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May 2009

May 26, 2009

The Sick Bastard Rate

Here's a depressing bit of polling data. 62 percent of white evangelical Protestants said torture...

April 2009

April 23, 2009

The burkha-logic of NOM

In his New York Times column, Frank Rich calls that NOM ad (see the previous...

April 20, 2009

One cheer for Fred Phelps

By now I'm sure you've seen this ad, from the National Organization for Marriage:We could...

April 15, 2009

Fox News poisons Rick Warren

Strange but true. And on Easter Sunday no less.Warren canceled a scheduled appearance Sunday morning...

April 01, 2009

Nuts

This time it's pistachios. Federal food officials are warning people not to eat any food...

March 2009

March 11, 2009

Andy & Rick

Before belatedly getting into the other aspects of the hubbub over the Rev. Rick Warren...

March 05, 2009

Still in Hell

OK, then, what about Hitler?That's usually one of the first questions asked when one expresses...

March 02, 2009

H – E – double hockey sticks

If you're a regular listener to This American Life, then you already know this story....

February 2009

February 18, 2009

Why I'm peeved

I should probably mention why this topic is an important one for me. Young-earth creationism...

February 17, 2009

Well put

Lifted from the comments in the previous thread, straight provides a much clearer and more...

February 16, 2009

'Dismaying'

According to a disheartening recent poll, 200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, most...

January 2009

January 26, 2009

Abstinence education

Two things I've never been able to figure out about "abstinence only" sex education. 1....

November 2008

November 20, 2008

Questioning questions

Over on Christianity Today's Politics Blog, Sarah Pulliam asks "Can Obama Call Himself a Christian?"The...

October 2008

October 08, 2008

False Witnesses 2

(See part 1: False Witnesses.) "If you want to look thin, you hang out with...

September 2008

September 30, 2008

Shaking hands with the devil

I want to revisit the Associated Press article on Pulpit Freedom Sunday that I linked...

September 08, 2008

False witnesses

In my past life as an evangelical for social action, I had a much-photocopied dossier...

August 2008

August 19, 2008

Saddleback

Barry Lynn doesn't think Barack Obama should have agreed to appear at the presidential forum...

July 2008

July 16, 2008

It knots you

Reporter Jonathan Starkey finds a fresh angle for the high gas prices story: "Even Amish...

May 2008

May 19, 2008

Bacchanal

I haven't seen Prince Caspian yet, but since it was the "No. 1 Movie" this...

May 13, 2008

Manifested

I've now had a chance to read the "Evangelical Manifesto" that we discussed earlier. It's...

May 08, 2008

Hier stehe ich

Let me clarify that my earlier Protestant protest against the notion that the forgiveness of...

April 2008

April 29, 2008

The Guinness Book

Os Guinness has popped up on my screen here twice in the past week, so...

January 2008

January 21, 2008

Translating Huckabee

Doing my best impression of Barbara Billingsley in Airplane: "Oh stewardess! I speak evangelical ..."...

January 15, 2008

King and Huck

Today would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 78th birthday. That honorific --...

December 2007

December 20, 2007

Road to ruin

I've long admired (abstractly, from afar) the kind of piety and devotion described in Brother...

December 13, 2007

Charlie’s Angels

Project Angel Tree is a Good Thing. Or it would be a Good Thing if...

December 13, 2007

Identity Theft

"Concern trolling" predates the Internet. Consider, for example, the "lifelong" letter to the editor. I'm...

December 03, 2007

Are you there, God? It’s me, Huckabee

Via The Sinner's Guide: Mike Huckabee's phone call from God. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen: Governor,...

November 2007

November 13, 2007

FRC: Don’t hate the player

The Family Research Council is upset by this ABC News headline: "One in 10 Men...

November 08, 2007

Bread of Life baseball

I've been reading David Kuo's Tempting Faith, which brought the following to mind. I've also...