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October 2023

October 31, 2023

Morality clauses: Leo Durocher and the ‘Rise of the Nones’

"Woe to you, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and...

September 2023

September 20, 2023

‘Survey says …’

If the survey is accurate, then all we're telling readers is "Here's what you already...

May 2022

May 04, 2022

St. Brigid, pray for us

This was not a Secular vs. Catholic vote. It was a Devout Laypeople vs. Demonstrably...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

The Inquisition’s here and it’s here … to … staaaaay

The Inquisition is back in the news. As ever, that means chaos and cruelty.

January 2022

January 31, 2022

Jesse Gemstone and the Power Team

You can try to do a broad, over-the-top satire of the world of mega-churches and...

January 26, 2022

‘Are You All Right?’

You can be Andy Catlett or you can be Gladys Kravitz. One is better than...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

‘It was just what you did’

Some churches die, some are killed, and some get reborn as something else.

October 2021

October 07, 2021

The empty me-ism opposed to “MT Deism”

In short, if you hear anyone using "moral therapeutic deism" as an epithet, feel free...

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 17, 2021

And in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth

This is inevitable whenever a group of Christians whose culture-bound faith and practice is unexplored...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Bethlehem Baptist coddles white supremacy

Ignore the sideshow. This is a story about church leaders refusing to condemn white supremacy...

August 18, 2021

Clanging gongs and noisy cymbals

If all your church is doing is "worship," then whatever that is you're doing, it...

July 2021

July 24, 2021

Jesus on the mainline

"Mainline Protestantism" may be declining because it is a category created in order to measure...

July 06, 2021

Ain’t knowing where I been or where I came

"Right now, Christianity is not doing a particularly good job of recommending God to the...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Rendering unto

Most Christian political thinking has reinforced this anti-democratic, authoritarian tendency by failing to grapple with...

June 23, 2021

And the funny thing is it has no end

Scot McKnight ate his Wheaties. Plus: The retail exodus, a packaging pet-peeve, and articles that...

June 04, 2021

CRT: Calvinist Race Theory

America's long history of intrinsic, institutional, systemic racism is exactly the sort of thing that...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

The hopeful fruit of ‘I don’t know’

The white pastors and white congregations profiled here were wise enough to know what they...

May 14, 2021

The Flying Baptist and other stories

"I miss the good old days, when instead of meddling in politics, Baptist pastors just...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Safe and sound with nothing left to send

There's nothing wrong with playing cover songs -- unless you try to pass them off...

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 24, 2021

A cow eating grass

The travails of two branches of American white evangelicalism bring us back to the Hole...

March 08, 2021

This is not a pastoral problem with a pastoral solution

The eminently pastoral work of all of these good pastors isn't working. This is not...

March 04, 2021

Remember the girl with the beehive hairdo?

Am I the only one who sometimes gets Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler mixed up?

February 2021

February 09, 2021

To face unafraid the plans that we made

What exactly is the market for minimum-strength relief? Plus: A twisted tale from the SBC;...

February 08, 2021

How Isaiah converted Israelites to secularism

From the perspective of normative white Christianity, Isaiah is urging God's people to abandon religion...

February 07, 2021

Smart people saying smart things (2.7.21)

Lucas Kwong, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ari Berman, Carol Anderson, Rabbi Danya Rutenberg, and Dan Froomkin...

February 05, 2021

White Christianity and Copernicus

That's the hardest part of the Copernican revolution -- recognizing that the place we were...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

Singing Kumbaya with insurrectionists and antisemites

A white pastor asks "How can we move forward together?" with insurrectionists, white supremacists, and...

January 19, 2021

‘I fired them deacons’

"Once I found out what bothered them people, I preached the same message every Sunday....