Televangelist Jim Bakker is Now Selling 115 Giant Buckets of Food for $10,000
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 What do you do if you’re televangelist Jim Bakker and your attempt to sell a (fake) all-purpose cure for COVID, SARS, HIV, and “all…
COVID-Denying Church Finally Goes Outside After County Issues $112,750 Penalty
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 For weeks now, North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California has been defying local COVID restrictions by holding massive indoor services that break…
Insane Anti-Mask Protester’s Defense: “Most Child Molesters Love ‘Em!”
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 A few weeks ago, in St. George, Utah, a group of selfish, ignorant people held a rally to denounce a local mask mandate. The…
Ohio Gov. Signs Bill Banning State Officials from Closing Churches in a Pandemic
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Ohio’s Gov. Mike DeWine has just signed into law House Bill 272, a bill that prohibits local government officials from shutting down places of…
Everything Wrong With Genesis 31 in the Bible
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 The video below, from my YouTube channel (please subscribe!), discusses all the problems with Genesis 31. There are gods everywhere. And one woman is…
COVID-Denying Pastor Hosts Mass Baptism for Nearly 1,000 Maskless People
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California argued back in May that two months of abiding by lockdown orders was enough…
After Rejecting Face Masks, Idaho Pastor, Wife, and Church Staff Contract COVID
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 A pastor who said face masks were useless against COVID and opened up his church to in-person worship services during which masks were optional……
The Christian Conspiracy: In Pursuit of Truth
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 BY PAUL LOUIS METZGER In “Conspiracy Theories: In Pursuit of Truth,” I claimed that New Testament Christianity may have been a conspiracy theory movement. I made that…
Sacred Dissent: The Legacy of RBG, and What Comes Next
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 BY ERIN WATHEN Dissent is the beginning of progress. Every time we push against something that is holding back the fullness of life for someone–whether an individual…
Pastor Rick Joyner: God Wants Christian Veterans to Lead “Good Militias”
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner, the head of MorningStar Ministries, appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show” Friday and claimed Christians ought to join local militias…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Could Mean the End of Church/State Separation
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 The loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg tonight is a stunning blow to progressives across the country and it throws yet another wrench into the…
What it Truly Means to be Free
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN Iris Murdoch is one of my favorite philosophers and novelists, but I seldom get to use her work in my teaching. Murdoch claimed to be…
Predestination & Prophecy: Not About the Future
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE. Biblical prophecy and predestination concern the forthcoming, not the far future like in popular American Christian imagination I love me some Stephen King…
Luther and Africa
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 BY GENE VEITH The Christian History site, sponsored by Christianity Today, has posted a fascinating article about the influence of Ethiopia on Luther and the Reformation. Wheaton…
Evangelicals Who Don’t Believe in Christ?
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 BY GENE VEITH A majority of Americans, 52%, agree with the statement, “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God.” That’s not surprising. But what…
How Good Was Jesus if He Didn’t Eliminate Slavery?
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER Tom Gilson is an apologist and editor with the conservative Christian website The Stream. Lately, he’s been flogging his new book, Too Good to…
Jesus Would Have Been the Worst Conservative Christian
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 BY SHERI FAYE ROSENDAHL For one, Jesus was never like, “Do you know where you are going when you die?” You know, the number one question of…
The Problem(s) with “Harmonial Religion”
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 BY FREDERICK SCHMIDT When you begin talking to people about their faith, if you are listening at all, you discover that almost all of us believe a…
From ‘Vision for Peace’ to ‘normalisation’ – 2020 has become the year of forgetting
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 BY ROBERT A. H. COHEN Memories are short these days. There used to be a something called the ‘Occupation’ which left nearly three million Palestinians disenfranchised and…