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September 2020

September 15, 2020

If the Q fits …

"Why are so many Christians falling for QAnon?" Relevant magazine asks -- meaning, really, why...

September 06, 2020

Most 21st-century white evangelicals oppose child-trafficking and rape. That’s new.

It is, unreservedly, a Good Thing that a religious tradition formed and shaped by its...

September 04, 2020

The Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition takes to the streets

What drives them -- the source of their passion, their purpose, and their identity --...

September 03, 2020

No one ‘really believes’ in QAnon

One third of Republicans told pollsters that they believed Satanic baby-killer nonsense was "mostly true."...

September 02, 2020

I am a Christian. Here is what I believe about abortion.

This post is not an exercise in persuasion or in condemnation. Nor does it involve...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

Who’s using who?

This is what happens when you choose to use a useful lie. The lie becomes...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

Anti-maskers and the resentment game

These people are not "crazy," or stupid, or ignorant, or misinformed. The deficiency is moral....

July 15, 2020

Look over your shoulder

When some people speak of "the '60s," they mostly mean the "sexual revolution." And what...

July 03, 2020

‘I hope that this is real’

You probably don't hope that millions of your neighbors are secretly cannibalistic pedophiles who worship...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

The Civil Rights Movement shattered white evangelical identity

White evangelicals were not unique in utterly failing the moral test of the Civil Rights...

May 26, 2020

This ain’t a ‘historical narrative,’ it’s living memory

If you want to understand how the religious right rose as a backlash reaction to...

May 06, 2020

Happy Birthday, Tricia

"I'm fighting for you, and a blue-eyed Jesus America first The rest get the pieces"

April 2020

April 01, 2020

Smart people saying smart things (4.1.20)

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

March 2020

March 19, 2020

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.19.20)

"Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the...

March 09, 2020

The silent anniversary that proves it’s all a lie

This lie shapes everything about our lives in America today. It defines the parameters and...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

BWAA

The reflexive deployment of "But What About Abortion" dismisses every potential concern as a "lesser"...

December 2019

December 23, 2019

The change we all lived through, but don’t all remember

White evangelicalism changed in the 1980s. If you don't remember this, you could look it...

December 15, 2019

That time a ‘pro-life’ terrorist bombed the Olympics

How I personally benefitted from the FBI's initially botched investigation of the terror attack at...

December 05, 2019

The folly of Trumpism

"They are under a spell, they are blinded, their very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus...

December 04, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (12.4.19)

"All this we affirm to be true of the popular church, and the popular worship...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

The switcheroo

The Big Box is having a really good sale on backyard grills. But this is...

November 11, 2019

Bartender says ‘Is this some kind of joke?’

Taking a clickbait Bible quiz to prove that you know more than "most Christians" is...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

White evangelicals love Kanye’s Carman album

Embracing white evangelical culture wars and white evangelical politics, Kanye West records ... well, basically...

October 10, 2019

I know I’m supposed to say ‘Jesus,’ but it sure sounds more like a squirrel to me

• When I was a kid back in the early 1970s, our small town's library...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.25.19)

"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the...

September 16, 2019

‘Just put it on my bill’

The sexual "purity culture" embraced by white evangelicals can't be separated from the sex-obsessed, all-American...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

White Jesus doesn’t care about anti-Semitic lies

Pastor Mark is basically Martin Niemoller circa 1924. He has no gospel, no Bible, no...

August 13, 2019

I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you

Robert Jeffress would really hate "The Hiding Place." Plus: Why breakfast at IHOP is better...

August 08, 2019

Members of the press, tell us what you see

If Donald Trump is not pursuing a white supremacist herrenvolk ethnostate, then he's pretending to...

August 07, 2019

Piece of string? I’m a frayed knot

• This is what we evangelical Christian types call a "personal testimony." And it's a...