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Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…nt Hill was the spiritual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a c…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…behind the scenes with what’s going on in history, history will be an incomprehensible enigma.” He then describes contemporary secular history as an intentional effort by the likes of Robert Ingersoll (no known relation), the American Liberal Union, and professional historians such as Charles and Mary Beard, to re-write American history without God. For Rushdoony, Barton, and apparently Huckabee, history is not the academic discipline most of us h…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…and doctrinal issues do not evaporate just because the pope does not wear Prada. Surely some of the “credit” for this PR blitz goes to former Fox News and Time writer, Opus Dei member and Midwestern Catholic, Greg Burke. He became senior communications advisor to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State in June 2012, well before the new pope took over. Mr. Burke is commonly associated with moving the papacy toward a more hip, social-media savvy approac…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…y to deal with such anxieties is to push through them, and that the best expression of the faith is the projection of a sense of assurance as polished and attractive as the storefronts at City Creek Mall. That’s how most Mormons plan to walk through what may very well be a season of public relations nightmares, as Romney’s GOP candidacy brings even greater scrutiny to sensitive issues like historical racism, gay Mormon suicides, and unwelcome post…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…News, Ben Shapiro, and Dan Bongino influence groups around the world that spread Facebook propaganda. All of these have directed attention to Canada and fundraised for the occupation of the city. Franklin Graham, a J6 defender, posted a supportive Instagram video, tagged with “I’d like you to meet who Prime Minister @JustinPJTrudeau called the ‘fringe minority.’ Tell me what you think of this video.” It features the Jericho March, among others, an…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…escription of circadian perception of time as message, based on rhythms of prayer. Like prophets, a poet’s use of language can subvert popular assumptions, reified or dead assumptions. Influenced by Rilke, Hunter convenes American idioms into dense, precise, equivocations. One of Hunter’s most mystical Dead songs is “Attics of my Life”—an expression of apophatic mysticism (knowing by not-knowing/God as darkness). Other songs, such as “Candyman,” a…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…akes the bus because he got tired of the random stops and numerous traffic tickets he would get each month due to racial profiling. At 30 years old, he says he has been stopped or arrested for unjust cause more than 150 times. “If you’re a person of color in Missouri, it’s just part of the normal experience. You go five miles over the speed limit, you sit in jail for two weeks.” Masri, whose family is Palestinian and who spent some time living in…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…d in the background, and the subtle reminder that white supremacy killed a preacher and a prophet has me feeling the Spirit. Then 60,000 white people screamed at Bono’s pandering, “America! You are the Dream!” Meanwhile, I couldn’t stop wondering how many of them were updating their status to “MLK never blocked traffic!” while we marched for Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd. Four beers in, and Bono is giving my now drunken neighbors credit for being…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d by people who share my view, towards others who don’t, has also been inappropriate and wrong. “I think we just, frankly, in terms of this discussion, could do with being a bit less screechy at each other.” Indonesia: More reporting on police adopting anti-LGBT tactics of Islamist group The Independent is the latest outlet to report on the deteriorating treatment of LGBT people in Indonesia: Indonesia’s Islamists have long sought to criminalise g…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…gy added to the mix), now has a thirty-year record to run on. And it’s not pretty. The imprudent mix of massive tax cuts and aggressive military interventions created the ballooning deficit and the spiraling sea of debt we’re drowning in today. If tax cuts create jobs, then how has unemployment remained so distressingly high? And why does the Federal Reserve pay so much attention to interest rates and so little to unemployment these days? Rather t…