Roy Moore: The Ultimate Test For Evangelicals
It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in our country during the Trump Era. So many secret sexual sins are being publicly exposed. It’s like God is testing...
View ArticleTop 10 Posts From 2017
Well it’s time again to share the top blog posts over the past year. I’m going to leave out the ones that viralized because they were trashy click-bait. Before you read further, I need to give one last...
View ArticleOn Playing Chicken With Nuclear War
Donald Trump has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. And our global politics continue to resemble an elementary school playground. I think I get what Trump is trying to do. He’s trying to...
View ArticleRod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo
For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging generalizations about people of other races. We call it racism when somebody does that. Because of this taboo, we...
View ArticleControl: The Greatest Temptation of Satan
One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is “Control” from the album Automatic. When I got to see them live in New Orleans this fall, I screamed out several dozen times...
View ArticleJerry Falwell Jr. Unveils the Anti-Christ
No, I’m not going to say Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. Because I don’t believe that the Bible’s role when it speaks about an anti-Christ is to predict future events. But I think the term can still...
View ArticleTheology That Builds Walls
Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of the United States if this were not the issue that won him the presidency and gave him the most visceral connection to his...
View ArticleThe Serpent’s Fruit (In Poetic Form)
He understood clearly That all he had to do Was hold the Bible Courageously for all The cameras after The black people had Been removed by Tear gas; and this has Always been the purpose Of the Bible:...
View Article“All People Are Holy”: The Theology Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summarized one of my core religious convictions in a speech given on February 27, 2020 in a hearing about “religious freedom.” She said: “I know and it is part of my faith that...
View ArticleDonald Trump And The Exorcism Of White America
Trump and his supporters believe that he is a scapegoat. In their understanding of what that means, he is being blamed for things that aren’t his fault by “fake” news media and a “deep state”...
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