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There is Power In Numbers!
I work the overnight shift at my new job at the County Police Department, so I usually don’t eat lunch until about two in the morning, a time when no…

Nerdjacking Old Glory
An irritable butch dyke with a fifth of Southern Comfort does her duty at a Boy Scout jamboree.

Goshen College’s Star-Spangled Problem
At first glance, Goshen College’s decision to scrap the national anthem at sporting events due to the anthem’s violent lyrics might appear to be yet another case of anti-American liberal…

I Pledge Allegiance to the Christian Flag?
Flags get people all bent out of shape, that’s for sure. They will kill and die to defend them and freak out if you let them touch the ground and…

Get Out of Jail with God
Mark Bergen, KtB circulation manager and writer, has a piece over on Religion Dispatches today. Responding to gutted state and federal budgets, the religious right is stepping into America’s prisons,…

Who’s Amish Now?
Is avoiding the health care mandate worth fastening your clothes with straight pins?

That Anglican Divorce Thing (Again!)
Your Holiness, we didn’t see this one coming— Anglican congregations are divorcing—amicably! They’re all “No thanks, Rome, we’re cool. We’re even praying for each other.” We know, Your Holiness. They…

Sarah Posner Now Sleuthing for RD
All you religious right no-goodies, watch your back. Investigative journalist Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters and The American Prospect‘s much-missed…

Barbershop Dharma
God-breathed, with a little off the side. A new excerpt from the KtB anthology, Believer, Beware.

Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away
The disastrous politics of Rapture, in an excerpt from Patience with God.