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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 BY M. L. CLARK Let’s begin with a story. Recently, I’ve been struggling to articulate some of the problems with left-leaning North American rhetoric — a side…
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER What does it mean that Jesus had the chance to end slavery (or at least make clear that it was wrong) but said nothing…
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 BY J. H. MCKENNA, PH.D. Fifty years ago Becky pondered a preacher’s boasts about the ‘mercy’ of God. The following week Becky sat under a gnarled and…
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 Christian-turned-atheist Patheos blogger Libby Anne wrote an eye-opening blog post this week on why evangelicals don’t do opposite-sex friendships. The inspiration came from the…
BY VAL WILDE SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 An advertisement encouraging children to attend Sunday school classes hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland has stirred up controversy following its social…
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 BY OPHELIA BENSON TRUMP chose to nominate a fanatical Catholic – Amy Coney Barrett, above – to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court. Of…
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 BY BEN WITHERINGTON Good things sometimes do come in small packages, and this book is one of them. I may only be 128 pages long, but it…
MARCH 9, 2020 BY JOSH DAFFERN Recently I delivered a funeral message for a dear brother that unexpectedly passed away. He was a firm believer in Jesus Christ, and his…
OCTOBER 28, 2019 BY JAMES A. HAUGHT By James A. Haught The supernatural spectrum is immense: Gods, goddesses, devils, demons, angels, heavens, hells, purgatories, limbos, miracles, prophecies, visions, auras, saviors,…
OCTOBER 14, 2019 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Unhealthy Christology!—Our imagined Jesus and Mary are a far cry from the historical truth of starving Galilean peasants. Is your imagined Jesus unhealthy?…
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE American Taliban: Fox News contributor Pastor Robert Jeffress uses the Bible to justify the claim that police “are ministers of God sent to punish…
OCTOBER 22, 2019 BY PHILIP JENKINS The Pew Foundation has just released a significant report concerning the state of American religion. As with anything done by Pew, both the research…
OCTOBER 14, 2019 BY JENNIFER FITZ As I write, the usual suspects are circulating conjecture about a newly-canonized saint: Maybe this person was gay! Well, maybe so, maybe not —…
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Attorney General William Barr spoke at the (virtual) National Catholic Prayer Breakfast yesterday and was awarded the “Christifideles Laici Award” for — and I’m…
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we talked about authoritarian Christians in terms of roleplaying games. And now, I want to show you where the…
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Christian preacher Andrew Wommack has said repeatedly in the past that anyone with faith can raise people from the dead. It even happened to…
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 BY SCOTT R. STAHLECKER Here’s a phrase you never want to see on the news ticker: “TRUMP WON’T COMMIT TO PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER: GET RID OF…
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 On Saturday, in North Carolina, preacher Jesse Hursey spoke (in his personal capacity) during an Alamance County Trump rally. Speaking like any politician would,…
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 BY GENE VEITH Book burning is the iconic manifestation of totalitarianism, thought control, and the suppression of freedom. And now cancel culture has come to point of…