How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we began our discussion about QAnon, that series of overwrought conspiracy theories that many evangelicals have embraced. After a…
Metaxas vs French: The Christian arguments for and against voting Trump
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY RUTH JACKSON With less than a week until the US election, Christian radio host and author Eric Metaxas and Christian commentator David French share their thoughts…
Exorcising the Ghosts of Jesus Past
OCTOBER 29, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living Stones” adult Christian education group after the morning service, I…
Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR by guest writer Andrew Reising Growing up, There was one issue that dominated politics in my house: abortion. Like in so many pro-life households,…
Evangelicalism Is Not Rounding the Corner
OCTOBER 29, 2020 BY KRISTIN DU MEZ We welcome Peter Choi back to the Anxious Bench today. Choi is Dean of Newbigin House, Associate Professor of American Christianity, and a…
Distilling the Chaos of 2020
OCTOBER 19, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE There is so much news right now and so much going on that it is sometimes hard to pick one single thing to write…
Pat Robertson: Trump Will Win, But Eventually an Asteroid Will Destroy the World
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 20, 2020 In news that will surprise absolutely nobody, televangelist Pat Robertson said on The 700 Club today that Donald Trump would definitely win the election……
Teacher Beheaded In France After Showing Political Cartoons Of Prophet Muhammad
OCTOBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Religion Poisons Everything: Samuel Paty, a middle school teacher in France, was beheaded by an Islamic extremist after showing his class political cartoons of…
Trump Tries To Mock Joe Biden Because Biden Will ‘Listen To Scientists’
OCTOBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Anti-Science President: Speaking at a campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday, President Trump warned supporters that if elected Joe Biden would “listen to…
GOP Senator James Lankford: God Wants Christian Men In Government
OCTOBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy Alert: Religious extremist and GOP Senator James Lankford argues God wants Christian men to serve in government. Lankford, speaking on a conservative Christian…
Where White Evangelicals REALLY Lost Their Way
OCTOBER 17, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! I just saw this essay on Baptist News and had a good chuckle over it. See, Richard T. Hughes thinks…
This Book Shows Every Word in the King James Bible, Arranged Alphabetically
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 17, 2020 Joseph Ernst and Jan van Bruggen, designers at Sideline Collective, just released a special edition of the Bible which takes every single word in…
Atheists Call for Removal of Jesus Painting from Shreveport (LA) Police Dept.
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 17, 2020 Why is this the painting the people at the Shreveport Police Department in Louisiana decided to hang up in the same hallway where members…
Trump and the Church’s Failing
OCTOBER 13, 2020 BY SUSAN WRIGHT I have sounded this alarm before, and it is time to sound it again: The American church is fast proving to be the lukewarm…
If You Can Pray
OCTOBER 16, 2020 BY ANNE KENNEDY It is Friday, and I was about to think my way through Quick Takes, but instead of that, for those of you who pray…
Don’t Read the Constitution like Literalists Read the Bible
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…
You Can’t Be a Christian and Support the Democratic Party
OCTOBER 16, 2020 BY GRAYSON GILBERT Party. I have no qualms expressing such. I find it hard to believe that professing Christians could even find this topic worthy of debate.…
Science vs. Christianity: When Worldviews Collide
OCTOBER 15, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER Alister McGrath, an Anglican priest and professor of theology at Oxford, contrasted atheism and Christianity in an interview on the conservative Christian site The…
Violent sexual abuse in the Vatican: two priests put on trial
OCTOBER 15, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE CATHOLIC priest Gabriele Martinelli, above, accused of repeatedly raping a pupil at a pre-seminary, as well as being violent and threatening blackmail, made his…
COVID Cases on the Rise at “Christian Hogwarts” School in Redding, CA
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 15, 2020 I posted earlier this month about how a COVID outbreak in Shasta County, California had been linked to Bethel Church, which is home to…