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January 2022

January 13, 2022

Pope Francis and the Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition

It's one thing to say "Some people making this choice might be doing so for...

January 13, 2022

Jan. 13 Flashback: Telling people to stay away from church

Predicting that inhospitality would be a bad outreach strategy was kind of obvious at the...

January 12, 2022

Jan. 12 Flashback: Cross-cultural missionaries

You can't do "cross-cultural ministry" if you refuse to allow a cross-cultural gospel.

January 11, 2022

Jan. 11 Flashback: How it got in my pajamas I’ll never know

Social pressure can be more powerful than an 800-pound gorilla.

January 10, 2022

Jan. 10 Flashback: Burk control

You may wake up tomorrow only to learn that all right-thinking evangelicals now believe in...

January 09, 2022

Jan. 9 Flashback: Rules, rules, rules

Asserting and reasserting a list of rules rather than offering a functional sexual ethics won’t...

January 08, 2022

Jan. 8 Flashback: Science fictional creationism

It’s possible, but unlikely, that you asked that question as a young person in church...

January 07, 2022

Jan. 7 Flashback: Killer Christians

They went to church. They prayed the "Our Father" to our Father. And then they...

January 06, 2022

Dry bones dance

This is a complaint about lazy network TV set decoration and also a plea for...

January 06, 2022

Jan. 6 Flashback: On humorless prigs

As Sinclair Lewis noted in Main Street, the accusation that one lacks a sense of humor...

January 05, 2022

January Jubilee (for your inbox)

Let's all celebrate the New Year by deleting 2021 from our email inboxes. (And by...

January 05, 2022

Jan. 5 Flashback: Ray Cats in the ruins of Ai

If I were writing this post in 2022, I'd include a discussion of Ray Cats.

January 04, 2022

Jan 4. Flashback: A ‘miracle’ revoked

If I cannot provide such answers as a theologian, then I certainly shouldn't be trying...

January 03, 2022

Jan. 3 Flashback: 66 books in one year

No one has ever read those stories in that way and anyone who tried would...

January 02, 2022

Jan. 2 Flashback: The viral Cookie Thing

The damned cookie thing — this half-baked, slapdash Comment Book posting — seemed to have...

January 01, 2022

Jan. 1 Flashback: Unbalancing the First Amendment

Nothing here requires some delicate “balance.” If there is no prohibition against the establishment of...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Here comes the jackpot question in advance

Reconstruction, deconsecration, differentiation, ordination and incarceration.

December 28, 2021

‘It was just what you did’

Some churches die, some are killed, and some get reborn as something else.

December 24, 2021

I’ve got a feeling this year’s for me and you

Jack and Ennis, Anne Lamott, the Pogues. The traditional Christmas Eve bit around here.

December 23, 2021

Smart people saying smart things (12.23.21)

Amy Butler, Sarah Stankorb, Kelly Latimore, thanosrain, Adam Kotsko, Clint Smith.

December 22, 2021

Half way out of the dark

Well done, well done, everyone. We're (maybe) halfway out of the dark.

December 16, 2021

Is it all in my mind? Cause it seems so hard to believe

The Daughters of Eve, Purity Culture 2.0, corrupt bargains, sappy '80s pop, and Large Animals...

December 15, 2021

One down, 19 to go*

The angry mom is angry with the library because the angry mom is angry. The...

December 05, 2021

The lethal cynicism of Republican arithmetic

Republican leaders know that their cynical strategy is killing tens of thousands of their own...

December 03, 2021

‘A man turns his back on his family, well, he just ain’t no good’

There was no classic Americana standard called "Night of the Johnstown Flood." And there's no...

December 03, 2021

‘I catch him when he’s straying, like any brother would’

Joe and Frankie Roberts. Chris and Andrew Cuomo. Solidarity, subsidiarity, and Springsteen.

December 02, 2021

‘We come in last in the human race’

Find whoever it is that is being told they don't matter and show them that...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

Smart people saying smart things (11.30.21)

Dahlia Lithwick, Ed Yong, Sarah Smith, Daniel King, Michael Hobbes, and Jill Filipovic.

November 28, 2021

May the circles be unbroken

A new approach to an old strategy could help resettle thousands of Afghan refugees. If...

November 23, 2021

This mist that covers your eyes

Northern armadillos, stedfastly anti-gay churches, and the utterly failed politics of Billy Graham.