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Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…siveness. Unfortunately, those who contributed to the podcast failed to model self-reflection and wisdom in the name of truth and repentance, and those who could have done so were glaringly absent or were represented by heavily curated audio clips or name-drops. The Gospel Coalition and Christianity Today both played vital roles in providing Driscoll the platform, celebrity, and legitimacy necessary to continually apologize before moving on to cre…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e death penalty and flogging for offences relating to consensual same-sex relations between adults’ on the one hand, and making illegal torture due to sexual orientation with some reservations on the other, raise serious concerns regarding Iran’s will to implement the recommendations,” she added. “Unfortunately, no mechanisms are in place to monitor the implementation of this decision.” Justice for Iran Executive Director Shadi Sadr said, “We call…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…tt, was winning on the issue of repealing the ACA: …if the goal was to win election after election, and virtually wipe out the Democratic Party across much of the country, while never actually engaging with the tough questions of health care, then it succeeded beautifully. But there’s a reason the GOP is now stuck on health care that goes even beyond the fact that the party doesn’t really have any policy ideas beyond a few talking points. It’s bec…

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e, an offshoot of the American Center for Law and Justice—both founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. The Anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom has set up shop outside the US as well, dubbing its coordinating international body Alliance Defending Freedom International. The Polish Ordo Iuris, a right-wing catholic organization which leads a crusade against abortion, is likewise well connected on an international level with German pundit Birg…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…heir Christmas display in Florida. It featured a “Biblical image” of an angel falling into hell with the slogan “Happy Holidays from the Satanic Temple.” Temple spokesperson John Porgal explained he would prefer that no holiday displays were present at the capital. Meanwhile, Jex Blackmore and her group erected their “Snaketivity scene” on the grounds of the Michigan capital. The display featured a serpent and the slogan, “The greatest gift is kno…

A Scholar Responds: Scripture as a Weapon

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cripture. As is especially clear in Protestant forms of Christianity, the relationship between tradition and scripture is a layered and contentious one. But when push comes to shove, scripture trumps tradition. So for all the obvious importance of deep cultural myths like the wild west, the sheriff as lone justice, and the like, there is also a crucial democratic scripture repeated almost like a mantra in debates about guns and gun control: it is…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…lic roles, unilaterally canceled the performance via a pedantic email. Seidel tells the story of the drag show cancelation at West Texas A&M (clip=5.5 minutes): Much of the moralizing communique was couched in a faux-feminist argument that drag shows “denigrate and demean women,” but Wendler also cited his personal faith, basing part of his reasoning on the notion that “every human being is created in the image of God.” He even admitted that he wa…

God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

By Anthony B. Pinn

…the highlighting of the death of Jesus the Christ as clear markers of the relationship between suffering and spiritual renewal has produced this knee-jerk reaction to tragedy. I understand the desire for meaning; the yearning for purpose even in the most horrific of events. Humans by their very nature seek connections, push for meaning, but this turn to a cosmic force—a tendency to await a “word from the Lord”—clouds our ability to fully grasp the…

Mumbai, Five Months After: Searching for a Coherent Stance on Religious Violence

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

…lence in the name of Islam—have not had any great trouble seeing the parallel between 9/11 and the Mumbai massacres. And even if they have not always been explicit about it, their responses to both have been roughly similar. The liberal Left is politically lukewarm about the very idea of nation-states, and especially about their predilection for hegemonic narratives. While often suspicious of the market, the Left is also convinced that the State,…

Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest

By Leah Pannell

…g to bow to them, instead creating a new holy space where the oppressed go free. What better moment to consider our place as faithful Christians than during this season of Advent? In a time when American Christianity has perhaps sold its soul for 30 pieces of silver, taking refuge in the security of a violent empire, we would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a b…