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March 2018

March 27, 2018

Young-Earth Creationism is Cruel

Young-earth creationism is a cruelly efficient machine for manufacturing spiritual crisis. It has created more...

March 26, 2018

The plague in the Panhandle

"There are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Progressive Evangelicals and Required Stances on ‘Issues’

It doesn't seem like a corrupt bargain. It doesn't seem like a bargain of any...

February 11, 2018

‘Progressive Evangelical’ is a Not-Quite-Right Name for a Not-Quite-Left Thing

So, OK, let's talk about "progressive evangelicals." That's not a perfectly accurate description, but it...

February 09, 2018

The Grandma story

Throughout her life, my grandmother insisted that she, as a woman, must never "usurp authority"...

February 01, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (2.1)

William J. Barber, Jemar Tisby, Ursula LeGuin, Rachael Denhollander, and Jamelle Bouie are talking. We...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

I Want To Love, But It Comes Out Wrong

Some Tuesday morning thoughts and links, including: Churches avoiding poor communities; some bullies are also...

January 14, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (1.14)

Sarah Stillman on "When Deportation Is a Death Sentence;" Mukul Kesavan on murderous majoritarianism; Amy...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

All a lot of oysters but no pearls

Wherein we resist the urge to try to make the Final Post of the Year...

December 04, 2017

It’s Advent: You better watch out

I'm not a stickler for enforcing the Advent/Christmas distinction outside of church. I don't want...

December 01, 2017

The Muslims who keep the peace at Christianity’s holiest site

I guess how I view this long, true story depends on what kind of mood...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Blasphemy

"A majority of white voters backed a candidate who assured them that they will never...

November 13, 2017

Churches List Themselves as Unsafe for Children

The pastors of these churches chose, on their own, to come forward and to announce...

November 08, 2017

‘They are filled with new wine’

Part of what the disciples were struggling with, I think, was the mistaken idea that...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Smart people saying smart things (10.31.17)

Rebecca Traister on how "Our National Narratives Are Still Being Shaped by Lecherous, Powerful Men."...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

The church of rock and roll

This is, I think, a lovely story. It's about coming together to help bear each...

September 08, 2017

‘When necessary, use words’

Two very different groups of American Christians put out statements this week. (Yes, again. More...

August 2017

August 27, 2017

Student’s paper shows promise

More troubling is the way the student doesn't seem to have integrated the subject into...

August 02, 2017

Geist und wurst

Mapping the locations of Outback Steakhouses and Olive Gardens does not reveal anything Satanic. Mapping...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

If we confess our sins

At this point in the sermon, pastors often balk and attempt to do the impossible...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

Anxious, overbearing parents glad for return of ‘Brio’

Brio is back. Focus on the Family is resurrecting its magazine targeting the teenage girls...

April 05, 2017

Why we can’t have Nice Things (cont’d.)

I still retain my evangelical impulse to look at any massive social injustice and think:...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

I’m guessing it’s named after the other Philip

"So who were Saints Philip and James?" The question involved the namesakes of a local...

March 21, 2017

The audacious claim that we are not shaped by history

Every facet of white evangelical Christianity as it exists in America today is based on...

March 15, 2017

Causes and effects

The very same survey data they've collected might demonstrate something very different from what they're...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The Pearly Gates are never, ever closed

The Pearly Gates of Heaven are a cliché image in popular culture. Every time a...

February 20, 2017

A super-massive black hole and why I don’t like worship music

Many of the songs and choruses that make up our "worship music" claim to be...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

‘To keep oneself unstained by the world’

Purity is the main thing here, after all -- retaining the unsullied perfection of our...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

‘Therefore, we are saved by hope’

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing...

July 02, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (7.2)

Sonia Sotomayor on lawless police; Ben Moberg on Orlando; Loretta Lynch on being seen; Alex...