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July 2018

July 12, 2018

Arrest ICE

A proclamation from 1886. The adjective we use for this now -- for jurisdictions committed...

July 11, 2018

‘If Jesus had broken the law then he would have been sinful’

Paula White thinks breaking the law is always a sin; and that complying with the...

July 10, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (7.10.18)

"Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims -- Laws that...

July 09, 2018

The fine art of browsing

Broadly speaking, Big Box customers fall into two categories: People who are looking for a...

July 06, 2018

LBCF, No. 192: ‘L&J vs. ORBP’

Same title. Same premise. Very similar End Times check list. But this book barely registered...

July 05, 2018

Out in the hall they were talking in a whisper

Mike Pence takes a spectacular swing-and-miss at using the Bible to defend his buddy Trump's...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

LBCF, No. 191: ‘The worst mankind has ever seen’

"A Thief in the Night" Thief was relentlessly preachy, but you sensed that these were people...

June 24, 2018

Sunday favorites

Annie Dillard, in Holy the Firm Of faith I have nothing, only of truth: that...

June 22, 2018

LBCF, No. 190: ‘Something happens’

Not to disparage the hard work Stoney and Cothran have done and all they’ve managed...

June 19, 2018

Romans 13 and the Gettysburg Address

We're not first-century subjects of an emperor. We shouldn't be reading Romans 13 as about...

June 17, 2018

Sunday favorites

Birmingham 12:7-14 You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws....

June 15, 2018

LBCF, No. 189: ‘Think Different’

"Bible-prophecy scholarship" in this story -- and in real life -- is phlebotinum. The Rapture...

June 08, 2018

LBCF, No. 188: ‘No love for Hattie’

The actor playing Hattie Durham wants us to know that she doesn't approve of Hattie's...

June 05, 2018

Fly, Iggles, fly

The crowd for the Eagles Super Bowl parade was much, much larger than the crowd...

June 01, 2018

LBCF, No. 187: ‘Accumulated radiation’

Tim LaHaye’s theology and the awkward plot Jerry Jenkins has constructed for it simply do...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

It DID happen here

The deeply frustrating thing about this genre of alternate histories is something neither Gehrz nor...

May 27, 2018

Sunday favorites

"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping...

May 25, 2018

LBCF, No. 186: ‘Lone Gunmen’

The Rapture would be devastatingly traumatic on a global scale, but despite that — or...

May 21, 2018

‘That’s why we are here’

Some criticized Curry's sermon as "political," which of course it was. How could it not...

May 20, 2018

Sunday favorites

"Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."

May 18, 2018

LBCF, No. 185: ‘Jesus met the woman’

We've already seen where Jesus is and we watched Rayford drive right past him. You...

May 11, 2018

LBCF, No. 184: ‘In case of Rapture’

If you're reading this blog, you're almost certainly among those whom Tim LaHaye & Jerry...

May 04, 2018

LBCF, No. 183: ‘Gone off naked’

Our first glimpse of Nicolae Carpathia shows him standing alongside the least of these, feeding...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

I’m going to miss RNS when it’s gone

I don't know exactly what's going on at Religion News Service, but it seems bad....

April 27, 2018

LBCF, No. 182: ‘Growing Pains’

Kirk Cameron is an actor. Kirk Cameron is not good at acting. I suspect this...

April 26, 2018

‘If no one asks, then no one answers’

"Others in the room balked. One longtime leader of an evangelical umbrella group said that...

April 22, 2018

Sunday favorites

"Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have...

April 20, 2018

LBCF, No. 181: ‘Meet the Steeles’

Brad Johnson is a far better actor than Jerry Jenkins is a writer. Casting a...

April 17, 2018

Today is not the deadline for donations

This is a fund-raising post. If you are willing and able to support this blog,...

April 17, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (4.17.18)

Jason Fagone, Bryan Stevenson, Anthony Fowler, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Abraham Lincoln.