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April 2023

April 18, 2023

Postcards from the class & culture wars (4.17.23)

"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."

April 11, 2023

The Satanic Panic Never Ended (cont’d.)

"Outrageous accusations, horrible accusations, accusations that, in hindsight, have all been proven false were made...

April 07, 2023

Holy Saturday

Seriously, just look around. Does it look like those who hunger and thirst for justice...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

Cops behaving badly (3.28.23)

Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

March 24, 2023

Cakes and ale (and drag queens)

It seems odd to suggest that community theaters and high school theater programs now have...

March 21, 2023

Bartender says ‘Is this some kind of joke?’

So a minister, a priest, and a rabbi walk into a Pew Research survey. ...

March 20, 2023

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.20.23)

"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin...

March 18, 2023

Missionaries and Marines

Haiti was invaded and occupied by US Marines and then, decades later, it was invaded...

March 08, 2023

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

The Flushing Remonstrance called for the religious pluralism that defines New York City. People just...

March 07, 2023

I want to love but it comes out wrong

When people talk about that creepy, gross post about sex at The Gospel Coalition, you...

March 05, 2023

The world was so big, and I was so small

When a Gen-X mid-life crisis turns into a Grand Theory of Christian history.

February 2023

February 28, 2023

‘Then’

Justice is not the fruit of revival; revival is the fruit of justice.

February 23, 2023

Born to lose and destined to fail

Schoolchildren in Florida are not allowed to read books that mention how Roberto Clemente had...

February 21, 2023

Freely, freely you have received

Here is a theory of revival -- a theory about what is happening when this...

February 20, 2023

‘Let them fight’

Make some popcorn and root for injuries.

February 17, 2023

There is no sleeping giant

The most famous revival in American religious history, and probably the most influential, never actually...

February 10, 2023

Walking Scott Street, feeling like a stranger

"There’s no way that this is named after who I think it’s named after."

February 07, 2023

Enhanced clobber-texting methods

Clobber texts are not found; they are made.

February 03, 2023

The other way around (More on slavery and ‘how to interpret the Bible’)

White Christians in antebellum America did not come to accept slavery because of their biblicism....

February 01, 2023

St. ELIZA, pray for us

Do Robot Pastors Dream of Electric Sheep?

January 2023

January 25, 2023

Tim LaHaye had a Dream

LaHaye wrote this letter in 1968. In a sense, he never stopped writing this letter.

January 24, 2023

Wherein I beg for money

This is a fundraising post because we very much need to raise some funds.

January 23, 2023

Thou shalt not suffer a witch-hunter

"If you succeed, go and do it. I am not concerned about it."

January 23, 2023

Just a lifting of the veil for the ending of the world

Be not full of fear, there is no darkness here

January 21, 2023

Smart people saying smart things (1.21.23)

Listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom, Amanda Tyler, David Dark, Audrey Clare Farley, and Mallory Challis.

January 18, 2023

Do you like tacos?

Turns out that's not the lyric. But it should be.

January 18, 2023

Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.18.23)

"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what...

January 17, 2023

Sharpening stones, walking on coals

To improve your business acumen.

January 13, 2023

Back on the (prayer) chain gang

I've been saying "Thank you" a lot lately, because I have a lot of people...

January 09, 2023

Epiphany: Jesus & Job & Jodie & Jamie Lee

May your year be filled with epiphanies large and small, and may all your Fridays...

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