Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical Proportions
I hate to break it to you, but Noah’s Flood is not a real thing. As geologist David Montgomery wrote in his recent history, The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, the religious...
View ArticleImmigration Reform According to Ralph Reed’s Bible
Reed’s helpful advice for politicans who missed biblical injunctions against a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
View ArticleGOP Lawmaker Botches Bible to Punish Poor
I do not think that verse means what you think it means.
View ArticleChristians v. Gays: The Damage Done
Christians (understood to mean here heterosexual activist traditionalists) have become identified with actively pursuing the denial of rights and benefits to others that they themselves enjoy. In other...
View ArticleNew Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics
As budget cuts are hotly debated in the House, Godonomics comes along to tell us "what the Almighty says about the almighty dollar." Finally.
View ArticleNadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’
"The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It's not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody's going to say, 'Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber...
View ArticleDoes Religion Condemn Homosexuality?
Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true...
View ArticleHobby Lobby, Contraception, the Supreme Court, and the Bible
Is rewriting the rules on religious freedom in the works?
View ArticleBibi’s Bad History
In his UN speech on Iran, Israel’s PM attempted to force a zero-sum game of destroying the opposition by force.
View ArticleNoah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices
The crafters of biblical stories knew that people came in variety and accounted for that in their narratives. Not so Aronofsky.
View ArticleRape-Marriage of Nigerian Girls is ‘Biblical Marriage’
Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils,...
View ArticleGod and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines
Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion
View ArticleBobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.
Over the past few months, Louisiana Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has been making aggressive moves...
View ArticleGodly Game or Godless Satire? Countering Biblical Ignorance with Heretical Humor
“We love the Bible,” the game's creators claim, “we just have a funny way of showing it.”
View ArticleElie Wiesel Distorts Bible in Controversial “Child Sacrifice” Ad
A close look at scripture challenges Elie Wiesel's narcissistic new tale of exceptionalism.
View ArticleMarriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical
An RD interview by Candace Chellew-Hodge
View ArticleAnger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With...
How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated?
View ArticleWhy Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?
"When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible."
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