JANUARY 7, 2021 BY BARRY DUKE MEET Leo Kelly, one of the first lunatics to storm the Capitol building after hearing Trump ranting outside the White House yesterday. And once inside, as…
OCTOBER 16, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN Not long ago, I found myself involved behind the scenes in a squabble between the chair of my department and another department colleague. Their disagreement was…
JULY 4, 2019 BY PK LANGLEY I Would Quit Again I’m not going to church anymore, I quit. God told me I don’t have to go and I listened. If you…
OCTOBER 1, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE A SONG intended to counter ‘dangerous humanism’ that fails to acknowledge innate human ‘sinfulness’ has resulted in the sacking of the singer, Jim Spiegel, above, from…
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 claim based on…
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 an…
AUGUST 28, 2019 BY STEPHANIE HERTZENBERG Christians have been reading and reciting the Bible for as long as it has existed. The teachings found within its pages form the bedrock of…
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 BY RICK SNEDEKER Christianity is often as much about supposed God-given male authority on earth as it is about belief in a cosmic God. And therein lies the rub. A…
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY RICK SNEDEKER While American public-school children are hunched over their devices attending online virtual classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, an evangelical Christian organization appears to be busy…
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 Last summer, a former employee of the Creation Museum, Ariella Duran, explained the “toxic culture” of that work environment in a lengthy Facebook post. She worked for…
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE This caught my eye, in an article announcing that Liberty University will be investigating Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure: In Monday’s statement announcing the investigation, Liberty’s board…
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY SHANE PHIPPS Trigger Warning: This article is not meant to be a condemnation of all who claim to be conservative Christians. It is simply an historic account…
AUGUST 31, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! As many people do now, I feel disquiet and dread when I check out what Christians are doing lately. And I’m…
AUGUST 26, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER Summary of reply: redefining “miracle” is not helpful, “consciousness” is no more miraculous than a thousand other abstract nouns, and David Hume’s recommendation for critiquing miracles…
AUGUST 19, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN This month marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. It started on WordPress as an outlet for short essays that I had been writing for a…
AUGUST 2, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Stupid For Jesus: In a new Facebook post leading evangelist Franklin Graham urges Christians in California to reject science, to reject any concern for public…
If Christianity (or Islam) were true, the religion should’ve appeared in other areas around the world in complete cultural isolation from biblical locales. Such evidence would point toward a universal…
JUNE 3, 2019 BY VANCEMORGAN At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if we are loved, the fragile hope for something better on the…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 28, 2020 The video below, from my YouTube channel (please subscribe!), discusses a question that we really shouldn’t have to ask: Was Jesus white? Somehow, this is a…
JULY 13, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Misogyny For Jesus: Conservative Christian activist Scott Lively claims a woman’s right to vote is a “product of the Soviet Bolshevik Revolution” and runs contrary…