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2026-08-20T13:18:21-04:00

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The First Proof-Texter in the Bible Was Satan

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:18 pm By Stuart Delony

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Nugget Theology There’s a particular kind of Christian comment that’s instantly recognizable. You make a point. Maybe you mention history. Maybe context. Maybe you ask a question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Then someone appears with a case of Christian Tourette’s. “But the Bible says…” Followed by a verse. No explanation. No argument. No context. Just chapter and verse — the digital equivalent of slamming an Uno Reverse card onto the table and waiting for everyone to applaud. The... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:19:07-04:00

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The Marquee of America’s Biggest Churches

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:19 pm By Stuart Delony

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Last time, I ran the numbers on the Bible and found that love came in thirteenth. I said I’d run the same test on the churches. Here it is. I pulled every sermon title I could find from the hundred largest churches in America, their published feeds, two years deep, a little over six thousand titles. Seventy of the hundred had feeds open enough to read. Then I ran those titles through the same test I ran on the Bible:... Read more

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2026-08-21T15:10:34-04:00

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Love Ranks 13th in the Bible. I Counted.

Last updated on: August 21, 2026 at 3:10 pm By Stuart Delony

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Ask a room full of Christians what the Bible is about and you’ll get the same answer almost every time. Love. God is love. The whole thing runs on it. Run the numbers. Love comes in thirteenth. Out of sixteen major themes, love ranks below fear, below money, below judgment, below law. The word king and its relatives outrun love by six to one. Across the Old Testament alone the gap stretches to twelve to one. Love is in there.... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:20:55-04:00

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VBS Is Grooming

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:20 pm By Stuart Delony

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For the past few years, a certain slice of American Christianity has had one move. Drag queen reading a picture book to toddlers? Groomer. Teacher with a “safe space” sticker? Groomer. Librarian who shelved a story about two male penguins? Groomer. JD Vance went on Fox News and told the country that anyone wishing to avoid the label should simply decline to “sexualize 6-, 7-year-old children.” Matt Walsh built a brand around the accusation. Laura Ingraham called public schools “grooming... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:21:36-04:00

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The Church Keeps You in the Helicopter

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:21 pm By Stuart Delony

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Holding Water Everything goes wrong at the moment we name it. The chaos is real. The void, the unknown, the wild undifferentiated mess of a universe that owes you no explanation. That’s all actually there. The trouble starts in the split-second act of labeling it, because the label performs a sleight of hand so fast most people never catch it. It converts raw unknowing into false knowing. You were standing at the edge of something genuinely incomprehensible, and then you... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:22:16-04:00

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Miracle Mike and the Headless Church

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:22 pm By Stuart Delony

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In 1945, a farmer in Colorado tried to butcher a chicken named Mike. He cut off the bird’s head. Mike did not die. Enough of his brain stem remained for him to keep moving, balancing, walking, and existing in the most technical sense possible. His owner kept him alive with an eyedropper full of water and food shoved down what was left of his neck. Mike survived for another year and a half, toured the country, appeared in magazines, and... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:22:58-04:00

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Every Restoration Is a Retcon

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:22 pm By Stuart Delony

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Every nationalist movement claims it’s bringing something back. None of them are. You cannot restore a past you’re actively setting on fire, and the people promising to return America to its glory days have a curious habit of editing what those days actually contained. They’re not historians. They’re editing the past and calling it a rescue, and they learned the trick from a guy in the Bronze Age. There’s a word for this, and it comes from comic books: retcon,... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:23:33-04:00

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The Father’s Day Shirt That Explains Every Denomination

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:23 pm By Stuart Delony

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Father’s Day at my house has a subgenre. My two daughters are locked in a quiet, ongoing campaign to be named the favorite child, and the gift table is where the campaigning happens. This year I unwrapped a shirt that read “Awesome Like My Youngest Daughter.” I own variants. There’s a modest collection of them in a drawer, each one a salvo in a war I am not, technically, fighting. My two sons, for the record, were never in the... Read more

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2026-08-20T13:24:37-04:00

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Dead Bibles Don’t Echo

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:24 pm By Stuart Delony

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In 1991, U2 released “Love Is Blindness” as the closing track on Achtung Baby, a song so raw it sounds like Bono found something he wasn’t supposed to say out loud and said it anyway. It’s a breakup song that’s also a eulogy that’s also a prayer. It doesn’t resolve cleanly. Then Jack White covered it for The Great Gatsby soundtrack in 2013. Same song. Different creature. Where U2 built the track out of restraint and distance, White attacked it... Read more

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White Grievance Month: Your Official June Observance Guide

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 1:25 pm By Stuart Delony

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“By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I declare June to be Fidelity Month.” — Dr. Robert George, Princeton University, a man who did that It’s the most wonderful time of the year. White Grievance Month has officially begun. You’ll know it has begun because someone you went to high school with has posted that they “miss when June meant Father’s Day,” and you’ll know it’s at full liturgical strength when that same person spends Father’s... Read more

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