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Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge

By Anthea Butler

…ssing a student’s educational details in the entire General Seminary email list. As a result of a limited response to these concerns voiced in a letter to GTS’ Board of Trustees and the Dean, the faculty members in question decided to stop working until they could meet with the board. In a letter dated September 25, 2014, the eight professors said that they would “discontinue teaching and performing all other academic and administrative obligation…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…dexed by the time-lapse close ups of violence in the cage. The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a “sport” through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness”; the “strength to stand up to evil, wickedness, and unrighteousness”; a “warrior ethos”; and, the ability to “be prepared in advance” for a “battle out there” against an “enemy” that is “trying to seek and destroy us.” While listening to suc…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…astised by her teacher for saying, “Bless you.” (“Bless you” appeared on a list of words that were considered distracting or inappropriate for use in the classroom, alongside words like “boring” and “hang out.”) According to Turner, she was told that “Godly language” would not be tolerated in school and that her Constitutional rights didn’t apply in the classroom. When another student stepped in and told the teacher she couldn’t “trump God,” Turne…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…ntal principles of the Executive Order; Requires agencies to post online a list of entities that receive Federal financial assistance for the provision of social service programs; Clarifies the principle that organizations engaging in explicitly religious activity must perform these activities outside of and separately in time and location from programs supported with Federal financial assistance, and that participation in any explicit religious a…

Blame Muscular Christianity for Driscoll Fiasco

By Hollis Phelps

…the charges of plagiarism, to his gaming of the New York Times Bestseller List, to his reputation as a hyper-masculine misogynist and homophobe with an authoritarian leadership style. [T]he scheme itself is part of an overall ethos that seeks to proselytize “by every means available.” What’s important, in other words, is that people hear “about Jesus”—however that might happen. Thus it was not surprising when Driscoll announced this past weekend…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…o the public discourse via prominent public intellectuals, including journalist Peter Beinart, who led the way with his 2012 book The Crisis of Zionism, warning of drift away from and even hostility toward the establishment by young American Jews, and New York Times columnists Roger Cohen and Thomas Friedman, whose critiques are laced with laments over the decline, in Israel, of the liberal Zionism they grew up with and still cherish. Beinart now…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…on.” The median home value in the U.S. is $174,200. Not surprisingly, that list includes some of the nation’s most outspoken conservative bishops—and allies of the Republican Party—who seem to take the whole “prince of the church” thing more literally than some of their fellow prelates. Here’s a rundown: • New York Cardinal Timothy “Capitalism is King but you can get your birth control at 7-11” Dolan lives in a 15,000-square foot neo-Gothic mansio…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…ggressive marketing, Hippie Boy ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list for e-book nonfiction in 2012 and was subsequently acquired by Penguin, which released the book under its Berkley imprint earlier this year. I spoke to Ricks recently about the way religion functions in her memoir and how readers respond to her depiction of it. Hippie Boy has been used in high school curricula for troubled youth. How do they respond to the religious as…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…contentious, coming in at number one on The American Library Association’s list of “Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009.” The film series, the seventh of which was released last weekend, is the highest-grossing series of all time, surpassing both Star Wars and the James Bond films—all 22 of them. Harry Potter, the story goes, is a special young man and a talented wizard, who—with a lot of magic and the support of a strong network of friends…

Conservative Christianity’s “Come to Jesus” Moment in Wake of Elliot Rodger Shootings

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…arns in relation to evangelical abstinence materials, maintaining “essentialist notions of gender” that portray “masculinity as aggression, and sexual urges and femininity as passive submission,” ultimately leads to a loss of control in which “boys give in to their urge to rape and girls give in to their urge to submit to rape.” Likewise, in PUA culture, sex is framed as something to which men are entitled—and that entitlement is clearly evident i…