a lie...

August 13, 2013

Flipping the script on Russia’s anti-gay persecution

Thers: "Would there be any question whatsoever of the United States of America participating in...

August 08, 2013

The rules are funny, the ideas behind them are not

Defeating the Dragons: "The spirit, the beliefs, the ideas, the system that keeps the legalism...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

2. ‘The Conjuring’ reminds us that the only way to stop Satanic baby-killers is to punish women

The Warrens' shtick is a Gothic Catholic variation of the same con Mike Warnke and...

July 25, 2013

Evangelical gatekeepers and conservative holiness

Evangelicals scrupulously police their left-wing boundary, but the right-wing boundary is unmonitored. Because there is...

July 24, 2013

Bryan Fischer is very brave when confronting imaginary monsters

"Fears might also grow out of children's struggles with their own angry feelings," Mister Rogers...

July 22, 2013

Texas’ new law bans biblical abortions

Texas' new law has been cheered by religious groups who say they favor "biblical" morality...

July 20, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars (7.20)

Those who believe God wants them to be "a bad guy." What the Ultra-Neo-Reformed and...

July 17, 2013

Tricks and truth: Play at debate, but avoid the shut-eye

"Debate" invites the audience -- and even more so the performers themselves -- to regard...

July 16, 2013

How frail a foundation, ye saints of the Lord

If Jesus is the basis for your faith, then your "approach to authority" and "the...

July 11, 2013

Bebbington, schmebbington: Evangelicals’ politicized animosity to gays and women is not a media invention

Theological definitions don't matter. You will never be branded as "controversial" or banished from the...

July 04, 2013

Neil Steinberg & Dave Gushee on the damaging idea that ‘hating gays is a bedrock of Christian faith’

From Neil Steinberg: "Ask the next rabbi you see if he feels oppressed because the...