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October 13, 2026

The Cat Is Alive. Please Stop Asking Questions.

Seal a cat in a box with a mechanism that may or may not kill...

October 06, 2026

Were the Biblical Prophets Antisemitic?

Apparently I’m antisemitic. I discovered this after making what I thought was a fairly pedestrian...

September 2026

September 29, 2026

Solomon’s Paradox: Everyone’s Deceived but Us

King Solomon had a reputation for wisdom. People came to him with disputes, impossible questions,...

September 22, 2026

Silicon Valley Stole Our Apocalypse

American Christianity got into the End Times business early enough that we should retain the...

September 15, 2026

Dave Ramsey Needs Your Pastor

For several years, when I worked for an evangelistic organization on missionary support, I attended...

September 08, 2026

Noah Was Never About the Animals

Every generation of religious fear merchants eventually climbs into the ark. “The world mocked Noah...

September 01, 2026

Why Faith Never Closes the Loop

Ever leave a show halfway through a season and feel like it’s still watching you?...

August 2026

August 25, 2026

When Certainty Needs Fear

Benjamin Franklin once invented a musical instrument so strange and beautiful that people decided it...

August 18, 2026

In the Beginning, Incest Was the Best

There are certain questions biblical literalism would probably prefer you stop asking somewhere around third...

August 11, 2026

The First Proof-Texter in the Bible Was Satan

Nugget Theology There's a particular kind of Christian comment that's instantly recognizable. You make a...

August 04, 2026

The Marquee of America’s Biggest Churches

Last time, I ran the numbers on the Bible and found that love came in...

July 2026

July 28, 2026

Love Ranks 13th in the Bible. I Counted.

Ask a room full of Christians what the Bible is about and you'll get the...

July 21, 2026

VBS Is Grooming

For the past few years, a certain slice of American Christianity has had one move....

July 15, 2026

The Church Keeps You in the Helicopter

Holding Water Everything goes wrong at the moment we name it. The chaos is real....

July 07, 2026

Miracle Mike and the Headless Church

In 1945, a farmer in Colorado tried to butcher a chicken named Mike. He cut...

June 2026

June 30, 2026

Every Restoration Is a Retcon

Every nationalist movement claims it's bringing something back. None of them are. You cannot restore...

June 23, 2026

The Father’s Day Shirt That Explains Every Denomination

Father's Day at my house has a subgenre. My two daughters are locked in a...

June 16, 2026

Dead Bibles Don’t Echo

In 1991, U2 released "Love Is Blindness" as the closing track on Achtung Baby, a...

June 09, 2026

White Grievance Month: Your Official June Observance Guide

"By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I declare June to be...

June 02, 2026

How Evangelicalism Trains People to Fear Reality

There's a strange moment that happens to a lot of people leaving Evangelicalism. You expect...

May 2026

May 26, 2026

The Bootstrap Paradox of Faith

There is a moment in Interstellar that has tied people into knots for years. Cooper...

May 19, 2026

The Cloning Problem in Christianity

Scientists recently discovered that repeatedly cloned mice eventually started falling apart. At first, the clones...

May 12, 2026

Why Humans Need Stories That Don’t Pretend to Be God

Christians love mocking mythology. Zeus throwing lightning bolts. Thor with a hammer. Athena popping out...

May 05, 2026

When a Pastor Falls — and Why the Ending Never Changes

You know this story. You've known it long enough that the details have stopped surprising...

April 2026

April 28, 2026

Tom Bombadil and the God Who Won’t Manage Your Life

Years ago I read The Fellowship of the Ring to my kids before bed. Hobbits...

April 21, 2026

Please Remain Seated

Life, as Arthur Schopenhauer once suggested, is a bus ride—not a scenic tour or a...

April 14, 2026

Religion, Politics, and Hustle Culture Run the Same Con

The Four Lies We Keep Buying Human history is basically one long con, and we've...

April 07, 2026

What the Hell, Rob Bell

This isn’t a theory. It’s a timeline. Rob Bell built a career passing off borrowed...

April 02, 2026

Jesus Loves You, Now Shut Up

How Christianity Perfected the Thought-Terminating Cliché Every culture has its slogans. Politicians toss them around...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

The End of Suspension of Disbelief

Somewhere in the last stretch of months, my suspension of disbelief quietly died. No shattering...