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February 2015

February 18, 2015

What if it were all true?

Here's the premise for a TV show: It's all true. Everything Pat Robertson says is...

February 09, 2015

When fantasy role-playing replaces faith you still need a decent DM

Strachan's fawning flattery is directed at an audience of conservative white Christians who love to...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (1.28)

Panti Bliss on what it is that homophobes are afraid of. Rachel L. Martin on...

January 14, 2015

The Magic School Bus and the Satanic Panic that ate Christianity

The hallmark of white evangelical discipleship is feigned outrage. Evangelicalism in America takes its cue...

December 2014

December 21, 2014

The Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition (again)

Opposition to the burning of kittens is not what sets the members of the AKBC...

December 16, 2014

Torture poll demonstrates, quantifies depravity of ‘pro-life’ white evangelicalism

What is the one common trait uniting all of that 69 percent of white evangelicals...

December 13, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (12.13.14)

Randi Harper on online abuse; Chris Rock on the whiteness of Hollywood; Damaris Zehner on...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Felicia Day summarizes what I’m trying to say to right-wing white evangelicals

"I know it feels good to belong to a group, to feel righteous in belonging...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Thinking outside the Hitler-shaped box

Half a point to Robert Oscar Lopez for trying to inject a bit of variety...

September 23, 2014

Who do you say that I am?: Putting the ‘post-‘ in ‘post-evangelical’ (part 1)

American evangelicals changed the way they answer the question "Who do we say that we...

September 14, 2014

The Satanic Panic arose from abortion politics

Rather suddenly -- in about a decade -- white evangelical politics, identity, piety and dogma...

September 09, 2014

Charisma gives no apology, no explanation for its deleted pro-genocide article

Charisma has provided no comment, no explanation, no acknowledgement, and no apology. They have not...

September 08, 2014

So who is this Gary Cass guy?

Gary Cass is the pro-violence, pro-death guy who wants to kill a billion human beings....

September 07, 2014

Charisma is trying to get missionaries killed

Gary Cass is deliberately inciting violence against innocents -- Muslim children and families, Sikhs and...

September 07, 2014

Charismanews.com goes full-on Hutu radio

Cass and Charisma are not merely "Islamophobic" -- this is the language of genocide. This...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

‘They’re evil humans. They are butchering children for a living’

Janet Mefferd perfectly illustrates what C.S. Lewis described as "a determination to cling" to a...

August 18, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars (8.18)

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

August 06, 2014

‘Persecution’: Waiting for war or the end of the world

Alan Noble: "The problem is that for most of U.S. history, Christians haven’t been persecuted...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

‘I think religious preoccupation with abortion is largely about controlling the sexuality of women’

John H. Richardson's remarkable Esquire profile of Dr. Willie Parker is going to make a...

July 18, 2014

Learning to walk without gravity

Some late-Friday stuff, including: How "love for Israel" can be a kind of anti-Semitism; worshipping...

July 09, 2014

Javert Syndrome, Texas justice, and Satanic baby-killers

Once one's identity is invested in that comparison and contrast, one cannot bear to learn...

July 08, 2014

Seeking ‘religious liberty’ just like Elijah at Kishon

When you're trying to paint your political opponents as evil baby-killers, it doesn't work to...

July 04, 2014

Testifying to the truth: Real life vs. ‘pro-life’ lies

My plea to my fellow evangelical Christians is simple: Stop lying. Stop telling and spreading...

July 02, 2014

I guess it could have been a dream

Some late-night links (depending where you are), including: Gay weddings at the Creation Museum; latest...

July 01, 2014

John Courtney Murray is still dead

Blood transfusions, you see, are religiously forbidden for Jehovah's Witnesses. That is to say, in...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’

Joseph Laycock's description of "ostension" and the "corrupt play" dynamics that fueled the Slender Man...

June 03, 2014

The need to believe in something awful

Mike Warnke and Bob Larson are just con-artists who will say whatever they need to...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

You want much more than I’m giving

Superlatives are the worst. Mike Warnke is making a comeback. It's cruel to take teenagers...

May 10, 2014

I drive my car, it is a witness

Some weekend links: "And then the woman let out a cry. I cannot describe it."...

May 09, 2014

Tribal gatekeepers officially enshrine Phelpsian bigotry as ‘evangelical’ and ‘Too Christian’

Bryan Fischer is a member in good standing of the white evangelical tribe. The tribal...