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July 2021

July 14, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 3)

This is not how translation is supposed to work because this is not how reading...

July 13, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’ (part 2)

It would be one thing if the "bondservant" Bible had been produced in 1830, but...

July 12, 2021

‘For you were [redacted] in Egypt’: Concordance-ism and the ESV (part 1)

Clobber-texting concordance-ists resort to "Bible modification" because they still don't know how to read.

April 2021

April 13, 2021

No use wishing now for any other sin

"Complementarianism" is a traditional Christian teaching -- if by "traditional" you mean it dates all...

March 2021

March 20, 2021

Born at the same time

Literalistic biblicism was -- and is -- an essential, influential political tool for preventing any...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Fundamentalist diversity disproves fundamentalism

What I accidentally learned from the pragmatic detente between charismatic and anti-charismatic Christians at my...

January 2019

January 22, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (1.22.19)

Ben Okri, Susan Shaw, Katherine Stewart, Talia Levin, and Yochai Benkler have some smart things...

January 14, 2019

‘Hear him howling around your kitchen door’

"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

Religious-right ‘prophets’ say Trump will cure cancer

We now have at least two white evangelical "prophets" teaching that some evil cabal of...

November 08, 2018

The balance comes due some day

An illustration of what Orwell means by "nationalism." Plus: the devil as fodder for, and...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Jackleg theologies

The same folks who advocate the perspicuity of scriptures always wind up clarifying what it...

March 2018

March 05, 2018

‘I think he may have done something during the election’

A "spiritual autobiography" of Donald Trump gets the review it deserves. Plus: Some recent links...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

The full treatment

White evangelical scholars are suspicious of any hermeneutic of suspicion, and thus are insufficiently suspicious...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

Concordance-ism is not your friend

Concordance-ism -- the practice of determining "what the Bible says" about a given thing by...

January 12, 2018

White evangelicalism vs. missionaries

The missionaries being supported by white evangelicalism are no longer, themselves, white evangelicals. Missionaries have,...

January 10, 2018

Moody people

Is this the tale of a brave whistleblower fired by corrupt administrators? Or is it...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

Fundraisers of the Lost Ark

Every version of the perennial story about "ark hunters" shares three features: 1) They haven't...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Biblical Archaeology Review

"Every archaeology find ... has only proved the authenticity of the Bible" makes no sense...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

A story about stories

The poem I posted yesterday is one of my favorites because it was one of...

September 04, 2017

(Leans forward, whispers) ‘Sola scriptura’ is not a thing

We've had 500 years to test this theory of How to Read a Text and...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

On the “Nashville Statement”

The conservative evangelical "Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” released a manifesto reiterating their anti-LGBT...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Eugene Peterson Gets Ciziked

Peterson heard the gatekeepers' threats and, it seems, he got "The Message."

June 2017

June 29, 2017

The Defenders of Slavery Taught us How to Bible

Consider the actual mechanism at work in that “Bible debate” over slavery. Consult the concordance...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Some questions about DE and AiG

What do our friends the young-Earth creationists make of diatomaceous earth? Here, after all, is...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Captain Kirk, the Green Woman, and the Bible

She must have been one of Kirk's romantic conquests, right? If you had asked me...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

Go and learn what this means — the bad-faith ‘biblical’ defense of injustice (part 4)

The difference is justice. Justice is the necessary ingredient without which no worship, prayer, assembly,...

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 29, 2016

Jesus never read ‘The Bible’

"How can we know the way?" Thomas asks. "Read the Bible," says the evangelical preacher...