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April 2013

April 10, 2013

People get ready, there’s a train a-coming

Dannika Nash writes an open letter to the church: "We want to stay in your...

April 06, 2013

Mourning with those who mourn

No pious jackasses sit around pondering "Should Christians Take Insulin?" No insufferably holier-than-thou idiots pretend...

April 04, 2013

North Carolina Republicans introduce bill to outlaw Baptist churches and establish N.C. Staatskirche

"A resolution filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion,...

April 04, 2013

‘God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean’ (No. 2)

Slowly, but surely, we're winning this argument. Slowly, gradually, more and more Christians are coming...

April 03, 2013

Manhattan Declaration Direct-Mail Fundraising Inc.

The half-a-million signatories of the Manhattan Declaration provide quite a mailing list. More importantly, it's...

April 02, 2013

Won’t you help to sing: Easter is an uprising

Here, again, we see the daunting problem facing people like me when we try to...

April 02, 2013

Google and white Christians’ search for ‘persecution’

It might seem preposterous to you that Team Christian would try to pretend that Google's...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Well you’re high on top of your mountain of woe

The one thing white evangelicals had been sure of was that they were morally superior....

March 28, 2013

Thou shalt not treat human beings as ‘controversial issues’

Here I don't want to wade into that constitutional debate. Or into some abstract, meta-level...

March 28, 2013

Sin and death and drosophila

I think the Apostle Paul would be surprised -- and rather angry -- to learn...

March 25, 2013

Matthew 16:6

She flipped through the bulletin to find the church calendar for the week. The Prayer...

March 25, 2013

Michele Bachmann, Rick Warren telling lies for Jesus that hurt poor women

The congregation of Saddleback Church includes hundreds of women who rely on Planned Parenthood for...

March 22, 2013

‘Scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible’

"Beware of these scamsters," says Pat Robertson. "Especially scamsters in religious garb, quoting the Bible....

March 20, 2013

A delusional fantasy … on fire!

I've sometimes characterized much of the "Teavangelical" right-wing of America as people caught up in...

March 19, 2013

Don’t treat people as symbols for a tribal loyalty quiz

Worse than that, though, is what these tribal trustees are doing when it comes to...

March 19, 2013

Culture-war diaries

Rob Bell and Hillary Clinton take sides; reinventing Promise Keepers; biblical special effects; a new...

March 18, 2013

Satanic baby-killers: What the Devil happened in Arkansas?

Beginning in the 1980s, a feverish hysteria swept across America. It was centered in one...

March 17, 2013

Noah’s ark, manna, and a convenient device for ignoring the inconvenient point

"Did exactly this actually occur precisely in this way?" is probably the least interesting, least...

March 14, 2013

It’s not your ‘stance,’ but who you’re standing with

When abuse occurs within an institution, it threatens that institution. If our primary allegiance is...

March 13, 2013

‘Stop it, punish it, corral people, shame people’

That does seem like a rather harsh accusation. But in my defense, there's one good...

March 08, 2013

Those elusive green shoots of green evangelicals

Fifteen years ago I believed that white evangelicals' antipathy to environmentalism was due to a...

March 07, 2013

Another ‘Noah’s Ark,’ but this one might be OK

The story of Noah is particularly tempting for a certain kind of illiteralist reader. The...

March 06, 2013

UNC, the Vatican and Sovereign Grace Ministries: When PR trumps concern for victims

If anything good might have come from the ongoing horror show of the Catholic sex-abuse...

March 06, 2013

Christian college fires woman for not getting abortion

What happened was an unmarried employee of San Diego Christian College turned up pregnant, so...

March 05, 2013

The adults who taught and encouraged this are guilty of child abuse

I don't want to mock this child. She deserves more pity than scorn. She's parroting...

March 04, 2013

Concubines and ‘biblical families’: Literalism, inerrancy, slavery and a great deal of money

"Concubines." Look it up. Get out a concordance and do a good old-fashioned evangelical word...

March 03, 2013

Please stop looking for the ‘original sin’ gene

We can only make sense out of the idea that sin is "genetic" if we're...

March 02, 2013

Lay your burden down, God is not a jerk

That burden, that discomfiting sense that religion and goodness are at odds, is something I've...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Saying the F-word in church

What makes this extraordinary is partly the substance of this conversation, but more than that...

February 27, 2013

What does this chart tell us about Christian sexual ethics?

Is this evidence of Christian hypocrisy or evidence of Christian honesty? Or is it just...