📘 News Articles

Here are some noteworthy news items I've read. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily indicate endorsement of a view.

I attempt to keep links to articles with lasting relevance and I weed them out from time to time if I feel their time has come and gone.

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Evangelicals Don’t Love Donald Trump Enough
  • Christianity
  • Politics
December 20, 2024
How Liberal America Came to Its Senses
  • Politics
December 20, 2024
Googly Eyes Placed on Sculptures Follow Residents in this Oregon City
  • Bend
December 18, 2024
The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy
  • Book
December 18, 2024
Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters
  • Politics
December 18, 2024
Using Bonhoeffer
  • Christianity
December 06, 2024
It’s Never Too Late to Learn an Instrument
  • Culture
December 01, 2024
Thanksgiving Should Be in October
  • Culture
November 26, 2024
‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality
  • Christianity
November 20, 2024
Don’t Give Up on the Truth
  • Politics
November 13, 2024
Power Without Integrity Destroys Us
  • Christianity
  • Politics
November 08, 2024
How Trump Neutralized His Abortion Problem
  • Politics
November 07, 2024
Trump Won. Now What?
  • Politics
November 06, 2024
Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t.
  • Politics
November 02, 2024
30 Incredibly Lazy Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas
  • Culture
October 31, 2024
The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
October 28, 2024
Does Jesus Tell Us to Prioritize Caring for Our Own? - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
October 22, 2024
THIS Is What Christian Nationalism Looks Like
  • Christianity
  • Politics
October 17, 2024
October 7 Supercharged Anti-Semitism in the United States
  • Politics
October 07, 2024
The Bible Contains Discrepancies. That Doesn’t Make It Untrustworthy. - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
October 02, 2024
25 Precepts for This (and Every) Election - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
  • Politics
October 01, 2024
Abortion decision-making: slow down vs. speed up
  • Christianity
September 26, 2024
The Uneasy Conscience of Christian Nationalism - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
  • Politics
September 26, 2024
Triumphalism After Dobbs Was a Mistake - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
September 26, 2024
We Are Insufficiently Immunized Against Nazis
  • Politics
  • Christianity
September 26, 2024
Here’s one evangelical who doesn’t favor Harris or Trump
  • Christianity
  • Politics
September 23, 2024
Echo chamber evidence
  • Culture
  • Politics
September 18, 2024
How School Drop-Off Became a Nightmare
  • Culture
September 17, 2024
Why You Should Keep a Paper Training Journal (and How to Set One Up)
  • Running
September 16, 2024
American Freedom and Christian Freedom
  • Christianity
  • Politics
September 15, 2024
America’s Cloven Fiction
  • Politics
September 15, 2024
You’ve Got to Read Books
  • Book
September 15, 2024
The Moral Test of Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants
  • Christianity
  • Politics
September 14, 2024
Public School Can Be a Training Ground for Faith - Christianity Today
  • Christianity
  • Culture
September 11, 2024
The Real Problem With Emoji
  • Culture
September 11, 2024
Life coach or therapist? Know the differences
  • Culture
September 10, 2024
Dozens of Oregon law enforcement officers have been members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia
  • Politics
September 09, 2024
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
  • Christianity
  • Conspiracy
September 09, 2024
How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement
  • Politics
September 09, 2024
Immersion in fictional worlds allows us to own our dark side
  • Book
September 09, 2024
Is contemporary (fiction) writing getting worse?
  • Book
September 09, 2024
It’s Time to Stop Saying “If You’re Not Paying, You’re the Product”
  • Culture
September 09, 2024
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking
  • Culture
September 09, 2024
The Case Against the Grammar Scolds
  • Culture
September 09, 2024
The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis
  • Politics
September 09, 2024
To Prepare for a Crisis, Read Fiction - War on the Rocks
  • Politics
  • Book
September 09, 2024
What Everyone Should Know About Reconstruction 150 Years After the 15th Amendment’s Ratification
  • Race
  • Politics
September 09, 2024
Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy
  • Politics
September 09, 2024
“I was a conspiracy theorist, too”
  • Conspiracy
September 09, 2024
A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
  • Politics
September 08, 2024
Public Schools Really Can Save America
  • Culture
September 05, 2024
Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse
  • Politics
  • Christianity
August 27, 2024
Did God Save Donald Trump?
  • Christianity
  • Politics
August 21, 2024
The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ
  • Race
  • Politics
August 21, 2024
When Is It Okay to Not Finish a Book?
  • Book
August 21, 2024
A Field Guide to the Flags of the Far Right
  • Politics
August 10, 2024
Logical fallacies: Seven ways to spot a bad argument
  • Culture
August 06, 2024
One nerd to rule them all
  • Culture
July 26, 2024
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Formula for Happiness
  • Culture
July 25, 2024
The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator
  • Politics
July 15, 2024
How Liberal College Campuses Benefit Conservative Students
