Elizabeth at The Joy of Knitting writes:

Oh, Elizabeth. Where to begin. I’ll start. You’re hurting the franchise. Read your damn Book. You are not showing “mutual respect, love, compassion, understanding, and integrity” with this post. You are showing quite the opposite. Save your prayers. Women like me would prefer you spend time on the hungry, the homeless, and the vulnerable. We? …

Sinners make the best Christians (I hope)

So this song sticks in my head a lot, which is awesome and sad at the same time. I mean, “Sooner or later, God’s gonna you down?” Can I get an amen? And a tissue? And a happier song, maybe? As I’ve said multiple times, yesterday I was on the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR …

Seen in yesterday’s NY Times: “The evangelicalism of old white men:”

I am a big admirer of Shane Claiborne (more on him here) and he co-wrote, with Tony Campolo, this Times op-ed. I have also been a fan of the Red Letter Christian movement. Whaddya think?

The most and least educated among U.S. religions

If you run your finger down the list, there’s my beloved “Churches of Christ,” with just 18 percent with a college degree. This is astounding to me. There was a lot of talk about college in my youth group. We were all going, period. I think I always assumed that was the attitude at all …

Survey: Most churches stayed “above the electoral fray”

A new Pew study says that Among voters who report attending religious services at least once a month, relatively few say information on political parties or candidates was made available to them in their places of worship (14 percent), and even fewer say they were encouraged to vote in a particular way by their clergy …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

I do not understand the support Donald J. Trump enjoys among my people, the evangelicals. I appreciate that we are willing to forgive and forget, but that all-important element, “repentance,” appears to be missing in the Republican candidate. This is judge-y of me, I know, but I’m not alone in my dismay. This, from one of …

There’s been a slip in our quality control

A new PRRI/Brookings poll says that white evangelicals are more willing to overlook immoral acts than they have been in the past. In 2011, just 30 percent of white evangelicals said that an elected official who commits an immoral act in his/her personal life can “still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public …

A Wall of Shame of Evangelicals

Leftover sends this: Despite Sexual Assault Claims, Evangelical Leaders Sticking With Trump from Buzzflash. Here’s a clip: Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and a member of Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board, called the comments “lewd, offensive, and indefensible,” and then added that he was still voting for him. There are no …

It never hurts to remind yourself…

…there there are some truly disturbed people who call themselves Christian. Louis Gohmert? We are praying for you.

Say goodnight, Pat

Before we leave the Republican nominee in the dust, let’s let Bro. Pat Robertson, that paragon of all things Jesus-y, have his say. Talking about committing sexual assault is “macho.” Good to know. And so we wave farewell as Pat Robertson takes that one last step into irrelevancy. Bless his heart.