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Nikki Haley: Churches Should Take Over Universal Pre-K Education

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…or not South Carolina should implement a universal pre-K program for four-year-olds in the state. Haley emphasized that the state can’t afford such a program right now and if elected she would look to faith-based organizations to take over that responsibility. “What I will do is get a huge faith-based coalition together from all over the state and develop a community project, which is preschool programs, afterschool programs, job shadowing, mento…

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…destructive way of petty tyrants, moral vacuums, and especially awful two-year-olds throwing a tantrum….And yes, you can quote me.” LP in Houston wanted to “figure out what Trump voters see,” but also hoped Trump might say something to “destroy his campaign.” I told her I wasn’t sure there was anything he could say to accomplish that, given the things he’s already said (she hoped maybe he’d lose younger, undecided voters by saying he’d “jack up s…

RDBook: Christian Culture Clash

By Krista Kapralos

…iberal churches declining? Liberal churches, more or less, are for post-60-year-olds. What I’d say to liberal churches is that it’s not a bad thing to have a mature congregation, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re actually doing something that you’re not. They also have to find a positive message. Liberals are good at saying, “We’re not fundamentalist, we’re not sexist, we’re not homophobes, we’re not warmongers, we’re not narrow-mi…

Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally

By Hussein Rashid

…se; they just continued screeching their ugly invective while staring at 4-year-olds walking with their parents. People like that are so overflowing with hatred and resentments that the place where their humanity — their soul — is supposed to be has been drowned. There is no excuse for this behavior. It is pure, unbridled bigotry. There is no way to explain it away, and muddying the waters by saying there was anti-Semitic speaker there does not…

Baptist Professors Attack McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity

By Jonathan L. Walton

…amounted to four Christian apologists teeing off on the book like six-year olds with an oversized bat. I’ll be honest and admit that I have not read McLaren’s book. So this is neither a review nor judgment, thumbs up or thumbs down. But listening to these Southern Baptist seminary professors toss out such words as “orthodoxy,” (good thing) “heresy,” (bad thing) and “apostasy” (stop, drop and roll!) with no seeming sense of intellectual irony or ep…

Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation

By Robert P. Jones

…that “Christianity has an image problem” among America’s youth (16– to 29-year-olds). Kinnaman found that among young “outsiders” to Christianity, “the three most common perceptions of present-day Christianity were anti-homosexual [sic] (91 percent), judgmental (87 percent), and hypocritical (85 percent].” Kinnaman also found that even among young churchgoers, four out of five “say that Christianity is anti-homosexual [sic]; half describe it as j…

‘Slender Man’ Murder Attempt Wasn’t Media or Madness

By Joseph Laycock

…ldren’s ability to distinguish reality from make-believe, suggests that 12-year-olds have the same grasp on reality as adults. Kenneth Lanning, a retired FBI agent who investigated rumors of Satanic Ritual Abuse in 1992, explained that media is not the key factor and that the attack may have occurred in a moment of limited inhibition. An attorney for one of the girls has argued that his client is mentally ill and is seeking a mental evaluation. Ho…

Abstinence-Only Education Might Work?

By Lauri Lebo

…tudies have clearly determined that the provision of information about condoms and contraception does not increase sexual activity among teens or lower the age of sexual initiation. I think pretty much everyone agrees that it’s in the best interest of 12- and 13-year-olds for them not to be sexually active. But the results from this one study, of course, need to be looked at carefully in a broader context. Also, any such program taught in public s…

Roman Polanski, Gays, and the Bible

By Daniel Schultz

…That broke the social contract that says middle-aged men ought not rape 13-year-olds, first of all. But it also broke the covenant of Genesis, of Moses and Jesus, who understood that sexual relationships are just that: relationships meant to bind people to one another. Even consensual sexual encounters for the sake of simple gratification cannot hope to meet this standard, let alone situations like Polanski’s. That’s a high bar. As many as 95% of…

AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference

By Jeanne Carstensen

…in the country.) Younger women are especially vulnerable. Among 20- to 24-year-olds nationwide, 21 percent of women are positive compared to 5 percent of men. Women 25 to 29 are more than twice as likely to be positive as men in the same age group. Dr. Beverley Haddad has been on the frontlines of the AIDS epidemic in her native South Africa since the late ’90s and knows the realities behind these grim statistics firsthand. A development expert w…