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September 2011

September 23, 2011

'The last thing I'd do is condemn you'

Last month I was surfing a bit at The Blacklisted Journalist -- an awkwardly designed...

September 17, 2011

'Heather' is pushing 30

Mega-church pastor, televangelist and "Bible prophecy" peddler John Hagee really needs to update his stock...

September 02, 2011

Rich Dominionists in an Age of Hypocrisy

My first up-close and personal encounter with the dominionists came back during the days I...

September 01, 2011

That's how the light gets in

It's not the years, it's the mileage. Alisa Harris may seem a bit young to...

September 01, 2011

Lots more on dominion theology

Jim Burroway: "Christian Dominionism Is Not a Myth" These are not the people within the...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

One more point on biblicism

I want to mention one more problem that arises from biblicism, or biblical literalism: It...

August 30, 2011

Christian Smith on biblicism

Books & Culture just posted a review of the latest from Christian Smith, a sociologist...

August 29, 2011

Richard John Neuhaus did not think dominionism was a myth

Richard John Neuhaus, the neoconservative intellectual and editor of the journal First Things, thought that...

August 28, 2011

The fans might hate the movie

The good news for any filmmaker planning to do a Civil War movie is that...

August 28, 2011

If Michelle Bachmann doesn't want to be regarded as having close ties to dominionists then she should stop hiring them

Douglas Groothius clutches his pearls, flutters his handkerchief and collapses on his fainting couch over...

August 18, 2011

The 'Battle for the Bible'

Roger Olson on "When did evangelicalism start to go wrong (right)?" The Battle for the...

August 17, 2011

Pulpit glurge and ghost stories

"Glurge" is not unique to church, but churches tend to cultivate their own native varieties...

August 15, 2011

Christian privilege invisible to privileged Christians

Jason Pitzl-Waters of The Wild Hunt writes about "Invisible Christian Privilege": To many Christians their...

August 14, 2011

Testamints, tattoos and holy underwear

Not every "Christian T-shirt" is worn as a witnessing tool or a tribal symbol or...

August 13, 2011

Witnessing tools and resentment

In a post last week -- "You might be an evangelical ..." -- I touched...

August 11, 2011

The Bible vs. The Facts?

I am a Christian. I'm also a Baptist and we Baptists aren't big on creeds....

August 11, 2011

Al Mohler on Adam and Eve vs. The Facts

Phil Plait just linked back to a 2009 post of his that's a favorite of...

August 08, 2011

Subsidiarity and Saddleback

My frustration was showing a couple of weeks ago in a post titled: "Responsibility is...

August 05, 2011

You might be an evangelical …

In addition to our unexpected hospital adventure this week we've also been puppy-sitting for my...

August 01, 2011

'Growing Up Fundamentalist'

Last weekend, after months of pestering, I got my old Christian Service Brigade uniform shirt...

August 01, 2011

'We too fall with it'

So I'm working on collecting some of the older posts here, bundling them into categories...

July 2011

July 30, 2011

Movieguide approves of blue material

Movieguide, "the family guide to movies and entertainment," weighs in on The Smurfs. They smurfing...

July 14, 2011

Don't look at the finger

Molly Worthen's Slate piece -- "Sign Here, and Here, and Here" -- on the weirdly...

July 09, 2011

From the archives: The Gay-Hatin' Gospel

(I'm collecting and recollecting some older posts in the hopes of possibly bundling some of...

July 07, 2011

The Gospel Blimp

PZ Myers encounters Spire Christian Comics and is predictably -- and appropriately -- horrified by...

July 07, 2011

Orthodoxy and ignorance

Mike Todd, writing about Rob Bell's Love Wins and the (over)heated condemnation it has received,...

June 2011

June 29, 2011

Constantine is dead

If there were an award for seeking out the bare-minimum lowest common denominator of Christian...

June 22, 2011

Quench not the Spirit

Rachel Held Evans responds to the recent Southern Baptist Convention resolution affirming belief in "conscious,...

May 2011

May 14, 2011

Jim Wallis and Believe Out Loud, Part 2

When I worked for Evangelicals for Social Action -- a progressive evangelical group in the...

May 05, 2011

How to make sure your daughter grows up to marry Russell Brand

It seems every media outlet other than Vanity Fair did a story on Vanity Fair's...