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Evangelicals Struggle With the Role of Churches in Society

By Omri Elisha

…s of compassion and justice but, for a variety of reasons, find it hard to promote and implement them. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? There’s a lot of a disagreement and uncertainty among evangelicals about the social role of the church. Are churches primarily supposed to strengthen believers and attract converts, or seek to improve and reform society? Do Christians have an obligation to combat the structures of poverty a…

D’Souza: ‘Traditional Values’ for You, Freedom to Follow my Heart for Me

By Peter Montgomery

…we feel about someone else. At the same time, Christianity emphasized that free choice should also be binding choice. As we have consented to marry without coercion, we should live up to our vows and preserve marriage as a lifelong commitment.” (page 60) “Christianity did not contest patriarchy, but it elevated the status of women within it. The Christian prohibition on adultery—a sin viewed as equally serious for men and women—placed a moral leas…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…ir if you can’t make it to Dallas, you can watch online starting at 7 p.m. Central. But if your kids really like candy, you can comfort yourself with the approach to Halloween taken by Mars Hill church, the authoritarian megachurch phenomenon associated with hipster homophobe Mark Driscoll that has spawned survivors’ blogs. In an article promoted by the church’s Resurgence ministry, Pastor Justin Holcomb says Halloween’s pagan origins have basical…

Yoga Guru or CEO? Saving the Brand When Scandal Strikes

By Andrea R. Jain

…riend violated federal regulations regarding employee benefits by suddenly freezing Anusara, Inc.’s pension fund; and finally, Friend put his employees at legal risk by arranging for them to accept packages of marijuana for his personal use. In the last few months, four of Anusara’s most senior teachers—Christina Sell, Darren Rhodes, Elena Brower, and Amy Ippoliti—resigned one by one, citing “professional differences.” On February 12, two addition…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…erarchical since each Catholic diocese operates independently. “There’s no central repository, even in the Vatican… where you can go and find a list of all the Catholic Church abuse files from around the world,” Clark said. “With the Mormon Church, everything that happens goes to Salt Lake.” The problem is those documents aren’t discoverable in court. The LDS Church maintains it does not keep records of child abuse. Plaintiff attorneys have been u…

Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

…n leaders to take action against the big book of law and lore that is both central to rabbinic Judaism and, according to Gregory, potentially offensive to all of Christendom. A group of French rabbis appeared in the book’s defense. The prosecutor, Nicholas Donin, who’d converted from Judaism to Christianity, had traveled to Rome in order to convince the Pope of the Talmud’s danger, with motives that remain unclear. Christian university scholars ma…

Preachers’ Daughters Episode 4: Victoria Apologizes, Olivia is Embarrassed, and Taylor Dances Around in Silly Underpants

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…y, but evidently a lot of other people on Twitter) tune in at 10 Eastern/9 Central to watch episode 4 of Preachers’ Daughters on Lifetime. Didn’t catch it? Here’s what you missed. Last week, 16-year-old Kolby Koloff had broken off her relationship with Micah, amid her confusion over whether she was ready to date. This week’s episode begins with Kolby, immediately post-breakup, going to talk to her mother. It’s here that we start to see a more com…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

…is a concerted effort to dismantle our First Amendment rights and redefine freedom. As a result, elected leaders across the nation are realizing the importance of preserving religious freedom and are being proactive through legislative process.” The CPCF, which represents more than 60 members of Congress, claims to be “[a]larmed by the concerted effort to remove God from every vestige of government and to silence the voice of millions” and therefo…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…e to write in a very different genre: memoir. Why? Interfaith work gives a central place to the idea of exchanging stories to create more understanding and enrich the quality of the conversations that take place between people in various communities. As I began to speak about and do work related to the intersection of atheist identity and interfaith dialogue, I drew a lot on my personal stories and began to recognize how my experiences shaped my c…

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

By Jay Michaelson

…sts poorly with moderates, in favor of values like fairness, equality, and freedom. There is some overlap—after all, the Constitutional clause in question is about Equal Protection—but the deeper questions, we know, are not constitutional but religious: the fundamental dignity of each person; the relationship of tradition to science, conscience, and change; the meaning of religion itself. So is all of this public rhetoric hypocrisy? Some, but not…