Category Archives: the Church

Joss Whedon’s #Avengers and Religion #Whedony

HOW TO WATCH COMIC BOOK MOVIES AS AN ANGRY BLACK MAN (theologian) You know, I have been really stoked about this movie. And it didn’t disappoint. His Marky Markness, Joel (linked here) wrote about some of the eschatology of Joss … Continue reading

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Dominionist David Barton Continues To WhiteWash The History of Slavery

The Color Of Thomas Jefferson’s Enemies I have written on here before about the Christians who call themselves Dominionists, and who want to set up a Domination System in the name of Jeebus. In fact, I argued, given the Dominionist … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on Religion and Scholarship: Deane Gilbreathe & Larry Hurtado

This week,New Testament scholar Larry Hurtado offered a post on his concerns about admnistrators and their dictatorial ways. Of course, it’s easy to NOT disagree with Hurtado for people who affirm the idea of academic freedom, as an expansion of … Continue reading

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On Being a TOP 200 CHURCH BLOG, GENDER, and that racism thingy

IF THE BLOGOSPHERE IS A HIGH SCHOOL, POLITICAL JESUS IS YOUR BLACK FRIEND I’ll be honest, when I first read that there was yet another list out there ranking Christian blogs, I was quite cynical; and I was surprised when … Continue reading

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On #Love4Trayvon: Richard Land, Fox News, and Conservative White Race Hustlers

If you (my regular audience) had not noticed, I have avoided posting on anything for a while; not because I did not have the time, but because over the distraught I felt for the Trayvon Martin and Rekia Boyd stories … Continue reading

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