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February 2021

February 11, 2021

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland

Jesus was not a Jeep commercial. Plus: A strange guest star, a strange arrest, and...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

‘Hear him howling around your kitchen door’

"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Defensive pretend patriotism is bad for sports and bad for veterans

Deliberately blurring the lines between pro-military and pro-country is straight-up banana republic dictator nonsense. That's...

January 2018

January 02, 2018

White Evangelical Hostility to Science is Still a Thing

Surveys and interviews provide information about how people perceive themselves and about how they wish...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Postcards from the class and culture wars (10.4.17)

"But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you?...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Postcards from the class & culture wars (3.2.17)

"Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another...

March 29, 2016

Educated men who are almost as ignorant about insurance as they are about human reproduction

Men who don't understand how sex works or what contraception does are now suing the...

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....

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (9.14)

Duncan Black and Juan Cole on humanitarian bombs and the refugees they create. Shaun King...

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 13, 2015

Postcards from the culture wars (8.13)

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

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...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

‘Weaponized’ religious exemptions, in turn, weaponize religion (part 1)

This weaponized use of religious exemptions has changed the context of the entire conversation that...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Something like love should hold me up high

I don't recall reading any interviews with Jon Stott about his leaving evangelicalism for the...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

She’s working double shifts to keep us fed

Vatican Guy No. 1: "How should we advertise our all-male conference on women?" Vatican Guy...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

The Bible used to get a lot of things wrong

If those early Southern Baptists were wrong about slavery, then they were wrong about the...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (7.12)

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings on the Christians who would have turned Jesus and Mary...

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 01, 2014

John Courtney Murray is still dead

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

July 01, 2014

Pope Bobby I of the Church of a Beer and a Bump

The courts do not want to get entangled in questions of religious sincerity. That is...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby reaction round-up

Here's what I've been reading today about the Hobby Lobby ruling by the Supreme Court,...

June 10, 2014

The Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Read

Some are born ignorant, some achieve ignorance, and some have ignorance thrust upon them. If...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

‘Granting an exemption … operates to impose the employer’s religious faith on the employees’

Reading this older Ian Millhiser column at ThinkProgress, I'm struck by how pertinent the 1982...

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 01, 2014

You think I built this for me?

A few things: Flooding and train derailments are not acts of divine intervention sent to...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

Smart people saying smart things

Brittney Cooper is not pleased with the call for her to simmer down and keep...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

White evangelicals getting ready to rewrite the Bible. Again.

It has happened before and, as Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux shows, it is happening again. History will,...

March 12, 2014

We won’t come back from Dead Man’s Curve

Imagine a world in which the stuff Pat Robertson says was actually true. Galifianakisgate. The...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

7 @ 9: Florence and the machine

Blasphemy laws are being used for extortion because that's what blasphemy laws are for. The...

February 2012

February 19, 2012

The Münchhausen martyrdom of Rick Warren, Chuck Colson and Fr. Jonathan Morris

These folks aren't driven by religion. They're not really even driven by politics. It's just...