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Southern Baptist Pres Denounces Gay Bashing in Favor of Eternity in Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the sinners. Since Mohler, by his own rule, can’t bash gays and lesbians anymore he turns his ire on “liberal churches and denominations” who “accommodate themselves to the new moral reality.” In this one sentence, Mohler completely discounts the deep and painful experiences that each of these denominations has gone through over the years. They are not “accommodating” anyone. Instead, they have listened deeply and compassionately to their gay and…

Beyond Progressive Religion

By Ivan Petrella

…s best framework. In God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith will Change the World, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge open their book with a Bible study scene that one assumes is set in a part of the country known for its megachurches (Glendale, Arizona, perhaps; or Louisville, Kentucky); except its Shanghai. The ability to shape ways of thinking beyond our own borders is called “soft power” in foreign policy circles, and provides a viv…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

As a child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1970s a curious painting hung in my family’s den depicting thirteen men of varying shades of brown sitting around a long table partaking in a meal. In the middle was a brown-skinned man sitting stoically with a halo surrounding his perfectly round Afro. I know you’re thinking the very same thing I did when I was a kid: “You had a picture of Richard Pryor and his friends hanging up in your…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…ies at Boyce College, part of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He said evangelicals expect the candidates “to have the courage of their convictions to persuade people about what’s going on.” From the Hobby Lobby litigation to cases involving florists, bakers, and photographers refusing to provide services for same-sex ceremonies, the issue has been percolating in the evangelical community for years. In recent week…

Let Gay People Rehab Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…who agree with Mohler that marriage is “an institution central to human happiness and flourishing,” we want the ability to flourish together as married couples, and yes, even to raise children together. For Mohler, and others who believe as he does on the issue of marriage equality, to deny gays and lesbians that right, is to cruelly deprive an entire population of what is essential to “human happiness and flourishing.” It would seem to me that i…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…ver the objections of Harris and others, and SGM moved its headquarters to Louisville, Kentucky in April 2012. Since then, several churches have voted to leave SGM, including CLC and Sovereign Grace Church of Fairfax, the other church named in the lawsuit. The Lawsuit This rocky history is a fitting prelude to the controversies surrounding the ministry in recent years. Perhaps the biggest thorn in SGM’s side has been the spate of former members’ b…

The Only Thing Evangelicals Will Never Forgive Is Not Hating the “Other”

By Frank Schaeffer

…ds of times. “I can’t say this in public, but…” has been the start of so many emails from many evangelical and Roman Catholic and (to be truthful) several Orthodox leaders too, as well as ordinary folks living what amount to intellectual/spiritual double lives. Perhaps it’s because they are being presented with bad alternatives that they believe they must choose between: Frank, After leaving the strait jacket of evangelicalism, I can breathe… I wa…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…t XVI, Dr. R. Albert Mohler (president of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY—one of the world’s largest), and Barack Obama. Like it or not, since the 19th century, religion has lost most of its authority as the go-to place for our enduring questions, yearnings, stories and role models. Other stories, other myths, other people have become not only more appealing, but also better at helping us frame our abiding questions and experiences…

From Cairo to the Bible Belt: What US Christianity Must Face for Peace in the Middle East

By Anthea Butler

…ne could make a case that the Cairo speech could be made in Dallas, Texas; Louisville, Kentucky; or Liberty University with just a few modifications and replacing the Qur’anic verses for New Testament verses. We need a healthy discussion about religious freedom, extremism, and women’s rights in America. Too often Americans consider the radical and the fundamentalist to be overseas. We have had home-grown terrorists; remember, Timothy McVeigh or la…

Sarah Palin, God and State

By Daniel Schultz

…pass the constitutional sniff test. But therein lies the game. Palin and many of her like-minded friends would like you to believe that tolerating any form of separation between church and state—which is to say between secular government and a particular construal of God’s intentions—means that God (religious values, really) will be banned from the public square. And who but Sister Sarah can defend those values? So not to put too fine a point on i…