  • Politics
July 08, 2024
Are Christian values American values?
  • Politics
  • Christianity
July 04, 2024
Revival and Revolution
  • Politics
  • Christianity
July 02, 2024
There were probably more constitutional constraints operating on George III in 1776 than now operate on the US president
  • Politics
July 02, 2024
How ‘pro-life’ lost all meaning
  • Politics
June 24, 2024
The End of Roe: Two Years Later
  • Politics
June 24, 2024
For Hamas, Everything Is Going According to Plan
  • Politics
June 17, 2024
The Jury, Not the Prosecutor, Decides Who's Guilty
  • Politics
May 31, 2024
What Christians Might Fear from Trump
  • Christianity
  • Politics
May 23, 2024
She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
  • Politics
May 15, 2024
Hawking Bibles for Holy Week
  • Politics
  • Christianity
April 18, 2024
Christianity Was Always for the Poor
  • Christianity
April 01, 2024
The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement
  • Politics
  • Christianity
April 01, 2024
What History Warriors Get Wrong
  • Culture
  • Politics
March 17, 2024
How to Show Kids the Joy of Reading
  • Culture
March 16, 2024
Civil religion is different from Christian Nationalism
  • Christianity
  • Politics
March 09, 2024
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find
  • Politics
March 09, 2024
PragerU is a conservative video giant. Here's why it's trying to get into schools
  • Culture
March 07, 2024
Where Did Evangelicals Go Wrong?
  • Christianity
March 06, 2024
Are smart phones ruining our culture?
  • Culture
February 29, 2024
Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Aimed to Make Cops a Gateway to Rehab, Not Jail. State Leaders Failed to Make It Work.
  • Culture
February 29, 2024
The State of the Culture, 2024
  • Culture
February 29, 2024
The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says
  • Climate
February 29, 2024
A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds
  • Culture
February 17, 2024
Part of Me Will Always Be Grateful for James Dobson
  • Christianity
February 07, 2024
Middle-Earth Heroes
  • Culture
January 16, 2024
Disqualifying Trump Is Not Antidemocratic
  • Politics
January 10, 2024
After Dobbs Supreme Court Ruling, Little Change on Legal Abortions
  • Culture
  • Politics
January 06, 2024
How Republicans have changed their tune on Jan. 6
  • Politics
January 06, 2024
The Danger Ahead
  • Politics
January 06, 2024
Why My Favorite Strength Training Equipment is a Backpack Made for Distance Running
  • Running
January 02, 2024
Selling Friends
  • Culture
December 27, 2023
What Trump Could Do With a Second Term
  • Politics
December 05, 2023
In Praise of Repair Culture
  • Christianity
  • Culture
December 05, 2023
My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump
  • Christianity
  • Politics
November 28, 2023
Trump Is Becoming Frighteningly Clear About What He Wants
  • Christianity
  • Politics
November 22, 2023
The Problem With Turkey Trots
  • Running
  • Culture
November 21, 2023
‘Christianity Will Have Power’
  • Christianity
  • Politics
November 20, 2023
Hamas Must Go
  • Politics
November 14, 2023
Why Does God Allow the Innocent to Suffer?
  • Christianity
November 03, 2023
Putting Politics Back in Christmas - Theology in the raw
  • Christianity
October 31, 2023
The Bible on Self-Defense: A Response to Doug Wilson - Theology in the raw
  • Christianity
October 05, 2023
The Agony of the School Car Line
  • Culture
September 18, 2023
Don't Spy On Your Kids' Phones
  • Culture
September 16, 2023
Richard Hanania and the Allure of Racist Pseudoscience
  • Race
September 15, 2023
Actual Indoctrination Comes to Public Schools
  • Race
September 13, 2023
How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind
  • Politics
September 08, 2023
The Fourteenth Amendment Fantasy
  • Politics
August 30, 2023
Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency
  • Politics
August 20, 2023
The American Evangelical Church is in Crisis. There's Only One Way Out.
  • Christianity
July 25, 2023
Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t Encouraging.
  • Politics
July 20, 2023
Despite What the Logging Industry Says, Cutting Down Trees Isn't Stopping Catastrophic Wildfires
  • Climate
July 18, 2023
Climate denialism has burnt to a crisp
  • Climate
July 09, 2023
Here's what happened when affirmative action ended at California public colleges
  • Race
June 30, 2023
Eat More MSG—You Know, for Your Health
  • Culture
May 20, 2023
Tim Keller: How American Christianity Could Grow Again
  • Christianity
February 05, 2023
The Brutal Alternate World in Which the U.S. Abandoned Ukraine
  • Politics
December 22, 2022
The Far Right Is Getting What It Asked For
  • Politics
December 02, 2022
How to address antisemitic rhetoric when you encounter it
  • Race
December 01, 2022
Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?
  • Culture
November 30, 2022
What the Bible Says About Social Media
  • Christianity
November 22, 2022
What Is Contrition Without Reparation?
  • Race
November 15, 2022
Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
  • Covid
October 31, 2022
Big Money Bought the Forests. Small Logging Communities Are Paying the Price.
  • Culture
October 16, 2022
Mask-wearing reduces COVID incidence by 53%, study shows
  • Covid
October 16, 2022
What actually is critical race theory anyway?
  • Race
October 16, 2022
Why White Voters With Racist Views Often Still Support Black Republicans
  • Race
October 16, 2022
Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right
  • Politics
October 03, 2022
Make Christian politics great again!
  • Christianity
  • Politics
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