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Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…rs his name. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Add in our literary history, with writers like Louise Erdrich (who lives in Minnesota but writes profoundly about North Dakota) and our epic poet Thomas McGrath, and the “flyover state” mantra becomes untenable. Don’t get me wrong: the state’s a complicated place, filled with unjust histories and memories alongside beautiful landscapes and stories. But…

Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead

By Daniel Schultz

…. Christian! Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. If you’re keeping score at home, the story so far is that the Alabama Legislature is trying to allow an individual megachurch to establish its own police force. It was blocked once by a governor who has since been brought down by one of the largest—and weirdest—sex-and-corruption scandals the U.S. has seen in a long time. The bill will almost certainly…

Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…all not lie with mankind,” to paraphrase an old book. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Sure, the procedural details of the bill could just be considered housekeeping, but simply reading the protocol for who can issue a license if those elected to do so refuse is daunting. If a county clerk, their deputy clerks, and a judge all refuse to sign and issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, the b…

Is it Fair to Question Rand Paul’s Religiosity?

By Sarah Posner

…ristianity.” (I actually think Chait’s wrong about that; more on that in a minute.) He goes on, “The trouble with Conway’s ad is that it comes perilously close to saying that non-belief in Christianity is a disqualification for public office. That’s a pretty sickening premise for a Democratic campaign.” I didn’t see Conway’s ad that way; I thought it questioned whether Paul had demonstrated disrespect for religion, as opposed to demanding that Pau…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…he faithful. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. The argument Douthat makes is similar to one made by another conservative Catholic, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, more than 350 years ago. The argument known as Pascal’s Wager is the idea that it’s better to believe in God than not, because even if the odds in favor of God’s existence are pretty remote, the cost of belief is r…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…but the cure they propose is entirely secular: winning the contest of partisan politics. To make matters just that much worse, many of the new secular voters see religion as the cause of partisan divisions, not the solution. They’re not particularly motivated by appeals to a better, more enlightened Christianity, because they’re not particularly interested in the religious project to begin with. The history of socially-engaged and inclusive Christ…

The Leadership Crisis at the End of the Megachurch Era

By Benjamin Dueholm

…ecularization. Powered by charismatic, innovative leadership and up-to-the-minute styles of worship and organization, megachurches flourished all over the country even as smaller, more traditional congregations struggled. Their leaders dispensed insights, and their techniques became models for use by pastors and churches far outside the evangelical world. They had figured out how to outsmart the trend of religious decline. But long-term trends are…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…ly abortion. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Though evangelicals (unlike Catholics) initially exhibited a range of responses to Roe v. Wade, moderate evangelicals were activated and radicalized by Francis Schaeffer’s documentary How Should We Then Live in 1977. The 10-part series, directed by his son Frank, was a broad stroke history of the Christian West, concluding with the solemn threat posed…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…gather and share in their common love. In practice, it was the school’s unsanctioned group for closeted queer students. Where they were two years after graduation was remarkable. Evangelical repression was no match for sexual orientation, authentic gender identity, or the temptations of kink, it seemed. The circle batted around thoughts about the Bible. New lenses they had found to read it with. Room to respect its identity without contorting it…

VIDEO: “First-Generation, Indian-American Muslim Kid” Makes Fun of the President. Onstage.

By Sunnivie Brydum

…do not see Steve Bannon. I do not see Steve Bannon. Not see Steve Bannon. NAZI Steve Bannon. NAZI Steve Bannon.” Minhaj was unapologetic as he ripped into other administration officials who refused to attend the annual event, speculating on why several key White House players weren’t willing to be in the same room as the journalists who report on them: “Mike Pence wanted to be here tonight, but his wife wouldn’t let him because apparently one of y…