Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing
But this idea of the Christian life as “struggle” with “baggage” is a ruse to keep the queers in the closet.
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Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite
Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed.
Read MoreAnti-Gay ‘Courage’
Dare to be bigoted.
Read MoreEx-Gay Groups Go Back to the Future
A suggestion for the lonely few who still believe they can “pray away the gay.”
Read MoreSouthern Baptist Convention Declares Gay Rights Are Not Civil Rights
In New Orleans today, hypocrisy and hubris.
Read MoreNew Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right
It doesn’t even measure what it claims to be measuring.
Read MoreKilling Love in North Carolina
A bump in the rocky road to marriage equality for gay and lesbian people.
Read MoreMethodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”
LGBT advocates, sitting at the edges of the convention floor, were deemed a “security concern.”
Read MoreClergy Come Out as Atheists
And “The Clergy Project” is there to serve as safe haven.
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Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman
It’s usually clear to Bart Ehrman who loves him and who hates him. Evangelical Christians have been raking Ehrman over the coals for years for his rejection of biblical inerrancy—and atheists and humanists have embraced his writing as ammunition in the fight against the evils of organized religion. In his new book, Did Jesus Exist?, Ehrman debunks the work of so-called “mythicists”—writers who have argued that a man named Jesus who taught about the coming Kingdom of God never really existed, and that the religions created around him are nothing but fantasy.
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