Reading Time: 9 minutes Watching her, reading her words, I get the sense that she at least thinks she has genuinely and truly won something big–and her supporters largely seem to agree. She does not have the tight, smug tone of someone who is insisting she won even though she knows she’s been handed a crushing loss. I heard people talking exactly like this all the time in church, and I hear Christians talking like this every single day nowadays. I think she sincerely thinks she won something. But what does she believe she won?
Mike Huckabee
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Kim Davis: Right-Wing Theocrats Are Actually Right About One Thing.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Really, the only redeeming feature of these numerous and increasingly-disturbed-sounding predictions is that not only are they not going to happen, but that the people making them are going to have to come to grips with the fact that they made them–because their flocks may be very good indeed at forgetting false predictions, having had lots of practice by now, but the internet never forgets. We’re going to remember these wild-eyed, finger-pointing, spittle-flecked false predictions for a long time to come. And we’re going to be amused to realize something else.
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Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Kim Davis Edition.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Kim Davis, the bigot-for-Jesus County Clerk who refused to issue licenses because she thought equal marriage for LGBTQ people was ickie and made Jesus mad, has been thrown in jail for refusing to do her job as a duly elected official of her state. Today I want to talk about why I think she went to the lengths she did.
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3 Reasons Why We Aren’t Shutting Up About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Supporters of Josh Duggar and his parents continue to abound, so I thought it might be useful to talk about why it is we keep talking about the scandal they all wish we’d shut up about already. Here are three reasons why we aren’t shutting up about what he or his parents did.
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What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of Josh Duggar and his parents does not look anything like this list.
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Josh Duggar: Excusing the inexcusable
Reading Time: 12 minutes The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that previously hadn’t even breathed a word about the scandal are now tiptoeing into the waters with super-carefully-worded pieces about what he did, now that it’s painfully obvious that Christians as a group are talking about it. Mainly, unfortunately, they’re largely defending it.
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Exiting Far East: Falling Apart.
Reading Time: 13 minutes As I look back at my experience living abroad, brief as it was, one thing that really springs out at me is how secular Japan was. It might have Shinto shrines in its shopping arcades and monasteries sprinkled around its urban residential neighborhoods, its television might have the occasional spiritual anime character, but essentially its […]
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“Billy Did It Too” is Not An Adequate Reason to Misbehave
Reading Time: 14 minutes Sexism is over. Rand Paul said so, so we can all just relax.