Monthly Archives: April 2016

Back in the ol’ hometown, ctd

So basically a normal Monday afternoon. Shooting in the streets, innocents injured. https://t.co/fEbGcVgPbs — John Roberts DSCAN (@DetroitScanner) April 18, 2016

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Be true to your cult, ctd

I pointed a few days ago toward Albert Mohler’s unseemly introduction of C.J. Mahaney at the Together For The Gospel conference. Though Mohler has not acknowledged a word of it — Southern Baptists blithely refuse to acknowledge unpleasantness, ever — … Continue reading

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Snarking at abuse victims

C.J. Mahaney is the Calvinist founder of a network of Maryland-based churches known as Sovereign Grace Ministries, now re-organized as Sovereign Grace Churches. The original organization disintegrated amid a barrage of sex abuse scandals, and Mahaney decamped to Louisville, Kentucky, … Continue reading

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My day in court

I spent most of Monday in Superior Court, Granville County, North Carolina, in connection with a murder case I’ve been following. Perhaps it would make a good longread, I thought, or at least a feature for some magazine somewhere. It … Continue reading

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Faith healers

A reader sends a link to yet another appalling story of a child condemned to a life of ill health because of her nitwit parents’ refusal to seek medical care because the Bible promises a cure for those who have … Continue reading

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