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The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…SBC, signers of the Danvers Statement include the Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, conservative Presbyterians, and men like John Piper, Wayne Grudem, and Mark Driscoll (the disgraced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

As in many other parts of the world, Canadian news is often filled with the latest updates on the quasi-criminal actions and clearly racist and sexist pronouncements of US politicians. In the past month, however, Canadians who follow the news have had to look their own racism, sexism, and criminality straight in the eye. In the space of two weeks in February 2018, two juries acquitted white men accused of murdering young Indigenous people, raisin…

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

By Jay Michaelson

…han the previous one, beginning with an image on the door of the gate of Jerusalem, to idols and imagery in a house of worship, to women weeping for the god Tammuz,* to men worshipping the sun within the Temple itself. This extended passage, with six mentions of toevah, links the term in every instance with avodah zara, or idolatry. In five instances, Ezekiel mentions toevah together with both idolatry and zimah or znut, “whoredom” (Ez. 16:22, 16:…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n for Marriage brought the bus tour to the U.S. with a press conference in New York City. HazteOir’s Ignacio Arsuaga and NOM’s Brian Brown sit together on the board of CitizenGo; Arsuaga helped launch Brown’s International Organization for the Family in December. The press release announcing the U.S. bus tour wrapped the project in rhetorical attacks that Pope Francis has made on “gender ideology”: The bus tour organizers echoed a sentiment repeat…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…rsity of South Alabama historian and author of Bill Bright and the Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America, told me recently: To me, it’s [Seven Mountains] just a catchy phrase that encapsulates what Bright and many other evangelical leaders were already doing — trying to increase Christian influence (they would probably use more militant phrases like “capture”) in the spheres of education, business, and governm…

Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?

By Robin Globus Veldman

…ssessed whether respondents believed the Bible “should be taken literally, word for word.” Consequently, the study did not assess how much of the indifference to taking action on climate change might derive from a host of other beliefs. Perhaps most important to consider is whether suspicion of scientists and scientific research may be spilling over from the creation-evolution debate (as Katharine Wilkinson found in her qualitative study of the ev…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…invoked a parliamentary maneuver that prevents it from moving forward. The New York Times’ Douglas Dalby explains: Under Northern Ireland’s complex power-sharing arrangements, any legislative amendment must command sufficient cross-community support. The D.U.P. used this so-called petition of concern mechanism to impose a veto. A petition of concern requires at least 60 percent of assembly members to vote for a motion, with at least 40 percent of…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…of “Bild,” Germany’s largest right-leaning tabloid, who was fired after a New York Times investigation found claims of sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual relationships in the work place, had already attacked the cartoon. In what can only be described as an attempt to channel Tucker Carlson’s rants over M&Ms’ clothing and Mr. Potato Head’s genitalia, Reichelt had called the cartoon “Zwangs-Maus” (coercion-mouse) in March, because the kids’…

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

By Jay Michaelson

…der me less effective as a translator of it. For a skeptical, intellectual New York Times reader, Atlas is the most effective translator I can imagine: he’s not just kosher, he’s glatt kosher. And, sure enough, he acknowledges several times in “Buddhists’ Delight” (I know from experience that titles are usually not written by journalists, and I’m going to hope he didn’t come up with that one), the anxieties and fears of his presumptive audience. Y…

Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God

By Anthea Butler

…ers in their home and satellite churches around the country and across the world. The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), on the other hand, has been able to operate largely out of the general public’s purview, save for the work of writers at Talk to Action chronicling the changes and escalations in this movement, whose roots are firmly within the boundaries of the historic Pentecostal movement. Two foundational NAR beliefs (spiritual warfare and dom…