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June 2015

June 09, 2015

Revisiting the immorality of the religious right’s ‘moral high ground’

The religious right's assertion that it represented the moral high ground was widely accepted for...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

James Dobson cannot really believe what he says about legal abortion and the Holocaust

James Dobson isn't alone in making this claim. The legal-abortion-is-worse-than-the-Holocaust line is so frequently repeated...

May 01, 2015

This day is not imagination’s child

Texas Republican slaps down right-wing nonsense: "I am horrified that I have to choose between...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Postcards from the culture wars (4.9)

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has...

February 2015

February 15, 2015

Painful nonsense

He is telling us that "most of the people who have ever been born" have...

February 11, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (2.11)

Molly Worthen, James Baldwin, Jeet Heer, and Natasha Chart all, in different ways, reflect on...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (1.28)

Panti Bliss on what it is that homophobes are afraid of. Rachel L. Martin on...

January 02, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (1.2)

The ethics and economics of Baileyism; John Cleese on stupidity; Alan Bean on pro-torture Christians;...

December 2014

December 13, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (12.13.14)

Randi Harper on online abuse; Chris Rock on the whiteness of Hollywood; Damaris Zehner on...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Pardon the way that I stare

The Cage, but no Kirk, plus some Thursday links and musings, including: Anti-abortion groups get...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (9.25)

Lt. Col. William J. Astore (USAF, ret.) on the American cult of bombing; James Woods...

September 14, 2014

The Satanic Panic arose from abortion politics

Rather suddenly -- in about a decade -- white evangelical politics, identity, piety and dogma...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

‘They’re evil humans. They are butchering children for a living’

Janet Mefferd perfectly illustrates what C.S. Lewis described as "a determination to cling" to a...

August 25, 2014

Ice-buckets, IVF and mass-murderers

If you accept the anti-abortion premise and the anti-abortion logic of the Catholic hierarchy's opposition...

August 18, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars (8.18)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

‘I think religious preoccupation with abortion is largely about controlling the sexuality of women’

John H. Richardson's remarkable Esquire profile of Dr. Willie Parker is going to make a...

July 01, 2014

John Courtney Murray is still dead

Blood transfusions, you see, are religiously forbidden for Jehovah's Witnesses. That is to say, in...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (6.17)

Dr. Jen Gunter responds to the odious George Will; Marika Rose on women in systematic...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (5.30)

Julian of Norwich says, "so verily God is our Mother." Vixen Strangely on "Men Who...

May 29, 2014

Anti-abortion activist says Obama’s presidential library will be just like Heaven

Erasing those women -- eliminating them from our imagining -- is probably the second-most horrifying...

May 25, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (5.25)

The Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma on colonial homophobia; Natalie Burris on white evangelical gatekeepers; Heath...

May 07, 2014

My expectancies become my fantasies

I checked -- Tim Challies' "False Teachers" series is not actually a parody mocking the...

May 07, 2014

GOP Rep. Stacey Campfield, Obamacare, and the Israeli health system

If Republican Rep. Stacey Campfield thinks Obamacare is like the Holocaust, he should take a...

May 01, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

White evangelicals getting ready to rewrite the Bible. Again.

It has happened before and, as Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux shows, it is happening again. History will,...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

The tribal trilateral: White, Protestant, anti-abortion.

That's what all those other tribal signifiers, past and present, tend to be -- short-hand...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

When we say that some white evangelical leaders are delusional and/or disingenuous political hacks, this is the kind of thing we’re talking about

White evangelicals may have adopted Republican politics as a core creedal dogma, but they insist...

January 08, 2014

7 @ 9: Florence and the machine

Blasphemy laws are being used for extortion because that's what blasphemy laws are for. The...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

‘Hell House,’ abortion, and the mute zombie children of Heaven

New Destiny's abortion mythology posits that every fertilized egg is a fully human person, and...

October 30, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars

A barbershop sermon for the ages; the religious right is not in retreat; a Dozen...