If one has not made the catechism of preparing to die well a feature of their prayer life, charity, and liturgical practices, then medicine will offer structures of power and control that are difficult to resist.

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Evangelicals would be wise to recognize how some features of this overcorrection can send Protestant congregations down a problematic path.

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Political Therapeutic Deism is a system of beliefs which invoke religious terms for the purposes of affirming one’s politics.

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Is there any other way to homeschool, the teacher friend asked me?

Why, yes, there is, of course, but even the teacher had no idea.

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Infinite swiping in a downward motion is based on the design of slot machines.

It’s hard not to read into that a desire to yet again swipe God down from the cloud so that we might control him—a jinn in our pocket.

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The centering of completely unforced, detached choice, leads to the idea that even minors can and should have an absolute right to make of their body what they will, including the choice to have parts of their body surgically and irrevocably modified.

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For the most part, the new Christian right is almost entirely lacking in the discipline, self-control, and judgment required to secure real political victories in a democratic system.

Small wonder many of them want a totalitarian dictator, then.

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