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SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…of God. I believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the great news that any sinner who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved.” A pastor who instructs a wife to submit to her abusive husband—as Patterson did—is therefore not truly following complementarian theology. Any abuse justified by complementarianism, in Mohler’s eyes, is not true complementarianism and can therefore be discounted. As Donnelly says, “The foundational belief of wo…

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

By Anne Linstatter

…id to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any connection between all-male power and the sexual abuse of women and children. “This is a pivotal moment in American Protestantism,” writes Diana Butler Bass in an opinion piece on the CNN website, pointing to the “rare move” when “more than 600 leaders in the United Methodist Church filed a strongly-worded formal complaint against Attorney General…

Will Gay Marriage Split the Church? Yep.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, who leads an ad hoc panel of U.S. Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. Both wring their hands over the coming split between the churches like it’s something that’s never, ever, in the history of the church happened. In their hysteria over two people of the same gender falling in love, both men conveniently forget church history. Churches have been pitt…

Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…ing to sway them one way or the other, since they were likely Paul voters anyway. And as a Louisville reader at Talking Points Memo writes in, Conway faced a barrage of oppositional advertising which probably had more of an impact on his declining poll numbers than Aqua Buddha since, of course, most people aren’t analyzing it as closely as pundits and political writers do. But the question remains — as it has since around 2006, when the Democrats…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…spel over many decades.” Dever recently told Mahaney’s new congregation in Louisville, Kentucky that they should “thank God for [Mahaney]” and that being taught by him is a “privilege” that members “don’t fully grasp.” This stance reflects not only the lengthy friendships and ministry ties with Mahaney pointedly boasted by the authors of both statements, but also by concerns for evangelical reputation and organizational integrity. Strikingly, both…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…fare. In our own time, megachurches like the Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, have mastered digital technology, reaching churchgoers via social media, livestreaming, and podcasts. The internet revolution has taken hold on a smaller scale, as well. Idris Abdul-Zahir, an imam at the Masjidullah mosque in Philadelphia, began livestreaming Friday prayer services last…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…). Only two children survived. 1800s • November 2, 1853, Louisville, Kentucky. A student, Matthew Ward, bought a self-cocking pistol in the morning, went to school and killed Schoolmaster Mr. Butler for excessively punishing his brother the day before. Even though he shot the Schoolmaster point blank in front of his classmates, he was acquitted. An April 30, 1866 editorial in the New York Times argued against students carrying pistols, citing “…pi…

Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

By Daniel Schultz

…spite of clear evidence from him of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, and Islamaphobia. This was so blatant that many of his own party’s leaders could not endorse him. Many who voted for him knew this, and yet their fears about what is happening in their lives overrode their distaste for his bombast. In their search for a leader not connected to the power base of a government that has been perceived as corrupt, inefficient, and out of tou…

Christian Astronomer Sues University over Creationist Belief

By Lauri Lebo

…S. Senior District Judge Karl S. Forester of the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that Gaskell has a right for his allegations to be heard in court. From an article last week in the Louisville Courier-Journal: “The record contains substantial evidence that Gaskell was a leading candidate for the position until the issue of his religion or his scientific position became an issue,” Forester wrote late last month in rejecting the university’s motio…

In Which I Actually Defend Joel Osteen

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. Again, I would just reiterate what I said, I’m not after—I’m not mad at anybody. I don’t dislike anybody. But, you know, you know, respecting my faith and believing, you know, in—in what the scripture says, that’s the best way I can interpret it. But, it was the revelation that Osteen, while condemning homosexuality as a sin and refusing to perform same-sex marriages himself, has attended some same-sex weddings for people who “were dear to us,”…