wingedbeast

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/18/smart-people-saying-smart-things-1-18-26/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72683

Listen to Samuel Freedman, Angela Denker, David Dasharath Kalal, Christy Staats, Autistic Abby, an anonymous Minneapolis resident, and some dude who has to go to work in the morning.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/18/smart-people-saying-smart-things-1-18-26/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72683

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/15/yeah-damn-right-shell-rise-again/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72573

Love Is All Around. Plus: You can learn a lot about a guy from how he talks about his ex(es).

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/15/yeah-damn-right-shell-rise-again/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72573

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/13/the-lumpers-the-splitters-and-me/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72621

The "evangelical definition wars" are, in part, a debate between "lumpers" and "splitters." This gets awkward -- and personal -- because the gatekeepers are also out here trying to be splitters.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/13/the-lumpers-the-splitters-and-me/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72621

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/09/lbcf-a-girat-exclusive/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72609

Readers are willing to suspend disbelief when asked to imagine the unimaginable, the fantastical and outlandish. But they won't play along when writers get normal, ordinary life completely wrong.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/09/lbcf-a-girat-exclusive/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72609

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/07/tomorrow-never-knows/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72579

We have always been at war with ... Greenland? This was never the Proper Christian Stance enforced by white evangelical leaders, but the Proper Christian Stance is always changing.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/07/tomorrow-never-knows/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72579

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/05/obedient-subjects/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72552

Two years ago, the idea of the U.S. sending it's military to conquer Greenland was recognized by everyone as an absurd, ugly joke. But now the absurd, ugly joke is in charge.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/01/05/obedient-subjects/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=72552