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August 2015

August 12, 2015

The Scarlet Letter: The A-word doesn’t apply when the Right People choose it for the Right Reasons

For Scott Walker, et. al., the word "abortion" refers to evil baby-killing performed on behalf...

August 11, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (8.11)

Yolanda Pierce on the "cauldron of proslavery ideology" that shaped American theology. LBJ on the...

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...

August 05, 2015

Sunshine don’t hold up to dark

"After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count,...

August 03, 2015

It breaks my heart to hear you talkin’ this way

Why studying biology with the anti-science cynics of Wheaton College makes as much sense as...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Count your ribs and say your prayers and go to sleep

"35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That...

July 27, 2015

Flying blind and looking for any sign of light

No spoilers, you guys, because I've just started watching -- but is Christian Slater's character...

July 27, 2015

Rusty Houser hated women. He learned that at church.

I'm talking about the more fundamental teaching of John Russell Houser's Southern Baptist church --...

July 24, 2015

We dig our heels in and wonder who’s gonna win

"He was anti-abortion. ... Rusty had an issue with feminine rights. He was opposed to...

July 21, 2015

Organ and tissue donation saves lives

"The pathologist and the technologist have been known to clasp hands over the body, even...

July 20, 2015

I can chew like a cannibal, I can yell like a cat

I don't really know what a professional ethicist going into private practice would look like,...

July 18, 2015

Why I wrote the same thing I always do when the Liars for Jesus attacked Planned Parenthood yet again

Wherein I respond to the question of why I have been silent about Operation Rescue's...

July 15, 2015

Satanic baby-killers are putting dead babies in Pepsi!

You can learn a lot on the Internet. Today, for example, I learned that Pepsi...

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 19, 2015

15 Famous Celebs Who Have Committed Horrible Crimes!

A Southern Baptist leader comes out as Openly Baptist. Plus: Mr. Wednesday and Mr. Nancy...

June 09, 2015

Revisiting the immorality of the religious right’s ‘moral high ground’

The religious right's assertion that it represented the moral high ground was widely accepted for...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

The ‘CharlieCharlieChallenge’ doesn’t lead to demonic possession — but it can nurture credulity and willful ignorance, which is worse

The "CharlieCharlieChallenge," like Ouija boards, is pretty dumb. But neither of those is as bad...

May 28, 2015

Back to the ’80s, because we never left them (part 2)

Any skeptical questions about the reality of these alleged horrors was reinterpreted -- and fiercely...

May 28, 2015

Back to the ’80s, because we never left them

The D&D backlash of the 1980s wasn't sustainable because the unreality of the imagined threat...

May 15, 2015

‘We must be careful about what we pretend to be’: How tribal cheerleading creates new tribal dogma and changes the tribe to conform to it

Over time, these kinds of tribal-cheerleading responses to pollsters and other catechists eventually become required...

May 12, 2015

James Dobson cannot really believe what he says about legal abortion and the Holocaust

James Dobson isn't alone in making this claim. The legal-abortion-is-worse-than-the-Holocaust line is so frequently repeated...

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...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

How Bruce and Patti prove that Huckabee and Scalia are lying (and that they know full well they’re lying)

Antonin Scalia is also fully aware of the Roman Catholic Church's teaching and practice on...

April 15, 2015

Setting half the trends we know

When somebody claims to be just like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that's usually a big clue that...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Duck Dynasty’s loveless ethics and why reaver jokes aren’t funny

Phil Robertson isn't just saying that his atheist neighbors are all sub-human reavers, he's also...

March 26, 2015

Duck Dynasty’s loveless ethics and … the Aristocrats!

"Duck Dynasty" grandpappy Phil Robertson made an appalling confession, which he presented in the form...

March 23, 2015

The Satanic baby-killers of London

Here's how to do it. First, look at The Guardian's headline for the story above:...

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith (cont’d.)

Sustaining the kind of fantasy Linda Wall invites her readers to indulge in takes an...

March 02, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith

The culture warrior faith of the religious right is sometimes criticized for being overly negative....

February 2015

February 19, 2015

The devil has been in twice as many movies as Jesus (and how that has changed our theology)

Vincent Price is theologically significant. Price wore a devilish goatee that made him look like...