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February 2016

February 04, 2016

Marco Rubio and the Hebrew Congregation of Newport

To Sen. Marco Rubio, President Obama's visit yesterday to a Baltimore mosque was "divisive." Obama's...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Advent Calendar, Day Whatever

What should you do when some offense-addicted hegemon sneers a weaponized "Merry Christmas" at you,...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

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

September 2015

September 03, 2015

Everyone says love is a labor

Former Southern Baptist "ethics" spokesman Richard Land is still talking. Land is still utterly baffled...

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

Triple murder: ‘Ritualistic Presbyterian killing planned to coincide with the Blue Moon’

There was absolutely nothing about this crime scene that should have made any police officer...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The gospel according to 1 Corinthians 13 (part 1)

We all know love when we see it. And when we see the genuine article,...

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 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...

June 04, 2015

‘They made me feel welcome’

So just imagine this happens to you, at your church. You arrive for the Sunday...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

For some it’s a con, for some it’s a game, and for some it’s a gnostic cult. And sometimes it’s all three at once.

I used to think that the audience supporting any given conspiracy theory was made up...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

In ‘Mark of the Beast’ case, EEOC defends the religious liberty to belief it thereby proves to be factually untrue

Religious liberty, if it is ever to mean anything at all, must include the freedom...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

Holding the hand that had fired a gun at his heart

Some links for your Friday evening, including: Nothing says Christmas like bullying the Jews; the...

December 01, 2014

It’s a Marvel comic book, Saturday matinee fairy tale, boy

Some Monday morning linkage, including: Why the burning of a black church isn't "news;" Canadian...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

And you’ll only drink milk from a Christian cow

Some links for Buy Nothing Day, including: another bit of false prophecy from Tim LaHaye;...

November 13, 2014

There is no spoon. There are no facts. There is no truth. Here’s what it looks like when you trade reality for power.

The Liar Tony Perkins provides yet another illustration of what David Roberts calls "postmodern conservatism,"...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

You can fight City Hall (but if you take them to court, they get lawyers, too)

Fighting City Hall doesn't automatically make you the Good Guy. But it doesn't automatically make...

October 06, 2014

Religious pluralism is a fact (not a belief system)

"Religious pluralism [is] the idea that all religions are basically the same." That statement is...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

‘You don’t have any Baptist ministers going on jihad’

Santorum's invocation of "Baptist ministers" above shows that he doesn't understand that history. And it...

September 25, 2014

Memphis in the meantime baby

Action News -- and the Jay-walking embarrassments they find to contribute to their ignoramus-on-the-street interviews...

August 2014

August 10, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (8.10)

Leslie Callahan on what Christians should be boycotting; a modest suggestion from Valerie Tarico; Samantha...

August 06, 2014

‘Persecution’: Waiting for war or the end of the world

Alan Noble: "The problem is that for most of U.S. history, Christians haven’t been persecuted...

July 2014

July 20, 2014

Paint the grace you’re given

The Sunday afternoon links have landed, including: Furry, cotton-tailed Marxists; why biblical genealogies aren't as...

July 08, 2014

Seeking ‘religious liberty’ just like Elijah at Kishon

When you're trying to paint your political opponents as evil baby-killers, it doesn't work to...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

A case of the collywobbles

"Somebody got the collywobbles," Blake Kirk said. Savor the perfection of that. That's the precisely...

June 25, 2014

Heterosexual marriage still unthreatened in all 50 states

No-fault divorce laws did not mandate that Catholic priests had to start sanctifying remarriages. The...

June 23, 2014

Forget about those kids, real, true Christians are the real victims here

This story is several months old, but it's worth revisiting, I think, because it illustrates...

June 04, 2014

The sleep walk never ends

A few things, including: Sunday school malpractice; Alice's hippie Jesus; an unfortunate billboard; Ararat and...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (5.30)

Julian of Norwich says, "so verily God is our Mother." Vixen Strangely on "Men Who...

May 20, 2014

You want much more than I’m giving

Superlatives are the worst. Mike Warnke is making a comeback. It's cruel to take teenagers...