A Threat to Religious Liberty? Hardly.
In reality, though, religious conservatives do not have much to fear from the Roberts Court
Category: Religion
Integralists: America’s Would-be Theocrats
If Integralism sounds like fascism, well, that’s because it sounds like fascism. Integralists should be treated as such, as well as its advocates
Howard County Maryland and the Devil in the Religious Service Details
As local municipalities work towards implementing their respective governor’s re-opening guidelines, Howard County, Maryland, raised some eyebrows with theirs
Apologia of Human Nature: Charlatans, Saints, Hoffer, and Burt Likko’s Query
Human nature is human nature, regardless of divine ambitions.
Ravi Zacharias: The Uncomplicated Facts
The death of Ravi Zacharias yesterday has generated a broad array of conflicting responses. Happily, despite the acrimony, the key facts are undisputed.
The Seder in Quarantine
When the world’s Jews gather to celebrate Passover this Wednesday night, our seder tables will be uncannily private, small gatherings reduced from the scale of family to that of individual households
Wednesday Writs: SCOTUS and Almighty God Edition
L1: A Pennsylvania law passed in December 1959 required, at the outset of a school day, the recitation of ten verses from the Holy Bible, to be read over the school intercom or in...
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Martyrs, Saints, and Grifters Upon the Waves Edition
The missing blue wave, impeachment martyrdom, the Fal-ings of self-awareness, and some places we got it right/wrong in Harsh Your Mellow Monday
Celebrating Life with a Pocket Full of Death
I’m not a fan of social functions. I make it a habit to avoid them. I’ve been to a whole mess of funerals. Those are less avoidable.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Bolton, Bernie, Paula White, and Mike Pompeo
Harsh Your Mellow on John Bolton, Resistance Unicorn Turned Book Salesman, The Bernfire of Vanities, Paula White Puts the “What the Heck” in Heretic, and Mike Pompeo’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad NPR Interview (slight return).
Not So United Methodists Heading for Divorce
Schism is apparently nigh for the second-largest Protestant denomination in America, and it is over LGBT issues such as same-sex marriage and clergy that are openly gay.
A Panel Discussion Worth Discussing
Over on CNN, Jake Tapper had on Bari Wiess and Jane Coaston to discuss anti-Semitism and the reaction to the latest attacks on Jews. What say you?
Starcraft’s American Frontier in the Cosmos
A popular computer game asks a troubling question: Is space our salvation – or a cruel mirage?
Have Yourself a Merry Little Syphilis
What is the true meaning of Christmas anyway? I’m going to set that question aside for a little bit to talk about syphilis.
Too Much Faith Following the Wrong Leader
Walk softly and carry a big spiritual stick, but the stick is called discernment and is used just as much to ward off people who claim to be of faith as those who are openly against faith.
Yom Kippur: The Cycle Starts Up Again
People look at you strangely when you say that Yom Kippur is your favorite holiday of the year.
Pizza In The Sticks
Symposium: Friday nights meant getting some pizza at the plaza and going home and eating it in front of the television instead of eating it at the table.
Sunday Morning! “Silent Light”
On Carlos Reygadas’s strangely sincere, beautiful, and deeply spiritual movie about infidelity among the Mennonites.
Thoughts from a Cemetery
There’s a haunting beauty in these old cemeteries. It’s the new ones that creep me out.
