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March 2016

March 17, 2016

The rise of Donald Trump may disprove the possibility of time travel

The surprising thing about the 2016 presidential campaign so far is the strange absence of...

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 10, 2016

That wasn’t a whistle (and everyone knows it wasn’t the dog)

That ploy never really fools anybody, but it provides a thin buffer of semi-plausible deniability....

March 09, 2016

I want to take a breath that’s true

The land beneath 69 manufactured homes in Santa Barbara is being sold to a developer...

March 06, 2016

The national ID card and the Mark of the Beast

For a big chunk of those voters, Orwell's language of "Big Brother" isn't the preferred...

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 29, 2016

Trump: 1980s punchline turned 21st-century demagogue

The Donald Trump who blustered his way into the spotlight back in the 1980s was...

February 28, 2016

Where did the word-of-the-moment come from? To the Bat Cave!

This is a word you're not supposed to say on live TV or in front...

February 26, 2016

The fruit salad of our lives

Trump gets two endorsements that won't help him and two opponents who won't hurt him....

February 24, 2016

Donald Trump as Cyrus the Great

White evangelicals are looking to Donald Trump as a kind of modern-day Cyrus the Great....

February 23, 2016

Driscoll and Trump: A tale of two bullies

What we're seeing here is a failure of, as Gushee says, "moral formation." When one...

February 17, 2016

I’m not that good at breathing in

Donald Trump said something that was actually true. Plus: The blessed freaks; the Curse of...

February 04, 2016

Marco Rubio and the Hebrew Congregation of Newport

To Sen. Marco Rubio, President Obama's visit yesterday to a Baltimore mosque was "divisive." Obama's...

February 03, 2016

When white supremacy is ‘conservative’ (and vice versa)

The problem, apparently, is that Russell Moore may be a staunch opponent of abortion and...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

White guys in charge frustrated by their inability to silence all women (Part MXVII)

There's a pattern here with angry authoritarian men like Falwell getting puffed up with indignation...

January 30, 2016

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

I'd advise Trump to stick to some nice, safe evangelical church this week -- somewhere...

January 28, 2016

It can happen here: Trumpism, Franklin Graham, and respectable white evangelicalism

The widespread popular support for Trump and Trumpism has been the subject of much consternation...

January 27, 2016

Let’s give top evangelical leaders fancy titles, robes and mitres

I'm starting to think that what white evangelicalism needs these days is more fancy titles,...

January 19, 2016

She’ll beat you if she’s a bull

Paid sick days keep us all a lot healthier, but many employees don't get sick...

January 19, 2016

Two Corinthians, one cup (Donald Trump at Liberty University)

Donald Trump's clumsy proof-texting based on a half-understood concordance search showed his audience at Liberty...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Breaking news: Wheaton College suspends King Christian X of Denmark for suggesting Christians and Jews worship the same God

How should Christian leaders respond to escalating violence and bigotry toward Muslims? The leaders of...

December 14, 2015

We just wanna be heard

Why use a "Why ..." headline for an article that doesn't say why? Plus: Biblical...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Say goodbye to the old street

Monday miscellany, including: revisiting the Problem of Susan; Donald Trump's racist lying tweet; looking forward...

November 20, 2015

Please don’t suddenly pretend you care about homeless veterans for just as long as it allows you to oppose helping refugees, because that’s hurting both veterans and refugees and it’s making you miserable

Don't lie to me and pretend you're suddenly concerned about the common good right here...

November 19, 2015

Cursed be anyone who deprives the refugee of justice

This is not history. This is today. It's right now. And all the horrified students...

November 09, 2015

Crackpots and candidates: How to lead in the GOP polls

Here again are Maggie Koerth-Baker's five rules for discerning the difference between a genius and...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

Donald Trump, ‘Playboy,’ and when bigots were kids

The world is supposed to be just like it was before -- back when we...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

How to Lose Friends and Influence People

There's a bit of folk-wisdom that says you should never lend money to a friend...

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 25, 2015

White evangelical voters, Donald Trump, and the evolution of the religious right

This isn't really about Donald Trump. It's about white evangelical voters and their support (later...