Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012
An RD holiday sampler of stories & viewpoints we would have liked to read in 2012.
On The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
You and I both long for a “new awakening.” The difference is that I believe we did in fact see a new awakening in this election. An awakening to the the need to reject all theocratic language and all theocratic posturing for the sake of authentic religious freedom.
Read MoreAnd Now: Forgive Us Our Debts!
The next big thing: the ‘fiscal cliff.’
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Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel
Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
Read MoreWhite Protestants in Decline
Reasons to cheer—and possibly fear.
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Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?
All the invocations of God’s name and snippets of the Bible and Nuns On the Bus and what have you can’t really help the Democrats so long as the larger religiously-tinged framing about what’s good and what’s bad remain untouched.
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Hell Is (For) Other People
Judgment is a process, a refiner’s fire, not a permanent condition. If people can’t abide the idea of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot gliding right through the Pearly Gates, they don’t have to worry. But no one should ever say “never” about anyone else’s chances. The theological and ethical point is to try to have the mind, and more importantly, the loving heart of God.
Read MorePaul Ryan: “This Is Not Theology…”
Really?
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Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?
In the Department of No Surprise, we report this week on the excommunication from polite conversation of one Ron Paul, the odd-man-out candidate for the Republican–presidential nomination. Odd man, because Paul is just his own oddly compounded self and stays that way.
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Red White and Blue No Longer
According to the Census Bureau, white babies account for less than half of U.S. births. How will white Christians, who have long believed this to be a white Christian nation, respond?
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