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January 2019

January 31, 2019
The gospel itself, Jubilee, is a kind of holy prank. "Discipleship" means, among other things,...
January 30, 2019
Just because the big key change in a song is cheesy, predictable, and nakedly manipulative...
January 29, 2019
You know who's smart? Janelle Wong, Terese Marie Mailhot, William Barber, Lili Loofbourow, and Simran...
January 29, 2019
Sometimes I have to tease out the pattern, to search the subtext and read between...
January 28, 2019
Some good news about the Ebola vaccine, some nice news about churches helping people in...
January 25, 2019
The strange, pointless fatalism of Tim LaHaye's eschatology is simply a reflection of a similar...
January 24, 2019
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require...
January 23, 2019
Falsifiable prophets, shameless grifters, Very Silly Men, and assorted other fatbergs of the religious right.
January 22, 2019
Ben Okri, Susan Shaw, Katherine Stewart, Talia Levin, and Yochai Benkler have some smart things...
January 19, 2019
Between Liberty University's CIO and Harvest Bible Church, this week would seem like a busy...
January 18, 2019
The telephone thing is too big to ignore, but too strange to make sense of....
January 17, 2019
Today's weirdest story involves Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, sock-puppets, a...
January 16, 2019
The American Family Association offers a 12-DVD box set that features lots of Top Gun-style...
January 15, 2019
The devil got tricked into helping to build a magnificent cathedral in Germany and a...
January 15, 2019
"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the...
January 14, 2019
Trump-loving, Holocaust-denying Christian nationalist grifter Kimberly Daniels is up to her eyeballs in ethics charges...
January 14, 2019
"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white...
January 11, 2019
Paul's gospel of reconciliation is irreconcilable with the death-dealing, Robo-Jesus who will arrive later in...
January 10, 2019
Two recent stories from the evangelical world might seem like positive, hopeful first steps. But...
January 07, 2019
It's weird that no one is even bothering to attempt to say that Oklahoma isn't...
January 06, 2019
Some Christians balk at this notion of God learning. An almighty and omniscient being, they say,...
January 04, 2019
Originally posted August 14, 2009. You can read this entire series, for free, via the...
January 04, 2019
In lieu of one of those New Year's "Top 10 Posts of Last Year" posts*...
January 03, 2019
It's still Christmas season, liturgically if not commercially, so let me recommend a nice little...
January 02, 2019
Twice a week, every week, anyone who needs a meal can sit down and eat,...
January 02, 2019
"Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers....
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