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Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…these latest allegations of plagiarism committed by its #1 New York Times bestselling author, and why it appears to have failed to fact check Driscoll’s books prior to publication. Furthermore, MHC’s ongoing debates over trademarking its name and logos indicate that MHC leaders have no problem issuing “cease and desist” letters when they feel their material might be used without proper citation and credit. So they understand the principle of copy…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…advance work that would be the envy of any presidential candidate. Once a site had been chosen for one of Graham’s crusades, for instance, the planning would take three years, and several staff members would actually relocate to the city in order to coordinate the preparations in concert with local churches. In addition to Graham, the Association also sponsored a number of “associate evangelists,” including Howard Jones, Ralph Bell and Leighton F…

Driscoll Makes Plagiarism Complaint Disappear

By Evan Derkacz

…late at this point as to why Ms. Mefferd has removed the material from her site.” But the greater likelihood is that nothing quite so high-minded as “Unity” (nor ideological as misogyny) was required to put an end to the accusations. Although he’s appropriately reluctant to make any accusations, Trueman suspects that something more nefarious is at play here, something worrisome (emphasis mine): the health of the Christian subcultures in our socie…

“Flipping the Script” to Win Gays Back to the Evangelical Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…re’s always the community. “If we took friendship seriously as a potential site of devotion and sacrifice, far fewer people would feel neglected and unwanted,” Roen quotes from Eve Tushnet. Sure, but friendship can only go so far. I have very few friends willing to reach the level of intimacy needed to fulfill that deep longing for true companionship. Somewhere, a line gets crossed. The other problem here is that the “friendship” offered by so ma…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…and, Maine, and Minnesota. But it’s likely that a pragmatic regard for the numbers also had something to do with it. Mormons make up less than 1% of the population of the states of Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. In California, home to Proposition 8, LDS people constitute 2 – 3% of the state’s population. In Hawaii, 70,000 Mormons comprise 5% of the state’s population. Mormon-majority communities have been in existence on Oahu’s North Shore since…

Spiritual (And Jewish), But Not Religious

By Martin Kavka

…r Jewish institutions that are focused on the state of Israel as the prime site in which they might invest their sense of Jewishness. (And who knows how the Reform Jews without belief understand their religious lives, if at all?) Given the increase of the “nones” among young Jewish Americans, this disconnect can only increase in the decades to come. Jewish leaders who continually wring their hands about the future of this allegedly ever-dying peop…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…are leaving the church in droves. Well we’re thinking of starting a second site because we have so many young adults. Do you think you’ve found a way to re-engage those young people? There are generational realities and cultural realities. Most of the time if someone from a mainline church says, “We have young people who come,” they’re probably “old” young people who are not necessarily postmodern even though they are chronologically young. Post-m…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…n’s solution to growing dissatisfaction and disaffection, then, is the opposite of Evans’: “Millennials: why don’t we take our pastors, parents, and older Christian brothers and sisters out to coffee and listen to them? Perhaps instead of perpetuating our sense of entitlement and Twitter/blog/Instagram-fueled obsession with hearing ourselves speak, we could just shut up for a minute and listen to the wisdom of those who have gone before? … [What m…

Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?

By M. Sophia Newman

…Bodh Gaya resident who spent his childhood in the Mahabodhi Temple at the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, says that while passivity is “most compassionate,” he admits “there are limits” to what people achieve. Epperson notes a limit of language. She explains non-self as a core Buddhist teaching (“You just can’t refer to a permanent soul inside someone”) but emphasizes that “when Buddhism says there is no self, they are talking on an ultimate…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…nd death are no longer the ultimate power. Jesus is risen! There from that site, holy words touch two intersecting nerves, the religious and the political. For some in power, these disciples speak heresy (Jesus is the power of God) and for others in power, these disciples speak sedition (Jesus is the power). Only criminals touch nerves at this level and receive the consequences—“So they arrested them and put them in custody… (4:3)” Real preaching…