Monthly Archives: June 2016

The continuing decline of the SBC

Like Bernie Sanders, the Southern Baptists just can’t understand that the game is over. Assembling in St. Louis for their annual meeting next week, they will be confronted with some grim realities: Membership declined by more than 200,000-people in 2015. … Continue reading

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Memo from the Propaganda Underground, ctd

Muhammed Ali is burning in Hell!! Continue reading

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Old Testament-world, ctd

A Pakistani woman burned her daughter alive because she married a man of whom the family disapproved. A Pakistani woman was arrested Wednesday after dousing her daughter with kerosene and burning her alive, allegedly because the girl had defied her … Continue reading

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Searching for validation

I’ve speculated through the years that evangelicals aren’t, in fact, interested in ‘saving’ anybody. Perhaps, I’ve wondered, what they really want is affirmation from yet one more person that they aren’t still hopelessly screwed-up, that they’ve finally got it right? … Continue reading

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Paul Ryan’s self-abasement

George Will gets it exactly right: Paul Ryan disgraced himself when he endorsed The Donald. Some say in extenuation of Ryan’s behavior that if he could not embrace Trump, he could not continue as speaker. But is Ryan, who was … Continue reading

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