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June 2013

June 04, 2013

White evangelicals and immigration

Molly Worthen's New York Times article on white evangelical support for immigration -- "Love Thy...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

‘Pro-life’ groups still not speaking up for pregnant workers

If you claim to be "pro-life" and yet you don't support the Pregnant Workers Fairness...

May 08, 2013

Smart people saying smart things

Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is not accused or even suspected of any crime, but...

May 02, 2013

Trinity Broadcasting celebrates 3,249 years of evangelistic success

The population of the United States is around 313 million, but if you tally up...

May 01, 2013

Pat Buchanan joins Manhattan Declarers in ‘civil disobedience’ fappery

Pat Buchanan takes a break from race-baiting to pledge his support for "civil disobedience" against...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars

Dispatches from war correspondents on the battlefield, including: "Love the bigot, hate the bigotry;" James...

April 25, 2013

Liberty Counsel redefining ‘Christian’ just as Falwell did

The beginning of that court battle back in 1976 was the spark that set the...

April 17, 2013

‘Be ye not afraid’: Kiwi MP’s terrific speech on marriage equality

"The sun will still rise tomorrow. ... Your mortgage will not grow. You will not...

April 15, 2013

Postcards from the culture war

"A Scout is kind" and other, less-heartening, scenes from our ongoing moral panic, including: Bible-thumping;...

April 13, 2013

The entrepreneurial activism of Tim LaHaye’s theologized politics

Throughout his decades-long career, Tim LaHaye has always been three things: an entrepreneur, an evangelist,...

April 04, 2013

North Carolina Republicans introduce bill to outlaw Baptist churches and establish N.C. Staatskirche

"A resolution filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion,...

April 03, 2013

Manhattan Declaration Direct-Mail Fundraising Inc.

The half-a-million signatories of the Manhattan Declaration provide quite a mailing list. More importantly, it's...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Well you’re high on top of your mountain of woe

The one thing white evangelicals had been sure of was that they were morally superior....

March 22, 2013

‘Scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible’

"Beware of these scamsters," says Pat Robertson. "Especially scamsters in religious garb, quoting the Bible....

March 20, 2013

A delusional fantasy … on fire!

I've sometimes characterized much of the "Teavangelical" right-wing of America as people caught up in...

March 19, 2013

Culture-war diaries

Rob Bell and Hillary Clinton take sides; reinventing Promise Keepers; biblical special effects; a new...

March 13, 2013

‘Stop it, punish it, corral people, shame people’

That does seem like a rather harsh accusation. But in my defense, there's one good...

March 05, 2013

Notes from the culture war

"Call me a bigot," says bigot; "Why not let God teach our children about sex?"...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

DJesus Uncrossed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Bernard Bailyn's insight into the "savagery" of early Puritan colonists relates closely to our discussion...

February 21, 2013

To truly be ‘pro-family,’ you have to be pro-worker

We have surrendered the necessary task of advocating on behalf of families to "pro-family" clerics...

February 20, 2013

Notes from the culture wars

Bible-quoting teddy bears; the disastrous blessings of "prophecy;" eHarmony gets eDeathThreats from eChristians; the old...

February 19, 2013

Biblical Lysenkoism: Has Al Mohler ever read all four Gospels?

We tell those kids to read the Bible and a few of them actually do....

February 05, 2013

How are these two news stories related?

The obvious connection between these two stories is that they're both about Arkansas state Sen....

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Do white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex? Barna says yes, and provides quantifiable proof

A great many white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex. That delusion is an expression...

January 24, 2013

The conflicting agendas of hucksters and true believers

I've written before about a distinction between the true believers of the religious right and...

January 24, 2013

Outsourcing theocracy to Uganda: This is what bad fruit looks like

Uganda is 85-percent Christian. The U.S. is 70-percent Christian. This is not about missions or...

January 23, 2013

Roe v. Wade backlash myth clouds real history of state’s rights and segregated schools

White evangelicals in the 1970s were upset with the U.S. Supreme Court, but that anger...

January 22, 2013

Evangelical men need to stop lying about women’s health

This is a deliberate lie. This is a deliberate lie that white evangelicals are eager...

January 16, 2013

Sex, economy, freedom and community in the country of marriage

Watching the professional defenders of "traditional marriage" lecture Wendell Berry on that subject is like...

January 14, 2013

How President Obama reminds me of Ron Sider (and why that’s both good and bad)

Ron Sider's response to personal attacks was to reach out, to invite his critics to...