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July 2016

July 12, 2016

These are dangerous days

Donald Trump's history as a predatory scam artist is just one of many reasons he's...

July 11, 2016

The Psalms and the word of God

Psalm 104 is a beautiful, moving, heartfelt hymn of praise -- just so long as...

July 08, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 89: ‘Mostly dead’

The title-instead-of-a-raise ploy works best with a certain kind of emotionally needy, thin-skinned employee. These...

July 08, 2016

American Horror Show open thread

Events like this inevitably cause some folks to cling more tightly to the sword, reciting...

July 02, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (7.2)

Sonia Sotomayor on lawless police; Ben Moberg on Orlando; Loretta Lynch on being seen; Alex...

July 01, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 88: ‘Sunday afternoons’

Restaurants probably took a bit of a hit from the Rapture -- what with there...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

He’s got the biggest King James you’ve ever seen

"Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I...

June 26, 2016

Sunday favorites

"Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as...

June 24, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 87: ‘Episode IV’

As you select names for your characters, for the businesses where they work, and for...

June 19, 2016

Sunday favorites

"Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And just then...

June 17, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 86: ‘Full House’

The authors offer a dull, but passable description of a successful revival meeting, and it...

June 16, 2016

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott’ning

What if we rewrote "The Da Vinci Code" as an extended episode of "Leverage"? That's...

June 14, 2016

We’ve gotten better at mourning. That’s a sick form of ‘progress’

The enormous change in public response might be more encouraging if the unit of measurement...

June 13, 2016

Orlando

"And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is...

June 10, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 85: ‘Sunday morning coming down’

This is something humans do. When disaster strikes -- fire, flood, mine explosion, school bus...

June 09, 2016

Maybe schools shouldn’t be lobbying to defend sexual predators

What we have here is a school -- an elementary school -- assuring every parent...

June 09, 2016

The transcript of a life (scandalously unscandalous)

An army of energized, motivated readers has pored over more than 30,000 of Hillary Clinton's...

June 08, 2016

That one time Muhammad Ali met with Billy Graham demonstrates, yet again, the huge change...

June 07, 2016

Primary day open thread

After today's primary elections in several states, including big-delegate events in California and New Jersey,...

June 03, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 84: ‘Tactical decency’

I doubt L&J would go so far as to agree with me about evangelism being...

June 01, 2016

Peel me off this Velcro seat and get me moving

Wherein we discuss, in no particular order: the coming out of another CCM rock-star; the...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

‘Game of Thrones’ and the Bible

Readers of "Ulysses" face the same danger that readers of "A Song of Ice and...

May 27, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 83: ‘Today’s Gospel reading’

Apparently Rayford plowed through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John without finding anything notable, striking or...

May 20, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 82: ‘yes I said yes I will Yes’

Re-read those personal testimonies but imagine that the topic is not religious conversion. Imagine that...

May 17, 2016

Billy Graham and the rise of the religious right

Syndicate theology brings together some leading religious historians to discuss Billy Graham's legacy in a...

May 15, 2016

Sunday favorites

"Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight,...

May 14, 2016

Calling out in transit

The male leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are now mumbling about maybe, some day,...

May 13, 2016

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 81: ‘What’s on second’

want us to read Billings' surprisingly inaccurate predictions as unerringly accurate. The sense one gets...

May 11, 2016

Some days you’re the pearlfish, some days you’re the sea cucumber

Character actor William Schallert found something he loved to do, he got good at it,...

May 11, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (5.11)

Elias Chacour, Barack Obama, Liz Plank, Rebecca Solnit and 111 United Methodist clergy and candidates...