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October 2021

October 14, 2021

How come I can’t see you in my mirror?

Notes on Tonio K., Bruce Cockburn, Amy Grant, and the Devil's music.

October 31, 2020

A More Perfect Union

Since I got my Garrison on earlier this week, I've been listening again to one...

October 29, 2019

White evangelicals love Kanye’s Carman album

Embracing white evangelical culture wars and white evangelical politics, Kanye West records ... well, basically...

October 10, 2019

I know I’m supposed to say ‘Jesus,’ but it sure sounds more like a squirrel to me

• When I was a kid back in the early 1970s, our small town's library...

January 2019

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...

June 2018

June 05, 2018

Fly, Iggles, fly

The crowd for the Eagles Super Bowl parade was much, much larger than the crowd...

April 2018

April 03, 2018

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to attend the ‘Stronger Men’s Conference’

Christian men desperately searching for meaning and purpose will pay good money to attend a...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

The truth will only kill us both

Remembering the Sabbath and keeping it holy. Plus: Why ostriches are cool and Job is...

March 15, 2018

They blew up the chicken man in Philly

This might all seem like old news — a bit of pop culture legend involving...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

I don’t want another pretender

White evangelicalism, Trump hagiographies, some timely words from Rod Serling, a welcome return, the difficulty...

January 2018

January 18, 2018

It’s never quite as it seems

Bethesda Academy -- originally an orphanage founded by George Whitefield -- has a long, fascinating...

December 2017

December 04, 2017

It’s Advent: You better watch out

I'm not a stickler for enforcing the Advent/Christmas distinction outside of church. I don't want...

October 2017

October 02, 2017

Pick up the receiver

"Hallowed by thy name," Richard Beck suggests, is a petition, not a statement of praise....

July 2017

July 04, 2017

Hey, baby, it’s the Fourth of July

Theological musings for Independence Day, from Frederick Douglass and Martina McBride. Plus a parable from...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

I can’t forget the glamour

Today is the centennial of the birth of Ella Fitzgerald, and thus a day worth...

April 12, 2017

I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly

Michele Bachmann still treats "Left Behind" as a how-to manual for politics. White Christians in...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

I guess we’ll have to wait and see

Let's relax and take a deep breath with an almost completely Trump-free post, featuring the...

March 01, 2017

‘Where I come from’ we claim universal generalities as our peculiar virtues

"Folks 'round here love their families," the Very Nice man says. "We value hard work...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Monday Monday tekel upharsin

If you wrote something that was half in poetry and half in prose, you'd probably...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

When trouble comes to town

Some Thursday night odds-and-ends, including: Why the Cubs' win will provoke an identity crisis for...

November 01, 2016

This is where we draw the line

"(We Don't Need No) Color Code," is a raucous, righteous middle finger directed at Bob...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

The past is gone but something might be found to take its place

For a change of pace, here's a post about something other than Donald Trump. Let's...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Electric word, life, it means forever

Live TV, prime time, national stage. "Baby I'm a ...." He swats the mic stand...

April 06, 2016

Are the good times really over for good?

Merle Haggard wrote and sang some terrific songs, and he collaborated and hung out with...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

OK, I finally figured out what song that creepy "Always Submit to the Church Administration"...

February 03, 2016

There were voices down the corridor

Ah yes, the "Hotel California" urban legend, widely embraced by white evangelicals eager to believe...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Saturday music open thread

Gladys Knight's version of "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" seems like...

January 11, 2016

Ashes to ashes

"The son of a waitress and a nightclub owner, David Jones became David Bowie, who...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

Advent Calendar, Day Five: Magnificat Is Coming to Town

"The kids in girl and boy land," the song says, "will have a Jubilee." But...

December 03, 2015

Advent Calendar Day 3

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. But for every Rudolph and Frosty,...