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November 2016

November 17, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (11.17)

Celia Riley, Seth Stevenson, and Jonathan Martin respond to the election. Ruth Ben-Ghiat on looking...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Consent is necessary. This is not complicated.

Consent is necessary. This is the first, unavoidable aspect of any sexual ethics or ethical...

October 13, 2016

‘This is disgraceful. It is intolerable.’

Nothing I could write today would be as timely, wise or eloquent as the speech...

October 12, 2016

Team Because vs. Team Despite

My framework for viewing Donald Trump's campaign in the 2016 general election involves seeing his...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

No, ‘SJW’ is not used to deflate pompous Comstockian moralists. That’s not how it’s used at all.

The Internet is open to the public. We can Google, search on Facebook and Twitter,...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Postcards from the culture wars (8.24)

"Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of...

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 27, 2016

With these hands, with these hands

Walter Hagen said great athletes “Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

That one time Muhammad Ali met with Billy Graham demonstrates, yet again, the huge change...

May 2016

May 14, 2016

Calling out in transit

The male leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are now mumbling about maybe, some day,...

May 06, 2016

Postcards from the culture wars (5.6)

"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this...

May 03, 2016

That rug really tied the room together

When a New Jersey school board member posts Facebook diatribes railing against immigrants and saying...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

OotGOism: ‘Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it …’

Mychal Denzel Smith: "When your self-conception is centered on the idea of your own goodness,...

April 27, 2016

White evangelicals and ‘the social upheaval of the ’60s’

Usually, this is stated with a polite euphemism. We don't name all of these things...

April 20, 2016

The Revolution is just a T-shirt away

Voting isn't supposed to be about "providing me with indulgence and satisfaction." It's not a...

April 12, 2016

I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is doing something that doesn’t rhyme

Gordon Klingenschmitt is the kind of far-right fringe nut-job who gives most other far-right fringe...

April 12, 2016

Postcards from the culture wars (4.12)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Donald Trump did not know the Standard Answer on criminalizing abortion

The Standard Answer is this: "Of course no one is talking about putting women in...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

White guys in charge frustrated by their inability to silence all women (Part MXVII)

There's a pattern here with angry authoritarian men like Falwell getting puffed up with indignation...

January 21, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (1.21)

Ursula K. LeGuin reminds her local paper that public land belongs to the public. Maria...

January 11, 2016

Wheaton’s official story collapses

New reports clearly demonstrate he disingenuous pretense of the administration's focus on "theological concerns" about...

January 10, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (1.10)

Tim Cunningham on the people who kept you from getting Ebola. Larry R. Morrison on...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Tribune report contradicts Wheaton’s sanctimonious official story

This stinks to high heaven. Wheaton loves to think of itself as the "Harvard of...

December 16, 2015

Wheaton College suspends its own credibility

It's impossible to see Wheaton College's abrupt suspension of Prof. Hawkins as anything other than...

December 14, 2015

That time when five women sued God and won

Everybody is familiar with the story of Noah in the Bible, but many people don't...

December 03, 2015

What it seems to be all about then

It's a funny scene for what it is -- a child's childish fantasy of the...

December 02, 2015

LifeWay Research gets it backwards on abortion

"Women Distrust Church on Abortion" reads the headline from the Southern Baptist LifeWay Research, announcing...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Liberation vs. tribalism

"In order to maintain a voice within the evangelical world and make progress on a...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (10.15)

Dahlia Lithwick on "Carly Fiorina's Big Lie." Therese Oneill looks at "the terrifying medical logic...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

Sunday WTF?

"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or...