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January 2019

January 15, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.15.19)

"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the...

January 07, 2019

And we’re not through yet

It's weird that no one is even bothering to attempt to say that Oklahoma isn't...

January 02, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.2.19)

"Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers....

December 2018

December 12, 2018

The pastor and the stolen election

The election-fraud story out of North Carolina is a doozy. The cast of characters seems to...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

‘No matter what the laws might be, you would honor yourself for doing it’

ICE agents emulate the tactics of slave-catchers from the 1850s, leading some North Carolina clergy...

November 08, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (11.8.18)

These smart things are good and beautiful and true, from: Gershom Gorenberg, Tara Isabella Burton,...

November 05, 2018

We try to control forgiveness because we know we need it

We know we need that forgiveness, desperately, and the realization that such forgiveness is out...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

‘They will inevitably learn and teach the wrong things’

"It is, you might well say, an elementary matter of justice."

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.20.18)

"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes;...

September 13, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (9.13.18)

Smart things from Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Adam Serwer, and Toni Bond...

September 05, 2018

The Gospel According to the Rumble Ponies

I would like to see Colin Kaepernick sign with the New York Mets. There are...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

Love is a burning thing …

I'm enjoying the new "Cloak and Dagger" series, even though it doesn't require super-powers to...

August 09, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (8.9.18)

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."

August 07, 2018

Stories with heroes and stories without them

There are no heroes working for CoreCivic, the incarceration-for-profit company that trades in human misery...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (7.2.18)

"The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

I am now an alarmist

We have become hyper-vigilant about not being perceived as hyper-vigilant. Nothing alarms us more than...

June 21, 2018

And you may say to yourself, ‘My God! What have I done?’

Yes, white evangelicalism created Scott Pruitt, but not in the way the article imagines. Also:...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

What the world needs now

If you were hoping for a brand new religious-right direct-mail fundraising racket run by Johnnie...

April 2018

April 08, 2018

Foxes have holes, birds have their nests

The family of groundhogs that have lived under our backyard shed have been replaced by...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

The Cold War before the culture war

Billy Graham's anti-Communism was an essential aspect of his message, his persona, and his popular...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

Something is ch-ch-ch-changing. Someone is giving a damn. And, just by doing so, they're demonstrating...

February 07, 2018

‘Bearing false witness’ is not a synonym for ‘lying’

It would be fine if the commandment said something like "Thou shalt not deliberately bear false...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Translating Away Justice

Came across this today on the Twitters, an important point well-expressed by Jemar Tisby:

October 2017

October 09, 2017

Fundamentalism is Not Conservatism (Biblically or Constitutionally)

The real dispute here is not between liberal and conservative traditions, but rather about the...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

The promissory note first, then you can talk about the dream

"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

If we confess our sins

At this point in the sermon, pastors often balk and attempt to do the impossible...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

The ‘work ethic’ can be unethical (part 1)

You should always work hard and do your best. This is a moral obligation. That...

May 10, 2017

Sanctions against sanctuary cities should not be sanctioned

It's a bit odd to be writing about this right after President Trump's audaciously Nixonian...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

Postcards from the class & culture wars (4.13.17)

"Yes, the strong gets more while the weak ones fade. Empty pockets don't ever make...

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...