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June 2026

June 08, 2026

Jesus loves me, this I know, for Pete Hegseth tells me so

Establishment is a prison for the established religion just as much as it is for...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

Without religious pluralism you can’t be evangelical

In 2024, in America, the vast majority of white evangelicals want to do away with...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

JD Vance and the Flushing Remonstrance

People did not enjoy living through three centuries of war, instability, uncertainty, and religious turmoil....

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Party like it’s 1689

Paleo-Calvinists think other people are totally depraved and irredeemable. But not them. And not the...

June 20, 2024

Maybe they should post the 10 Commandments in mega-churches?

Gateway Church in Texas is now pretending they never even met Robert Morris.

June 05, 2024

A necessary, but usually misused, word

With white pastors calling for an "American Caesar" and a "Protestant Franco," the word "antichrist"...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Louisiana will post the Twelve Commandments in schools

The 12 commandments mandated for Louisiana schools are not from the Bible. They're from a...

February 2024

February 19, 2024

A teleological vision of the good stomping on a human face

Liberalism can't tell you what determines a good human life, but the king or dictator...

October 2023

October 15, 2023

Got to pick up every stitch

Witches and witch-hunters are in the news. And not just because it's October.

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 2023

May 01, 2023

Which Ten Commandments? Which God?

Thou shalt have no other gods before Phil.

April 2023

April 11, 2023

The Satanic Panic Never Ended (cont’d.)

"Outrageous accusations, horrible accusations, accusations that, in hindsight, have all been proven false were made...

April 04, 2023

Slouching away from Bethlehem

A lot of Christian nationalists are Baptists, and vice versa. But those two things shouldn't...

March 2023

March 08, 2023

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

The Flushing Remonstrance called for the religious pluralism that defines New York City. People just...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

No one expects, etc.

Religious establishment inevitably changes the official, established religion. And never in a good way.

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Soap, soup, and salvation

• Good piece from Matthew Avery Sutton, "[White] Evangelicals are one step closer to the...

October 21, 2021

‘Prayer in schools’ is almost never about prayer in schools

If someone tells you they're upset about Engel v. Vitale, then nine times out of...

August 2021

August 22, 2021

Anti-vaxx, anti-medicine nurses (8 years ago)

"Phillips is pretending that this is a civil liberties case akin to the defense of...

July 2021

July 07, 2021

Incentivizing religious insincerity

This is the problem with an approach that simultaneously presumes sincerity and makes the presumed...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Rendering unto

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

June 24, 2021

Christian nationalism vs. the children’s catechism

Q: Why did God make you and all things? A: God made me and all...

June 15, 2021

Borne from original sin

"I've a message for you that you'd better believe believe believe believe ..."

May 2021

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 30, 2021

Stuyvesant’s ghost

Started to respond to something else, then got distracted by this ugly wraith.

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Catching up on reading The Friendly Atheist

Creationist pop songs, school board exegesis, grade-school apostasy, the separation of church and state, and...

March 12, 2021

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.12.21)

"But God will not take away a life; God will devise plans so as not...

March 01, 2021

When Madison Cawthorn sort of went to a sort of college

How did a 25-year-old who flunked out of college after convincing more than half the...

February 2021

February 14, 2021

Postcards from the class & culture wars (2.14.21)

"Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying...

February 11, 2021

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland

Jesus was not a Jeep commercial. Plus: A strange guest star, a strange arrest, and...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

Postcards from the class & culture wars (12.29.20)

"Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn...