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July 2026

July 22, 2026

It’s not ‘pick and choose.’ It’s pick a side.

Reading the Bible is not about choosing texts. It's about choosing sides.

March 2026

March 28, 2026

Team Everybody sliding into our DMs

In the intra-biblical argument between inclusion and exclusion, between Team Everybody and Team Jonah, you...

March 25, 2026

Texts of terror? Terrific!

A star-studded line up of MAGA celebrities is planning to read the entire Bible, out...

October 2025

October 07, 2025

The phantom menace of biblical chronology

Bible fandom could learn a lot from Star Wars fandom.

August 2025

August 12, 2025

I got an A on my 6th-grade Bible class mid-term

An artifact of 1970s white fundamentalism helps us see what has, and hasn't, changed in...

February 2024

February 08, 2024

Stick it to the Man

"And yet in most translations -- and, more generally, in Christian consciousness -- [the Man]...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

Amos and Acts

You are precious and special and infinitely loved. And so is everyone else.

February 2023

February 03, 2023

The other way around (More on slavery and ‘how to interpret the Bible’)

White Christians in antebellum America did not come to accept slavery because of their biblicism....

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Slavery and ‘how to interpret the Bible’ (cont’d.)

The claim that one is arguing based on "the Bible alone -- on nothing more...

January 30, 2023

Slavery and ‘the question of how to interpret the Bible’

Sola scriptura biblicism was supposed to provide an authoritative final arbiter for all disputes. That...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

When concordance-ism eats itself

Chapter and verse, buddy. Chapter. And. Verse. It doesn't get any more evangelical than that.

March 2022

March 15, 2022

‘Onesimus’

When white Christians enslaved people and stole their labor, we liked to display our piety...

January 2022

January 06, 2022

Dry bones dance

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

November 2021

November 13, 2021

Jeremiah in Ireland, CRT, and ‘Who Wrote the Bible?’

How a Christian nationalist whackjob accidentally introduced me to a winsome YouTube introduction to biblical...

October 2021

October 01, 2021

A Ruthless reading in the RCL

Don't you dare preach about "Jesus' teaching on divorce" without mentioning the wickedness of Ezra.

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Feeling unknown and you’re all alone

That blasphemous billboard isn't the only example of Christians missing the point of Isaiah 9.

September 23, 2021

A night with Lot in Sodom: On meteors and memory

This is a fascinating tale: "A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze...

September 15, 2021

The IMDB “Goofs” page for the book of Genesis

"M*A*S*H" isn't really about Korea. It's about Vietnam. And The Ten Commandments isn't really about...

July 2021

July 21, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 4, a slight tangent)

Reading anything in translation always requires a great deal of trust in the capability and...

July 19, 2021

Revisiting Highway 61: All you know is love

We know only in part. And so certain knowledge cannot be the standard for determining...

July 14, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 3)

This is not how translation is supposed to work because this is not how reading...

July 13, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 2)

It would be one thing if the "bondservant" Bible had been produced in 1830, but...

July 12, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’: Concordance-ism and the ESV (part 1)

Clobber-texting concordance-ists resort to "Bible modification" because they still don't know how to read.

May 2021

May 29, 2021

The biblical genealogies summarized: STFU, Ezra

If I were invited to preach at W.A. Criswell's church, I'd choose the same passage...

May 18, 2021

Yes that’s the book for me

Been reading the Bible, and reading stuff about the Bible. Here's some of it.

April 2021

April 19, 2021

‘Biblical families,’ an index

Here, for your convenience, is an easier-to-navigate index of our Chick-fil-A Biblical Family of the...

April 15, 2021

Sapphira is a model of ‘complementarian biblical womanhood’

Ananias and Sapphira are one of the very, very few biblical examples of "marriage between...

April 13, 2021

No use wishing now for any other sin

"Complementarianism" is a traditional Christian teaching -- if by "traditional" you mean it dates all...

March 2021

March 20, 2021

Born at the same time

Literalistic biblicism was -- and is -- an essential, influential political tool for preventing any...

March 02, 2021

We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field

Put me in, coach. I'm ready to play.