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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dissemination of homophobic posters “is apparently being coordinated by a number of neo-Nazi organisations.” Junkee also explains that the government’s decision to hold a mail survey, rather than a formal referendum at the ballot box, means that election laws don’t apply, and “there is no requirement for campaigners to authorize any material with a name or address. That means any individual or organization can anonymously create posters or advert…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…mepage was linked to a speech Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was giving in Nashville. Pompeo is an outspoken evangelical who has said in the past that world conflicts, especially in the Middle East, will continue until the Rapture. The Rapture is, according to many evangelicals, an apocalyptic event when Christians will suddenly disappear from earth as God ushers in the end of all things. Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused dip…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…bric of The Call in major cities including Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Nashville; and for the “Kill the Gays” legislation in Uganda. What justice is demanding Indeed, when Hamon and others use the language of military combat and preparations, readers may wonder whether he’s referring to spiritual warfare, some sort of physical confrontation, or both. Hamon writes, for example: “The goal is to have them taught, equipped and field trained to be…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…furrow their brows and wonder how a radicalized political movement has captured their parishioners, the real story is the more enduring influence of white evangelical theology and institutions themselves. Something is wrong at the root. When Southern Baptists gather in Nashville for their annual meeting later this month, this deeper history is unlikely to be on the agenda. Russell Moore’s private anguish revealed that white evangelicals voting fo…

Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e theory then becomes something we’re using to blind ourselves. The recent Nashville Statement seems to fit that definition of starting with a theory and not worrying about how it effects the targets of those words. What’s your opinion of this statement? If you’re going to make authoritative pronouncements on matters that tangibly impact the lives of human beings, you have the credibility and authority to do that only if you are paying deep and su…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…ibed as a fundamentalist or neo-Calvinist Presbyterian pastor, author of a number of books including A Christian Manifesto, and creator of the film series Whatever Happened to the Human Race. Schaeffer is widely credited with rousing the apolitical giant of fundamentalist Protestant voters to action against secular humanism—an opposing religion, in his own description, that could not be squared with a Christian worldview—and to an even greater deg…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it,” he told a crowd at a Nashville fundraising event in 2021. Meanwhile, Republicans have cynically used this act of political violence to flood their media systems with disinformation about an alleged surge in violent crime ahead of the midterms—a narrative based not on facts, but to rile up their base with racialized fear-mongering—and to blame the attack on Pelosi on “rising crime rates.” (It do…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…the formation of a campus “Sexual Identity Forum,” but Belmont College in Nashville has officially recognized a gay and lesbian student group. The Most Vexed Topic If homosexuality is “the most vexed topic” among religious people, to quote Gomes, then recent responses to homosexuality at Christian schools suggest real social change, as evangelical Christians try to reconcile their growing awareness of gay and lesbian lives with the rigid attitude…

Sinner, You Better Get Ready…

By Lauri Lebo

…From blues to bluegrass, it’s a music tradition steeped in faith and religion. Nobody better exemplified the gospel tradition and pretty mountain harmonies than the Louvin Brothers. I got to see Charlie Louvin perform in Nashville a couple years back in a bar packed with young 20-something hipsters, all of them in awe over seeing this gospel icon in person. Who says young kids today don’t appreciate great music? Video after the jump….

Gospel and Country Legend Charlie Louvin dies at 83

By Lauri Lebo

…arty Stuart and Elvis Costello, all of whom recorded with him. In 2001, the Louvin Brothers were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Paste Magazine has a great profile here. I got to see Charlie Louvin in 2006 in a little bar in Nashville. While his voice was a little shaky, the man could still harmonize beautifully. I knew at the time I was witnessing a piece of gospel and country-music history and with it, an important piece of America…