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January 2013

January 11, 2013

Love is not a victory march — unless you’re Marvin Olasky

Here is something that no one, anywhere, has ever said: "Hey, wouldn't it be great...

January 10, 2013

Here’s the tell: Hyde and Stupak

Hobby Lobby is not arguing that this supposedly onerous mandate should be illegal under the...

January 10, 2013

Memory vs. Hobby Lobby: Evangelicals and contraception and why Denny Burk is not a conservative

This is a radical act, the act of remembering when the powers that be are...

January 07, 2013

Come down off the cross, Her.meneutics, we could use the wood

To invoke Stephen in the defense of some alleged Christian "right" to deny workers the...

January 02, 2013

‘Mainstream’ evangelicals criticize critics of the religious right (part 3)

Dealing with church members perpetually enraged due to Fox Geezer Syndrome is a pastoral challenge....

January 02, 2013

‘Mainstream’ evangelicals criticize critics of the religious right (part 2)

"Pastor Provides Pastoral Care" is not news. Nor is "Shock-jock Says Something Shocking" newsworthy. But...

January 02, 2013

The push-back against the push-back begins: ‘Mainstream’ evangelicals criticize critics of the religious right

Mainstream evangelical leaders, magazines, bloggers and spokespeople were mostly reluctant to criticize the appalling post-Newtown...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Hobby Lobby takes human biology to court, loses

It doesn't matter if the evangelical gazillionaire owners of Hobby Lobby believe that emergency contraception...

December 24, 2012

Dobson, Huckabee get a bit of push-back from mainstream evangelicals

Following some particularly egregious comments on the Sandy Hook massacre by prominent religious-right evangelicals like...

December 20, 2012

Know your millennialisms (and how to avoid them)

Religion Dispatches is a reliable site for smart commentary, and Jay Michaelson seems like an...

December 18, 2012

Why James Dobson is unable to speak of the actual murder of actual children

The incoherence of James Dobson's statement comes from Dobson's undeniable recognition that the Newtown massacre...

December 17, 2012

The Sting: ‘Mainstream’ evangelicals and the religious right

Their theory, then, is that mainstream evangelicals can enlist the support of the religious right...

December 14, 2012

SSDD: If the evangelical mainstream wants me to view the religious right as marginal, then they should do more to marginalize the religious right

Mainstream evangelicals generally do not identify with the tone and emphasis of the religious right....

December 14, 2012

Climate change is both a hoax and a sign of the End Times

"Bible prophecy scholars" insist that the Rapture and the End of the World are prophesied...

December 12, 2012

Politics (and corporate foundations) makes strange bedfellows

This is the story of a miserable hack notorious for writing dishonest hatchet jobs about...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

White evangelicals and contraception: reversal and revision redux

Just five years ago it would have been unthinkable for American evangelicals to rally against...

November 28, 2012

More advice on Republican voter outreach

Following the re-election of President Barack Obama, there's no shortage of helpful advice for how...

November 26, 2012

American Horror Story: ‘Ex-gay’ evangelical formed murderous cult, police say

The headline in The Kansas City Star seems innocent: "Secrets of Tyler Deaton's prayer group...

November 26, 2012

‘Change is a mofo’: The GOP and white evangelicalism are in the same situation

The Republican Party and white evangelicalism face the same problems. Both have become dominated by...

November 20, 2012

‘Brother Al, you confuse evangelicalism with white, male America’

Miguel De La Torre: "Brother Al, you confuse evangelicalism with white, male America. Continuing to...

November 20, 2012

A happy story, a sad story, and a question about questions

Good news: Family Christian Stores, a subcultural retail giant, has bought itself back from its...

November 18, 2012

If we pretend that progressive evangelicals are not REALLY evangelical, then all evangelicals must be conservatives, and therefore progressive evangelicals cannot really be evangelicals

David French -- a proponent of the failing religious right agenda -- offers his own...

November 18, 2012

White evangelicals, Republicans and wanting to ‘take our country back’

White evangelicals are big fans of ethnic diversity -- just so long as those diverse...

November 15, 2012

White evangelicals: Three critiques and a clueless open letter

Chris Hayes says "the sense of persecution and siege that many white Christians feel down...

November 15, 2012

How evangelical tribal gatekeepers operate: ‘I want you to go after Campolo’

"I was given an assignment: write a booklet defending what we thought was the traditional...

November 14, 2012

Religious right splits: Hucksters say double down; true believers want to try something new

The hucksters of the religious right are urging their followers, supporters and partisan patrons to...

November 13, 2012

Evangelicals have a Bryan Fischer problem

Bryan Fischer manages to cling to semi-respectability as a representative of the religious right and...

November 13, 2012

Religious right still doesn’t know what ‘civil disobedience’ means

Civil disobedience can be a powerful tool of nonviolent change, but it is really only...

November 11, 2012

In which I mercilessly criticize Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer has some smart things to say about "making up your own set of...

November 08, 2012

Why the white evangelical religious right can no longer presume to claim moral superiority

The religious right lost the argument and the moral high ground because the other side...