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October 2012

October 29, 2012

Revisionist memory: White evangelicals have always been at war with abortion

White American evangelicals are "pro-life." This is the single most important political aspect of American...

October 28, 2012

The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 2)

Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious...

October 26, 2012

The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 1)

Richard Mourdock et. al. are appealing to an expansive-but-shallow "all things work together for good"...

October 24, 2012

No 5k for the biggest killer — so does anyone really believe it’s a killer?

Name a disease and there's a charitable research foundation committed to finding a cure, and...

October 20, 2012

‘Patriarchy is about power and control’

Danielle @ From Two to One responds to a "complementarian" straight-up dropping the c-bomb; Cheryl...

October 09, 2012

Chick-fil-A’s Biblical Family of the Day

"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Akin to be

"That’s not so much outrageous as just so wildly ignorant that you wonder whether someone...

August 21, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin’s views typical in anti-abortion religious right

Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's future as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate may be...

August 21, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin’s views typical in southern PCA churches

So right now there's a political and media firestorm over a creepy white Southern man...

August 19, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin exposes the horrific immorality of moralism

This post is about a tea-party Republican politician's understanding of sex, morality and rape. So...

August 14, 2012

An invitation to participate in a community of deception

Recently in comments, we were invited to participate in a community of deception. The entry-point...

August 10, 2012

‘Pro-life’ groups still silent on protecting pregnant workers

A few weeks ago we looked at the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (HR 5647), a...

August 07, 2012

Battling imaginary Satanic baby-killers in Utah and Ohio

This is a disingenuous diatribe against Satanic baby-killers that exist only as an urban legend....

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Wheaton College, C.S. Lewis & Bad Jackie: On preferring the nightmare to reality

One unappealing possibility is that Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton College, is making his clumsy...

July 23, 2012

Dear Wheaton College Biology department faculty: Please correct Ryken’s mistake and/or lie regarding Plan B

TO: Dr. Jennifer Busch, Dr. Raymond Lewis, Dr. L. Kristen Page, Dr. Pattle Pak-Toe Pun,...

July 17, 2012

Why aren’t ‘pro-life’ groups backing legal protection for pregnant women?

Sheila Bapat describes the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Amber Reeves, a pregnant truck driver …...

July 04, 2012

Why liars for Jesus can’t be believed when they say they’re anti-abortion

If you denounce the Affordable Care Act because it's "the biggest expansion of abortion and...

June 2012

June 23, 2012

What doth it profit religious demagogues to gain direct mail millions and lose their souls?

Jane Mayer's New Yorker profile of culture warrior Bryan Fischer -- the American Family Association's...

June 21, 2012

‘Bible Believers’ who do not know, or care, what the Bible says

Joe Jervis relays a Twitter exchange between Anderson Cooper and some other Joe: For...

June 11, 2012

‘The Big Four’ — ‘the package deal of Christianity’

Jonathan Dudley in Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics: I...

May 2012

May 05, 2012

The ‘Big Four’ markers of the evangelical tribe

Not all of the Big Four carry equal weight. I've commended Jonathan Dudley's excellent book,...

May 04, 2012

The boundaries of the evangelical tribe are political

David Sessions offers some interesting thoughts on the Rev. Billy Graham's unusual decision to aggressively...

February 2012

February 18, 2012

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

In 1979, McDonald's introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the...

February 06, 2012

Poor women’s health as ‘political bargaining chip’

William D. Lindsey is not pleased that his church's leaders are rallying all their political...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

While we’re on the subject of abortion politics …

A link-dump of recent articles on the politics of abortion. Steven Brill: "Stories I'd Like...

January 24, 2012

Let’s condemn violence before it happens

Every time an incident of violence targeting abortion providers makes the news, most anti-abortion groups...

January 24, 2012

Abortion politics and the corrosive sin of pride

Franciscan brother Daniel Horan explains why he does not support the annual "March for Life"...

January 07, 2012

‘Harmful, domineering and controlling’

David Moore at the Burner blog really, really, really does not like Mark Driscoll's new...

January 05, 2012

‘To intimidate or coerce a civilian population’

Melissa McEwan at Shakesville notes that this Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was...

January 03, 2012

Say anything to take us out of this gloom

Here's Amanda Marcotte on "Why the Iowa Caucus Is About Abortion": If the Iowa caucus...