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“Muscular Christianity” Not to Blame For Driscoll: A Response

By Jessica Johnson

…r publicized by Driscoll. The courage of ex-elders to step forward, challenge authority, and openly admit they sinned and were sinned against is humbling. While I may not see eye to eye with them on some political issues deemed those of the ‘culture wars,’ I am glad to have had the chance to look them in the eye as they spoke the gospel, perhaps in ways they did not realize at the time. The misogynistic and fearful broader culture is a detriment w…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…ed out the person who wants to just get in and bang the drum. Also, if you look at our accreditation process, it’s a bit like a trade association. Let’s say if someone starts getting a bit Islamophobic, we can tell them they have the freedom to say what they want but we won’t post them on the website. Evans: And we’re very big on feedback. Jones: When we came up with our first set of Sunday Assembly guidelines, some people felt it looked a bit bu…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…eal? In the case of Osteen, for all his likability, positive message, good looks, and 15 bestselling books, perhaps the suspicion Americans harbor toward public religious figures since the televangelist scandals of the 1980s make him seem just questionable enough. Or, as Tribble put it, “I also think it’s telling that so many people believed the hoax. Do you think people would believe Billy Graham rejected Christianity? No, because he’s a man we a…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…visible. It’s taken me those two decades to tell myself that I did nothing wrong. And I hope it doesn’t take another two to believe it fully. I catch myself staring at old high school pictures because I need to remember what I actually looked like. I need to remind myself that I was a child, I felt like a child, and I looked like a child. And I need to tell the girl in these pictures that I see her even if nobody else around her did. At fourteen,…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…orts of conspiracy-laden social media postings that I see when I choose to look deep into the heart of Trumpland provide an unscientific but telling sampling of how the hard-core base sees the world. This is the world of white cultural nationalism, and where white Christian America hasn’t yet read the news that it is going to die. Ralph Reed and Eric Metaxas look to a larger world and hunger for intellectual validation, but ultimately they reinfor…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…r face-to-face identification. What can you do when you encounter them but look away or stare?—neither of which is really polite if you think about it. People are intimidated. But let us not excuse them their intimidation, because there is also an insidious status of Islam-hating these days—I do not wish to make the mistake of identifying it as “Islamophobia.” To use the suffix “-phobia” puts all the blame on Muslims for igniting fear, and ignores…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…tarian operations in Uganda were already worth more than $2bn annually – a number which has doubtless grown – and they compete aggressively with secular NGOs to secure US government grants…. Evangelical groups’ close ties to Ugandan government leaders have cemented their influence in my country. Charismatic humanitarian pastors like Rick Warren and evangelical NGOs such as World Vision are increasingly invited to the official forums that help to s…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ry like a toddler handed the wrong sweater in the morning. How could I not look? Personally, as I scrolled through the blog, I felt voyeuristic, perplexed, and, honestly, very sad. The sniffles and tears in the photos reminded me too much of my own child. How would I feel if her sadness and pain were encapsulated in tweets and an interview on Good Morning America? The issues of children’s agency, or lack thereof, in the digital age are ethically f…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…’s not the interesting thing. The process I think of taking that apart and looking at all these stories becomes so much more important, and part of our role as researchers is to say “look, that’s asking the wrong question, that’s not important, it doesn’t matter if Adam and Eve actually existed, there’s so much more to the story than just whether these two naked people were in the Garden. It’s just a fascinating story. I tell my students that all…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…heory. You also see it, for instance, in history of science, if you take a look at the way that Charles Darwin represents evolution in his notebooks. And then maybe 30 or 40 years later, you have this representation by Ernst Haeckel: he draws evolution like a tree that grows up in the air, and you have man at the top of the tree. So it’s this teleological process, instead of this natural thing. There are lots of difficulties with understanding evo…