Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce
Are some beginning to recognize there’s nothing to fear from same-sex marriage?
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Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera
This week, the world will stop turning; or at least it will for the daytime soap opera “As The World Turns,” which officially ends after 53 years. But if we remember the soap opera solely as a torrid celebration of sexual transgression—or as a frivolous time-waster for bored housewives—we miss understanding something crucial about the relationship between popular culture and morality.
Read MoreWill California Outlaw Divorce?
A new ballot initiative proposes just that.
Read MoreBenny Hinn Can’t Heal His Marriage
Notorious healing televangelist faces divorce.
Read MoreWant to Save Marriage? Ban Divorce
Jesus was pretty clear about divorce: it’s a sin. If you live in California you can sign a petition to make it illegal — and see how it feels to try to step on the civil rights of others.
Read MoreRoman Polanski, Gays, and the Bible
When the director Roman Polanski sexual assaulted a 13-year-old, was it only US law he violated?
Read More“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce
With its new Reform Divorce site, a Men’s Rights Activist group intends to lobby for two new radically conservative divorce provisions.
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Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence
Although Rick Warren’s Saddleback church teaches women that physical abuse is not grounds for divorce, there is a growing literature for evangelical women—by their peers—that shows women how to get out of an abusive marriage, while remaining in the church.
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The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art
When Bruce Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, murdered friends and family on Christmas eve he was acting out a tragic bit of ceremonial violence, and borrowing an ironic and horrifying role from film and comics.
Read MoreEvangelicals to Gays: We Have Nothing For You
Tony Campolo admits that evangelical Christianity offers little to a lesbian or gay Christian—except loneliness, maybe.
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