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MARCH 17, 2021 BY ADAM LEE We got very lucky in our quest for a coronavirus vaccine. The mRNA approach, untried in humans until now, worked spectacularly well. It yielded two vaccines with 95% efficacy on the first try – like hitting a home run in your first at-bat. Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines were soon joined by a […]
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 BY ADAM LEE I have to admit, it’s satisfying to see titans of the religious right exposed as corrupt frauds and hypocrites. In the past, I’ve taken particular pleasure at the downfall of Jerry Falwell Jr. and Roy Moore, to name two. But the latest clay-footed preacher may even top these. Way back in 2008, I […]
JUNE 26, 2019 BY ANDREA L. TURPIN I love to study people who don’t fit in boxes. These people explode our assumptions about which ideas or which actions go together. They help us think outside our own boxes in productive ways, whether we totally agree with them or not. To a certain extent, everyone I study […]
MAY 14, 2019 BY D. G. HART Jemar Tisby has a new book out contending that the history of the church’s complicity in racism means evangelicals can no longer act as if they do not know about the problem. At the beginning he says his book is “about revealing racism.” “It pulls back the curtain on the ways […]
By Paul A. Djupe and Ryan P. Burge Last fall, we wrote about the extent to which white Protestants believed Donald Trump was anointed by God to be president of the United States. Just 21% believed this, but evangelicals were more likely to believe it (29%), and pentecostals were the most likely (53%). This belief didn’t come […]
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying daughter medical attention because of “religious reasons” now face 25 years to life in prison. The Cedars Spring Post reports: Seth Michael Welch, 28, was found guilty of felony murder and first-degree child abuse for the death […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Evangelists were elites representing two percent of the total population who could read and write—because their context was far removed from the Galilee, sometimes they are at a loss to understand the sayings and stories of Jesus. Evangelists, pray for us! Being a disciple of Jesus has never been easy. […]
FEBRUARY 9, 2020 BY JONATHAN AIGNER I think it’s a legitimate question. I should probably included a disclaimer here. If you’re not already concerned with bad worship in the church, or if you’re blissfully unaware that such a thing exists, you may not like this post. You should read it anyway, because you need to know. […]
FEBRUARY 3, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE Could Noah’s Ark Have Been Made of Wood? reads an Answers in Genesis headline. What interested me more was the summary on my feed reader. Say what now? There’s a sort of flippancy to their statement. It sounds like something a flippant atheist would say to summarize Answers in Genesis’ position. […]