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Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…ve Christian lying is complicated by other developments such as the asymmetrical polarization in US politics today, as well as the development of extensive propaganda organs among US conservatives. Is Sarah Sanders lying? My sense is that she self-consciously deploys word play and harmonizes facts in a manner reminiscent of fundamentalist creation scientists. She does so in a manner that will be faithfully upheld and reported by the alternate info…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…rnia governor won their loyalty by talking about the Christian roots of American freedom and connecting American destiny to the old belief, dating back to the 17th-century Puritans who settled New England, that America was God’s great “city upon a hill.” Reagan opposed abortion, promised to fight moral decay in American culture, and assured Falwell and the rising Religious Right that he would keep the federal government from intruding on the lives…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…in oblivious to? Could the effects of that trauma have been lessened? Even today it is only a handful of what sociologist Arlene Stein calls ‘memory-workers’ who are using the internet in defining 1984 as a trauma. These memory-workers have expanded numerically and are joined by other Sikhs reacting to the Wisconsin trauma swiftly. The internet has acquired therapeutic value even as a trauma unfolds. Sikhs are writing about their experiences of be…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…r animals.” There are many extraordinarily intelligent Christians who have freely admitted that evolution poses challenges to Christian theology and have freely chosen to not ignore them or sweep them under the rug. They have a deep knowledge of Christian history and theology as well as evolutionary theory. And they have reconciled the two and find joy living and working on the boundary between them. These people are not uncommon. Many of them are…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…le respond to this appeal, saying, “Things are a lot better for gay people today than they were several years (or decades) ago. In time, our society (or churches) will come around on this issue.” To these friends and others, I must say, “It’s time.” For Lucas, Brown, Clementi, Walsh, and Chase the time is up. For these teens and the myriad other bisexual, transgender, lesbian and gay youth lost to suicide, the waiting game hasn’t worked so well. A…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…growing fears of annihilation, President Eisenhower in 1953 began heavily promoting the “Atoms for Peace” concept through which the lethal nuclear fission process might be seen as but another mainstay of American prosperity, powering our homes and factories with new supplies of electric power that would be “too cheap to meter.” In 1957 Walt Disney even released a movie titled Our Friend, the Atom. Looking back now, it’s quite easy to see why the…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…of the place of modern Muslim minorities has to take account of this historical background, because it provides the context for perspectives that are sometimes wrongly presented as timeless. But the questions relevant to the lives of ordinary Western Muslims today do not concern their superiority or inferiority in relation to other faiths—still less, the management of a medieval empire. The fundamental challenge is the same one that everyone els…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…in History, argues that, when we apply the most rigorous standard of historical scholarship to allegations of Satanic evil conspiracies and rituals like that of the “black mass,” we find that “no evidence has ever been found to verify the atrocities as historical events” (212). Moreover, Frankfurter writes that when we critically examine perceptions of these “evil rites” in our modern day, we find that they’re the products of an age-old attributi…

When Welcoming the Stranger Was Not Just a Religious Value

By Melissa Borja

…rously to help alleviate this suffering.” The event celebrated not only American compassion, but also a particular vision of benevolent pluralism in a unified, tri-faith America. Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and one of the Catholic representatives at the event, praised the fact that “so many different religious groups, often in conflict in the past, stand together as brothers and sisters” and were working “to…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…e politics that has shaped many of us makes what we say very irrelevant to today’s issues. I think a good part of the church is in denial as to how this country has really changed. I never heard of this Dearborn Awakening event that happened until I read your piece today, but I want to offer an apology for this speaker that lied and confused people. I offer this as a Christian and student of the Word that is called by God to obey and not simply kn…