Dr. Hobbs’s stinging memoir pulls back the curtain on the type of culture that has been the breeding ground for the worst of American Christian fascistic views for decades now. She lived through it—right literally through the middle of it. She’s an eyewitness who needs to be heard.
Read MoreWhile many people, including his own students, may be unaware, Talbot was an ardent defender of the Lost Cause, including its worst aspects, going so far as to affirm the Dred Scott decision and the KKK, and to preach racist propaganda from The Birth of a Nation, smearing black people, from the pulpit in several ways.
Read MoreI am told repeatedly that “the textbooks never told you” all the allegedly hard truths about the Civil War, slavery, and racism. There’s just one big problem with this thesis. . . .
Read MoreAs Christians, we do not start with advocacy for a congressional bill and then go mining in scripture for prooftexts.
Read MoreIn the same way, knowledgeable, influential, and capable women in certain Christian circles are treated like a threat to insecure men. Like a rageful Call of Duty gamer ready to throw his controller across the room, many comparatively low-intelligence, less influential, and less capable men throw temper tantrums on Twitter because certain women are making them look bad.
Read MoreI encourage all young men and women to liberate yourself from any would-be thought leader, gluttoned on their delusions of grandeur and sense of self-importance at the center of some imagined reformation, who would hold you back from investigating the full truth of such matters as racism, the Lost Cause myth, women's rights, equality, a career, and any other disapproved education in which you may be interested. Rebel against their self-professed authority on such matters. Tell them to take a hike, you'll follow what you want to read beyond your primary studies.
Read MoreThe one who says, “Come let us make bricks” is NOT the one who is actually making the bricks. The one who holds the whip is the one giving the commands. The one at the other end of the whip is making the bricks.
Read MoreSometimes evil men will fight for righteous causes.
In an ever-increasingly polarizing and tribalistic society, it's more important than ever to understand this. More than that, it's vital that we stand with God first rather than any tribe, movement, cause, church, or so on.
Read MoreChristians, let me be very clear. Dobbs expressly codifies the idea that the life of the preborn is not a fundamental right. This decision negates federal protection of abortion but also blocks federal protection of the preborn.
Read MoreIn the plainest terms possible, the abolitionist position calls on Christians to act in accordance with what we say. Instead of saying one thing and supporting another thing, we call on believers to support what they say they support.
Read MoreWhat is kinism? How do we define it? Kinism is not a formal organization, it is a relatively new term, and its ideas are comparatively imprecise compared to other more ancient heresies.
Read MoreBut what we do know from scripture is that there were a group of women who were serving in an orderly and organized fashion in the worship of the tabernacle and that they were called the “women warriors”.
Read MoreHow to be thankful?
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