Actually, Nobody Critiques Anything
“If Jesus came to your church this week, half the saints would critique His sandals” This is what you might say when you haven’t been to church since 1978. Legend has it that decades ago, churches were inhabited primarily by judgmental snobs who dressed up on Sunday morning not because they revered God but because […]
Death Doesn’t Make Anyone Good
Here’s a strange thing we do when famous people die. We become their biographers. Not real biographers, obviously. More like emotional interns hastily assigned to the “Say Something Nice” department. Celebrity dies. Internet springs into action. Within minutes, people who never met them are overcome with the urge to publicly affirm that the deceased was […]
Keep Waiting To Have Kids!
One of the comments under my recent post on declining birth rates said, “Hands down the best way to encourage births in this country is to invest in the social safety net. Also, actually, invest in robust sex education (not abstinence education, SEX) alongside actually relaxing anti abortion laws. Crazy I know, but if you […]
Neutral Is Impossible
Tell me your life story but without bias. Don’t talk about politics. Don’t mention controversial subjects. Avoid expressing personal opinions. Don’t talk about your feelings. Stick with provable facts. And for goodness sake, leave out your religious beliefs. I want the neutral version of your life. Our culture is in love with the idea of […]
Did You Know Mary Was Not A Fugitive?
Rather than celebrate God’s mercy and love during the Christmas season, a church in Illinois opted to reimagine the nativity this year. Mary and Joseph were stuffed into gas masks like they were fleeing Chernobyl. Baby Jesus was zip-tied as if Mary had just birthed a felon. The Roman soldiers make their debut Nativity appearance […]
Everything That Topples Is Not Art
Artist Roman Signer unveils his sand bucket sculpture. What do you think about his work? pic.twitter.com/JFc7TYPfdG — SULLY (@SULLY10X) January 11, 2025 If you think knocking over a stack of sand-filled buckets qualifies as artwork, then Roman Signor is an artist. He stacks containers of sand in a column, allows gravity to act, and then […]
Every Marriage Is Religious, Y’all.
Non-religious wedding officiant services are what happen when self described ‘non-religious’ humans charge money to perform a ritual for humans who mock traditional wedding rituals. A ‘non-religious ceremony’ is like a meat-free hamburger. It looks very similar to what it claims to be but lacks the crucial ingredient. I’d wager the ‘non-religious’ vows to be […]
Doubt Will Help You Relax
When you find yourself anxious about everything that’s going on in the world, a healthy dose of doubt can help alleviate your fears. When the world feels like it’s unraveling and your newsfeed is screaming that hope is lost, there is great comfort in the tiniest amount of doubt! Maybe you’re worried that America is […]
What Are Those Puppets Telling Us?
A good way to get a feel for the general theology floating around in our culture is to pay attention to how God shows up in movies. Not in sermons, or books, or lofty philosophical debates, but in whatever Hollywood churns out. That’s why, while watching It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, I suddenly […]
Put The 10 Commandments In Every School
Let’s put the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. Why not? What’s the downside? Are we worried an entire generation will grow up thinking stealing is bad? That adultery ruins families? That killing people is forbidden? Oh no. What a nightmare. Imagine the chaos of self-controlled, morally anchored teenagers roaming the halls. Terrifying! Unless […]