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March 2014

March 26, 2014

Same old story, same old act: A song for World Vision, and for Jesus Jerks everywhere

"We’ve given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain’t learnin’ We’re the same...

March 26, 2014

The Gospel Coalition is very upset with those who refuse to participate in their lie

I can't even imagine what it would be like to attempt such a lie. Try...

March 25, 2014

If the comment section of Christianity Today reflects the state of Christianity today, then we need to burn the whole thing to the ground and start over

I do not believe, as it appears, that CT's comment thread is the work of...

March 25, 2014

How evangelical gatekeepers mistake extortion for leadership: A story

The playwright's husband was a Brit, and evangelical Christians in the UK don't carry the...

March 21, 2014

Satanic baby-killers have destroyed American Christianity

"This woman right here? Believes in killing babies. That man believes in killing babies. That...

March 20, 2014

Bill Gothard’s sexual coercion is a feature of Gothardism

If you ever heard of Gothard's Institute and his teachings, then you also heard rumors...

March 19, 2014

Defensive Pensacola Christian College offers second, slightly less appalling, statement

PCC's president, Troy Shoemaker, has addressed allegations of sexual assault at the school in a...

March 18, 2014

White evangelicals getting ready to rewrite the Bible. Again.

It has happened before and, as Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux shows, it is happening again. History will,...

March 17, 2014

Sex abuse in the church: Demonizing the demonic at Charisma magazine

For Jennifer LeClaire and for Charisma, sexual abuse in the church and in religious institutions...

March 14, 2014

Abuse at Pensacola and Bob Jones, and you (and me, too)

Without stubborn, persistent anger, Tamara Rice says, the sex-abuse scandals at fundamentalist institutions will likely...

March 14, 2014

Pensacola, the IFB Bubble and the world wide Web

IFB churches and schools like Pensacola Christian College have tried to withdraw from the world...

March 13, 2014

Pensacola Christian College responds with a non-response

Pensacola's response is not unusual. We've seen many other institutions bare their fangs in that...

March 12, 2014

We won’t come back from Dead Man’s Curve

Imagine a world in which the stuff Pat Robertson says was actually true. Galifianakisgate. The...

March 11, 2014

Guest post: ‘God is Done with You’: Pensacola Christian College and Sexual Violence

Samantha Field: The problem isn’t just that universities like Pensacola Christian College, Bob Jones University,...

March 05, 2014

Most evangelical college grads have a story like this one

Most evangelical college graduates have a story like the one Dudley tells. They can relate...

March 05, 2014

Bible secrets concealed: How lying is mandatory for white evangelical institutions (part 2)

Duplicity is built into the structure of evangelical institutions -- colleges, seminaries, publishing houses, magazines....

March 04, 2014

Misstatements of faith: How lying is mandatory for white evangelical institutions (part 1)

You can spend thousands of dollars to study biology or biblical studies at Bryan College....

March 04, 2014

There’s buzzing, there’s static, someone’s on the line

A good source for tracking events in Ukraine. Sousveillance and small-town Texas police. Michael Walzer...

March 03, 2014

Learn these 4 warning signs to avoid money-losing scams

"Four Texas lawmakers, including two now running for statewide office, bought into a fledgling technology...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars (2.26)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

February 26, 2014

The tribal trilateral: White, Protestant, anti-abortion.

That's what all those other tribal signifiers, past and present, tend to be -- short-hand...

February 20, 2014

Kansas Christianists seek monopoly on worldly honors and emoluments

This bill is the epitome of the recent effort to redefine "religious liberty" as a...

February 19, 2014

The 1847 letter that tells you everything you need to know about white evangelicals in 2014

"Card-playing and wine-drinking were the business at his parties, and he had more of such...

February 19, 2014

A wise guy in the sky invites you to his guilty party

The perpetual catechizing by tribal gatekeepers; 2014 Pat Robertson denounces evil, socialist 2008 Pat Robertson;...

February 18, 2014

No. The only people who call Patrick Henry College ‘God’s Harvard’ without irony are the PR people for Patrick Henry College

On the rare occasion that Patrick Henry College is known or referred to outside of...

February 13, 2014

Will this thing go to the moon?

Women bloggers starting to make the men a little nervous; Texas football reporter quotes Audre...

February 12, 2014

On my way to the promised land

Even by the loony, loopy standards of the anti-rock-preacher circuit, Sketch Erickson stood out. He...

February 10, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars (2.10)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

IHOP and the End of the World (part 2)

They can't get rid of the whole Great Tribulation battle against the Antichrist, because that...

January 28, 2014

IHOP and the End of the World (part 1)

The second confusing thing about these categories of pre- and post-millennialism has to do with...