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Gingrich’s Faith Leaders “Not Aware” they’d been Enlisted in Campaign

By Sarah Posner

…id. “I haven’t even made up my mind who I’m going to vote for yet.” When I called Pastor Doug Maners, of Catalyst Community Church in Orlando, who was also listed on the January 28 announcement, he laughed, and said, “I don’t think so. If I am, I didn’t know it.” “I have not been involved at all,” said Maners. “I have some strong opinions, but most of the time I have to keep those to myself.” When I asked Pastor Amar Rambissoon of Deeper Life Asse…

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

By Mike Greer

…al commitment to LGBT inclusion? I’ve been at Crescent Hill seven years. I came about the time that folks from Burma began arriving in large numbers and uniting in membership with Crescent Hill, and much of my time in those early years was spent trying to figure out how in the world we might be able to be a unified body that includes people who don’t speak English, who have a completely foreign background and cultural experience. It took a lot of…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…ering a mixed and sometimes uneven set of messages, with one Church leader caricaturing feminists as showing “outright contempt” for home and family. The experience of being turned away from the Tabernacle, said Kate Kelly, “really encapsulated how we feel being excluded every single day. It embodied our daily, weekly, yearly struggle of not being equal in the church and being turned away from full experience and engagement in the gospel we love…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ormons the way the railroad and automobile once ended the faith’s geographical and cultural isolation in the American west. At the same time, some analysts suggest, congregational growth is also slowing—dramatically. But the prevailing sense of early 21st century LDS institutional life is that the best way 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 pol…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…al with what the old-school rhetoricians (of whom Tertullian was one, ironically) called “counter-factuals.” If your faith is intentionally and even proudly absurd, you don’t need to bother with facts. It is striking to note how far one stream of the Republican Party has moved from even a perfunctory concern with the facts. In Laderman’s view, such religious myths are singular; they constitute the thing everybody has to sign on to in order to be a…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e using the new media of the day (vernacular spiritual texts for common education and political broadsides for common expression) to “assert the rights of the laity to the intellectual, as to the material, goods of the institutional church.” For medieval rebels influenced by the teachings of John Wyclif, clerical ownership of extensive, untaxed monastic lands facilitated a shifting of the burden of public finance, particularly that required for un…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…perspective, it does not make sense to ordain more people to a closed clerical caste headed by the Bishop of Rome, however socially progressive he may be. Rather, beneath all of these movements for change has been the working assumption that a new participatory, democratic administrative model must evolve. Key to that model is a deeply diminished authority role for the pope and a much stronger emphasis on the pope’s function as a symbol of the uni…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…able, R.J. Rushdoony reveals a foundation of American History of philosophical and theological substance. This series extends through 1865, the year that marked the beginning of the secular attempts to rewrite history. There can be no understanding of American History without an understanding of the ideas which undergirded its founding and growth. In “Why History Matters,” for example, Barton says, “if you do not see the divine hand working behind…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…many 400,000); Gerbert’s French monastery owned less than 400. Many of the caliph’s books came from Baghdad, known for its House of Wisdom, where for 200 years works of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and medicine had been translated from Greek and Persian and Hindu and further developed by Islamic scholars under their caliph’s patronage. In the world Gerbert knew, Arabic was the language of science. During his lifetime, the first Arabic science…