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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…

Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?

By M. Sophia Newman

…tly blamed Pandey for her own rape, a sentiment with which some government officials agreed. Twenty-five centuries earlier, in a scripture called the Kakacupama Sutta, the Buddha had also advised passivity: “Even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered, even at that, would not be doing my bidding.” Centuries later, the renowned Tibetan master Shantideva advised grat…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…op in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.” Citing polling data, Evans notes that the problem is one of substance rather than style: “young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old-fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.” In Evans’ view, millennials want a church that’s more prog…

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…

“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…

Yes, Virginia, There Were Cannibals

By Paul Harvey

…human flesh: Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the first physical evidence of cannibalism among the desperate population, corroborating written accounts left behind by witnesses. Cut marks on the skull and skeleton of a 14-year-old girl show that her flesh and brain were removed, presumably to be eaten by the starving colonists during the harsh winter of 1609. The remains were excavated by ar…

Driscoll Makes Plagiarism Complaint Disappear

By Evan Derkacz

…oll assembled by talk show host Janet Mefferd have disappeared from her website without explanation. Just like that. For now, anyway. This comes just a day after RD published Eric Miller’s piece on the ways that terms like “Civility,” “Unity,” and “Tolerance” are manipulated in order to draw attention away from indiscretions, injustice, and other transgressions. In fact Driscoll himself, with his meandering attempt to redefine Tolerance, makes a…

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

By Becky Garrison

…w with him on November 21, 2013, the documentation disappeared from her website though she remained unapologetic about the substance of her allegations. Initially, MHC accused a “research assistant” with the Docent Group of sending unsourced research notes to Driscoll that made their way into the Trial book. Further analysis revealed that Driscoll was provided with research notes sourced according to industry standards which he appears to have ign…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…industry. Season 2 reaffirms the Bluebird’s church-like status: it is the site for Scarlett’s album debut after she nobly refused to let record executives craft a false, PR glamorous image for her. True to her rootsy musical persona, Scarlett appears triumphantly at the Bluebird after having managed to hold tight to her artistic virtue, in a white dress and scarce makeup, and sounding an awful lot like Iris DeMent. Gunnar, too, engages in authent…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…arr says that internet journalism is maturing—and that the technology that sites are built on, and that reporters use to do their work, is not the ‘wingman,’ as he puts it, but The Man. While we’d rather see technology as a multi-armed goddess, we’re with Carr otherwise. Packer’s objections are standard issue: there’s no quality control in new media, no money to pay reporters. And you can practically hear the shudder behind the word “blogger,” as…