The data post from Ryan Burge caught my eye — as usual. But one of the comments below the post really got my attention. “Let’s be real, non-denoms are basically Baptists,” the commenter said. This was in response to Burge’s...
On June 23, the president of the United States stood in a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pa., to give a speech about American manufacturing. Somewhere in the middle of this speech, he purposely manufactured a person. It went like…
As if we were all in the evangelical equivalent of the film Groundhog Day, America awakens in the Garden of Eden every morning. There’s always a talking snake offering us poisonous fruit. And our current snake — President Donald Trump…
There is an expression I often see on Instagram. It’s attached to viral videos. A grandmother lighting a dessert soaked in highly flammable liquid. A man adding layer upon layer of tape to his face. Two women making soup with…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump may get away with Islamophobic language, but the same language is backfiring on some Republicans in midterm primaries. Several Republicans who have drawn national attention for outrageous comments about Muslims lost their…
Ordinary Time on the church’s liturgical calendar is so named not because it has been demoted, but rather because it is ordinal or numbered. This includes the Sundays following Epiphany up to Lent, then the longer stretch from Pentecost to…
A federal judge said he had plenty of help figuring out how to deny the Trump administration’s bid for access to sensitive voter information from Washington, D.C. “At this time, 20 district courts and the Sixth Circuit have denied the…
A union representing Internal Revenue Service employees has joined a lawsuit to block a $1.776 billion slush fund for President Donald Trump’s political allies and to prevent the president and his family from achieving immunity from tax audits. “At its…
Summers spent at my grandparents’ house in Tennessee were hot and humid. With enough cousins piled into the porch swing, you could stir up a bit of a breeze. But when that was no longer effective, we would retreat to…
Christian nationalist troubadour Sean Feucht is bragging about interrupting a peaceful procession of Muslims in Chicago Aug. 9. “We did a Jesus March right through the Muslim March in Chicago!!! This is crazy!!!” Feucht declared on social media Sunday. “This…
Theology Beer Camp began as an experiment in “pub theology.” A few “theology nerds” delving into deep subjects like God, the universe and the meaning of life over a few brews. Tripp Fuller, a theologian best known for his podcast,…
The nation has reached a “now or never” moment with Christian nationalism that requires sacrificial action to defend democracy and religious pluralism, author and researcher Robert P. Jones said on a podcast focused on faith and public life. “I do…
Recently, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. A trillion dollars is beyond my comprehension level, but The Guardian newspaper interprets Musk’s $1.1 trillion to be more than the Gross Domestic Product of all but 21 nations. The paper further…
