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July 2017

July 18, 2017

‘What made it possible for him to see?’

In an essay on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Stanley Hauerwas asks "What made it possible for him...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Christian nationalism and white nationalism

Kelly J. Baker studied one of the darker corners of American history, writing Gospel According...

June 20, 2017

Southern Baptists still think of white supremacy as a ‘stain’

The Southern Baptist Convention has passed an official resolution on racism. I'm happy to report...

June 06, 2017

Soap, soup, and support for Supreme Court nominees who will overturn Roe v. Wade

It seems to me that this Great Commission objection has waned in the 21st century....

May 2017

May 30, 2017

‘The WHY of this turn to the body’

This is key: "The why of this turn toward the body ... remains an important...

May 11, 2017

That’s my secret, Captain …

Anger, we're told, will eat you alive and make you unhappy. And that can be...

May 03, 2017

Spell C-A-L-H-O-U-N across the steel grey sky

Donald Trump's comments on the Civil War are surprisingly ignorant, even when accounting for the...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Sanctuary and ‘civil disobedience’ (part 2)

This is the difference between Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. Parks effectively and strategically practiced...

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...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

We would have taken part with them

When we first learn about the hanging of witches in Salem or wherever else, we...

February 08, 2017

But you can’t expect to be bright and bon vivant

The most important (and interesting) thing about outrageous fake news and ridiculous lies from politicians...

February 08, 2017

Smart people saying smart things (2.8.17)

Coretta Scott King on why Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has proved himself an enemy of voting...

February 07, 2017

I’m just weary to my bones

Wherein I amend my earlier discussion of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the timid poetry editor who...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

Go and learn what this means — the bad-faith ‘biblical’ defense of injustice (part 3)

The problem for those attempting to argue that Douglass' rhetoric was anti-Bible is that his...

January 10, 2017

Go and learn what this means — the bad-faith ‘biblical’ defense of injustice (part 2)

"This horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity. For my part, I...

January 09, 2017

Go and learn what this means — the bad-faith ‘biblical’ defense of injustice (part 1)

The faction defending the status quo is -- correctly -- portrayed as the "conservative" side....

December 2016

December 21, 2016

The clarity of a dead end

Here we are. The wrong road that white evangelicalism has stubbornly been following has led...

December 09, 2016

The unjust piety of ‘safe evangelical environments,’ from Oney Judge to Larycia Hawkins

"She says that the stories told of Washington's piety and prayers, so far as she...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken

Some Monday links now that I've finally got our Christmas lights up and working: A...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

Oh yeah? Well what about Robert Byrd?

Any discussion of Trumpian racism is likely to be changed, abruptly, into a discussion of...

September 01, 2016

White evangelicals’ ‘new chapter’ on race (cont’d.)

This granting of permission is welcome, even if it is at the same time deeply...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

‘[White] evangelicals and race — a new chapter’?

That multi-car accident of a sentence starts with the reaffirmation of "mainstream white evangelical leaders"...

August 18, 2016

That time when a terrorist attack struck the Olympic Games

Both Ryan Lochte's clumsy cover story and the media's initial credulous acceptance of it reveal...

August 18, 2016

Guys like us, we had it made …

If you ask those of us who are 18-53 years old for our opinions about...

August 12, 2016

Makin’ sure your soul’s all right

Christianity Today interviews Nate Parker about his film "The Birth of a Nation," which is,...

August 09, 2016

‘The Supreme Court’ doesn’t mean abortion — it means Shelby County

White evangelicals vote based on the Supreme Court. The best that can be said for...

August 08, 2016

Been 40 days since I don’t know when

A Virginia Grand Wizard is speaking out in favor of Wayne Grudem's moral imperative: "The...

August 07, 2016

Tales from the Dark Side

The same challenge Jenkins is tackling here faces any Christian who attempts to consider what...

August 01, 2016

And if you float you burn

"This is a round up," featuring two very different analyses of two very different candidates'...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

The sins of the fathers

"Few people had more influence on Billy Graham than Bell," reads the Wikipedia entry for...