“Cheer me or die”: Cruz to swarthy pseudo-Christians
Ted Cruz's dispensationalism? Incorrigible heresy. Evangelical worship (generally speaking)? Eroticized narcissism.
View ArticleWednesday, 10/8/14
Will Gordon College offer a pinch of incense? Also, drive-by virtue, my developing Ringxiety and more.
View ArticleThursday, 12/11/14
Just two requests: … We used to say “under the radar” You knew, didn’t you? Abandoning chemical uterine defoliants is a start Our sincere, untrustworthy Governor 1 May I make two requests? Love me, but...
View ArticleTuesday, 2/24/15
Musings on our policies in the Middle East and Africa, with an emphasis on the obsession to distinguish true religion from false.
View ArticleVacation: too brief, too close to home
One simple RFRA question Christian Conservatives: Have you figured it out yet? A Real Theocrat The last time local media were in such high dudgeon A Proverb that influenced this blog 1 I was on...
View ArticleMonday, 10/5/15
Kim Davis is the wrong kind of person. Every Christian a theologian? Does common sense need a proof-text? Plus five shorts.
View ArticleFeast of St. Stephen
If you're all blissed out from Christmas and don't want a downer, you might want to skip to item 4 (good, bracing advice from the past) and leave it at that. I'll understand.
View ArticleIdes of March
Wherein Tipsy tries to tell it like it is about our horrifying social unwinding, gradually moving, though, to things supremely lovely, noble and good.
View ArticleSunday, 7/17/16
Morality asks what constitutes right action and why? Virtue asks what kind of person is able to think and act in a right way? Following the man of virtue.
View ArticleWednesday, 7/27/16
The newly-godless GOP leaves the Dems a rhetorical opening; why DT is the wrong guy for nationalists; Hatfield is bitter about McCoy; Tim LaHaye will ride no more; and CA's assisted suicide law.
View ArticleTuesday, 8/9/16
The Anti-Discrimination Religion; Sewage and Wine; Dialogue; Essential, contingent and normal generic statements; Religious humanism's bad odor.
View ArticleWednesday 8/17/16
A little light today in numbers, but I hope you'll find it thought-provoking.
View ArticleSunday 10/23/16
Good without God? Tipsy's "Evangelicalism" Category gets a meaningful name change. And, of course, dread political hypocrisy and corruption.
View ArticleIs it good for man to be alone?
It it good for man to be alone? Seems so, according to some. 7 other items.
View ArticleA life in a string of epiphanies
I’ve been blogging now for more than seven years, and religion has been a frequent topic. But I’m pretty sure I’ve never set out an orderly account of my religious pilgrimage or explained just what my...
View ArticleNeither Nor
Neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant, I nevertheless pay a lot of attention to both, because they are where the culturally significant religious action is in my homeland. Likewise, I pay attention to...
View ArticleUn-learning
Sometimes, after a wrong start, you have to un-learn things. Continue reading →
View ArticleShame Culture and lesser things
"[W]hat we’re watching right now in much of our nation’s Christian politics is an explosion not of godly Christian passion, but rather of ancient southern shame/honor rage."
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