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May 2016

May 06, 2016

Postcards from the culture wars (5.6)

"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Things I Have Learned Due to My Google News Alert for the Word ‘Satanic’

Several years ago I set up an RSS subscription for a Google News Alert for...

April 12, 2016

Postcards from the culture wars (4.12)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Donald Trump did not know the Standard Answer on criminalizing abortion

The Standard Answer is this: "Of course no one is talking about putting women in...

March 15, 2016

They have always been here. If you didn’t know that before, it’s because you couldn’t be trusted to know.

Rick Scarborough seems shocked that many white evangelical Christians have had abortions or know someone...

March 11, 2016

This is what abortion politics is for

Failing the clearest moral test of your time and culture is only a problem so...

March 08, 2016

Satanic baby-killers.

C.S. Lewis said that a determination to cling to the idea that our enemies are...

March 02, 2016

Does my sassiness upset you?

This is just all over the place. There's stuff in here about Donald Trump, the...

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 12, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (2.12)

Kali Holloway on "How Delusional Nostalgia Is Killing the White Working Class" (i.e., why Trump...

February 03, 2016

There were voices down the corridor

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

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Run, Franklin, run.

"In denouncing the Republican Party this week, Graham made a pitch for the prayer rallies...

December 10, 2015

‘If X is not wrong, then nothing is wrong’

Throughout all those years of refusing to admit that we had been wrong, and were...

December 02, 2015

LifeWay Research gets it backwards on abortion

"Women Distrust Church on Abortion" reads the headline from the Southern Baptist LifeWay Research, announcing...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

The awkward ritual of having to condemn violence by people who believe your own rhetoric about Satanic baby-killers

Every once in a while, some disturbed person absorbs the language and logic of white...

November 16, 2015

My sweet embraceable you

"As Blanche rattled off song titles, LaVey doodled away on two or three of his...

November 13, 2015

Just before it all blows to pieces

To tea-party Republicans in Maine, Episcopalians are dangerous "anti-Christian bigots." Plus: An inspiring conversion narrative...

November 12, 2015

Why conversionist stories promote dishonesty

It's more than just the temptation to give our stories, as Burke writes, "a little...

November 03, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (11.3)

Digby on David Barton's growing influence in the Republican Party. Rick Pearlstein and Brad DeLong...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Do surgeons wear latex gloves in Catholic hospitals?

I've heard and seen this claim endlessly repeated by apparently well-meaning white evangelicals for decades....

October 15, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (10.15)

Dahlia Lithwick on "Carly Fiorina's Big Lie." Therese Oneill looks at "the terrifying medical logic...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

The lazy imagination of the witch-hunter

If we can find someone worse to compare ourselves to, then we can feel better...

September 15, 2015

Bad faith in witch hunts and moral panics

"If something wasn't happening, why do so many intelligent, well-educated professionals believe it is?" Lanning...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (8.30)

Glenn Greenwald on "journalists" against journalism. Jeet Heer and Sarah Posner on Donald Trump. Eric...

August 27, 2015

The culture war has always been about race

Before the Reagan years, the culture wars were an anti-civil-rights struggle focused on race ("states'...

August 22, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (8.22)

From GeekAesthete, an analogy explaining why "All lives matter" is a dishonest response. Samantha Allen...

August 21, 2015

The Satan-selling con-men are boring. Their Satan-buying audience is fascinating.

I read Sarah Zagorski's article on Zachary King at LifeNew.com and I am, frankly, bored...

August 20, 2015

Back to the ’80s: ‘I Performed Satanic Rituals Inside Abortion Clinics’ says ‘former Satanist’ at LifeNews.com

Huge, if true: "Just after I turned 14, the coven members came to me and...

August 20, 2015

Would Mike Huckabee send the FBI to protect the personhood of this 40-year-old unborn twin?

I wouldn't guess that either Rubio or Huckabee -- or most of their fellow anti-abortion,...

August 13, 2015

Postcards from the culture wars (8.13)

"Those who say, 'I love God,' and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for...