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February 2017

February 27, 2017
Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Plus: Lawless, clueless cops invite a lawsuit from...
February 27, 2017
The Pearly Gates of Heaven are a cliché image in popular culture. Every time a...
February 25, 2017
Here's Tracy Chapman with your Saturday protest anthem and open thread.  
February 24, 2017
Originally posted August 3, 2007. Read this entire series, for free, via the convenient Left Behind...
February 23, 2017
American society is marked by the baffling phenomenon of the haves resenting the have-nots. This...
February 22, 2017
Donald Trump is the end-product (so far) of the white evangelical narrative of decline --...
February 21, 2017
"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies....
February 20, 2017
Many of the songs and choruses that make up our "worship music" claim to be...
February 19, 2017
"Almighty, give attention to us who are suffering grievously from an impious and profane man,...
February 17, 2017
Left Behind is a fictional world, and as such its creators are free to invent...
February 16, 2017
President Donald Trump held a press conference today. It was bonkers. Plus: Elizabeth Drew provides...
February 15, 2017
"It is a moral rather than an intellectual defect. ... Folly can be overcome, not...
February 14, 2017
It's never a bad time to re-read George Washington's letter to the Hebrew congregation at...
February 13, 2017
The defining distinctive for Baptists isn't about how we baptize, but about why and when....
February 12, 2017
"Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that...
February 10, 2017
Some Friday-night gleanings from the week's news, including: The 'queen hunter' chasing down terrorists; Alabama...
February 10, 2017
Faced with such astounding duplicity and hypocrisy, with Buck's fervent condemnation of the very thing...
February 09, 2017
When we first learn about the hanging of witches in Salem or wherever else, we...
February 08, 2017
The most important (and interesting) thing about outrageous fake news and ridiculous lies from politicians...
February 08, 2017
Coretta Scott King on why Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has proved himself an enemy of voting...
February 07, 2017
Wherein I amend my earlier discussion of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the timid poetry editor who...
February 06, 2017
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is...
February 06, 2017
I recently realized that one popular theory holds that the book of Malachi may have...
February 03, 2017
L&J's placement of the two witnesses here, in the earliest days of the Tribulation, is...
February 02, 2017
David Brooks' column, like Eliot Cohen's before it, produced a hearty round of somber head-nodding...
February 01, 2017
Douglass’ words can be applied to more than one law, policy and initiative of our...
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