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July 2024

July 16, 2024

‘The wicked will be swept away’

On the bleeding gods of Psalm 58.

June 2022

June 03, 2022

Love without blind spots

"Everyone"? What do you mean "we," Kemosabe?

November 2021

November 24, 2021

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse.

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Kids these days with their unholy justice

It's the whole Isaiah 1:10-17 rant again. Because we could say this all day every...

September 2021

September 06, 2021

Differing weights and measures

"An ancient stone weight dug up in Jerusalem has been found to be far heavier...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

The hopeful fruit of ‘I don’t know’

The white pastors and white congregations profiled here were wise enough to know what they...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.30.21)

"But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is...

February 2021

February 08, 2021

How Isaiah converted Israelites to secularism

From the perspective of normative white Christianity, Isaiah is urging God's people to abandon religion...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

I ain’t got no home in this world anymore

Three stories about people who don't know what "politics" means. Plus: Free spiritual advice, and...

September 25, 2020

Religion is not spell-casting

"I'm terribly sorry," God says. "I have to send you to Hell for eternity because...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Intra ecclesiam nulla salus (again)

To paraphrase 1 John, if you wish to know God, you would be wise never...

July 15, 2020

Look over your shoulder

When some people speak of "the '60s," they mostly mean the "sexual revolution." And what...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

The liturgy of ‘handicapped’ parking spaces

Before we talk about masks and about the weird, religiously politicized toxic indignation that causes...

June 19, 2020

The night before emancipation

Here again, for the fourth or fifth time, is an eyewitness account of President Lincoln...

June 16, 2020

When did an ambulance become an ambulance?

Not that long ago, an "ambulance" was little more than an airport shuttle for a...

June 11, 2020

Rerun: ‘Policing was never meant to solve all those problems’

We’re all connected to one another in all the various roles and responsibilities we have...

June 11, 2020

Rerun: First responders and guns (cont’d.)

When people with guns are summoned in an emergency, they sometimes respond as people with guns — whether...

June 10, 2020

Why police ought to support these protests

Imagine that you're the center fielder on a baseball team. But in order to save...

June 04, 2020

Redeeming the Nasty 19s

"This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we...

June 02, 2020

When police think they’re ‘punishers,’ they cease to be police

Punishment is not their job. Their badge doesn't cover that. Never has, never will. This...

June 01, 2020

Sir Robert Peel never came to America

Police are not soldiers, Sir Robert Peel said. And whenever they act like soldiers, they...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.19.20)

"Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the...

November 2019

November 06, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (11.6.19)

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

July 2019

July 23, 2019

‘We’ve come to cash a check’

"We’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the...

May 2019

May 20, 2019

Jubilation at graduation

A beautiful thing happened at Morehouse College's 2019 graduation ceremony. Jubilee isn't about giving; it's...

April 2019

April 02, 2019

Hell is a slander against God, and against the victims of evil

Jesus chased the money-changers out of the Temple with a whip of cords. The way...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Take it, it’s yours

Check out the late Luke Perry in "Jeremiah" and you'll learn something about the End...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (2.16.19)

Thomas Cranmer, Gabrielle Bellot and William Lindsey. Plus Stephanie Krehbiel on how "godly" men need...

February 13, 2019

Never been partial to shackles or chains

We tend to be more willing to forgive people like Edwards and Whitefield for being...

February 05, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (2.5.19)

"Love worketh no ill to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."