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May 2016

May 10, 2016

The Rod D. Horror Picture Show

Rod Dreher's story never happened. The Bad Jackie of the tough Texas suburbs -- if...

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 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...

November 2015

November 22, 2015

We, Titus

This isn't just the "Constantinian" thinking that Empire-criticism theologians constantly rail against. It's worse than...

November 10, 2015

Rothko’s ‘War on Christmas’ (1950, oil on paper)

October 2015

October 08, 2015

‘Who gets a casserole?’

When hardship comes good neighbors often reach out to help. And often that means bringing...

September 2015

September 03, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (9.3)

Jon Corvino on why renegade Kentucky clerk is not a conscientious objector. Julie Ingersoll on...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Postcards from the culture wars (8.6)

"The commandments -- 'You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Organ and tissue donation saves lives

"The pathologist and the technologist have been known to clasp hands over the body, even...

July 20, 2015

I can chew like a cannibal, I can yell like a cat

I don't really know what a professional ethicist going into private practice would look like,...

July 15, 2015

Satanic baby-killers are putting dead babies in Pepsi!

You can learn a lot on the Internet. Today, for example, I learned that Pepsi...

July 15, 2015

It’s not gullibility; it’s malice. (C.S. Lewis is right and Ed Stetzer is wrong.)

Gullibility is a kind of innocence -- an honest mistake. But gullibility is not the...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Kick a gay, keep your platform: Tribal gatekeepers of white evangelicalism demand their tribute be paid

Why revisit this post now? Because the original post was a lamentation over my old...

June 12, 2015

Evil liberal media continues to persecute righteous white Christians by nitpicking about the sexual abuse of children

The Duggar scandal has reinforced support for Mike Huckabee among his chosen niche of white...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

‘We must be careful about what we pretend to be’: How tribal cheerleading creates new tribal dogma and changes the tribe to conform to it

Over time, these kinds of tribal-cheerleading responses to pollsters and other catechists eventually become required...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith (cont’d.)

Sustaining the kind of fantasy Linda Wall invites her readers to indulge in takes an...

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith

The culture warrior faith of the religious right is sometimes criticized for being overly negative....

February 2015

February 18, 2015

What if it were all true?

Here's the premise for a TV show: It's all true. Everything Pat Robertson says is...

February 09, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith you still need a decent DM

Strachan's fawning flattery is directed at an audience of conservative white Christians who love to...

February 04, 2015

She’s working double shifts to keep us fed

Vatican Guy No. 1: "How should we advertise our all-male conference on women?" Vatican Guy...

January 2015

January 17, 2015

Christian-brand publisher admits blatant scam book was a blatant scam

So, yeah, the book's descriptions of Heaven and angels and the afterlife were all just...

January 14, 2015

The Magic School Bus and the Satanic Panic that ate Christianity

The hallmark of white evangelical discipleship is feigned outrage. Evangelicalism in America takes its cue...

December 2014

December 21, 2014

The Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition (again)

Opposition to the burning of kittens is not what sets the members of the AKBC...

December 17, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (12.17)

Kathryn Schulz on the Mann Gulph wildfire and so very much more; Ezra Klein on...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Felicia Day summarizes what I’m trying to say to right-wing white evangelicals

"I know it feels good to belong to a group, to feel righteous in belonging...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

The case of the missing letter and the poisoning of the well

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is not pleased with my forthright translation of his column at The Week....

October 05, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (10.5)

David Sheff, "If You Want to See Inequality in the US at its Worst, Visit...

September 2014

September 08, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (9.8)

Dahlia Lithwick on the exoneration of Antonin Scalia's poster-child for the death penalty. Nancy Wilson...

September 08, 2014

So who is this Gary Cass guy?

Gary Cass is the pro-violence, pro-death guy who wants to kill a billion human beings....

July 2014

July 10, 2014

American Exceptionalism: A simple test of national character

Here is a video showing how Norwegian people respond when they encounter a child who...