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An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men

By Eric C. Miller

…ognize their right to an opinion and their right to express it. But in the new tolerance, the new kind of value that’s been accepted, you discriminate against people, but you tolerate all views. So that you tolerate same-sex marriage as well as traditional marriage, you tolerate all the views, but now you will discriminate, for example, against those who hold traditional views by calling them bigots and intolerant and rejecting them and vilifying…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…e a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many. Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the turning point? I make the case that one important turning point—among a se…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…tic process. When I went into the voting booth as a single-issue voter, I knew my mission was to vote anti-abortion down the ballot—from president to school board. This meant I didn’t have to engage with any of the other issues facing my country and my community during any given election. I could shut my brain off and go to sleep at night without worrying about immigration policies, funding for child cares, or new initiatives for stem cell researc…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…ence,” isn’t modeled on ancient traditions. It is a descendant of the East-Central European nationalist ideas and movements from the last two centuries. Indeed, under these conditions, during World War II, the Hungarian regime, in a matter of months, delivered nearly 450,000 Jewish Hungarians to Auschwitz, more than half of the Hungarian Jewish population. When amoral Donald Trump unwittingly deployed his various uses of the term human dignity in…

Are American Christians “Persecuted”?

By Eric C. Miller

…since persecution is a potent rhetorical resource, and since it is also a central theme of the Christian tradition, Christian complaints about systematic marginalization tend to blend quite seamlessly into a broader narrative of persecution. As a practical matter, I’m not sure where one ends and the other begins. For Dreher, then, the explicit disavowal of the word “persecution” may be insufficient to overcome the impression of it in his writing,…

God Makes an Independent Film

By Eric Zassenhaus

…levision stations; they will be the first to colonize another planet. Each new revelation is greeted with enthusiastic shouts and frenzied applause. Throughout it all, Jacobs’ camera captures, with stark verité detachment, the trials of the small community making the film, and dwells on the character of its leader. Who is Pastor Richard Gazowsky? Is he a megalomaniacal swindler or a divinely inspired visionary? Or is he “a sweet man… very naive an…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…ar politicians (including Governor McCrory) look nothing like the sensible Republicans of the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s population will create a more robust de…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…ully admonished by respected elders of the very liberal church I served in New York that it was confusing and potentially hurtful to our visitors to include old gospel hymns expressing washed-in-the-blood theology during regular worship services (as I was wont to do). If hymns like that were going to show up in our services, there needed to be a clear explanation that no one there still actually clung to such barbarously bad theology. In view of t…

Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation

By Robert P. Jones

…of Christianity. Evangelical leaders are only beginning to understand this new dynamic and to account for the damage that has been done to the image of Christianity by the politics of division that has been practiced by the Christian Right over the last few decades. In his recent book, Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, David Kinnaman, the young president of the Barna Group, found that “Christianity has an image p…

Flouting SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Advocates “Give The Game Away”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hat essentially asks the court to either recognize or deny the plaintiff’s central identity, the misgendering in Liberty Counsel and NOM’s briefs are crucial. And, as Stern rightly points out, that act lays bare the animus behind NOM and Liberty Counsel’s long-standing opposition to trans equality (emphasis mine): The briefs reject the very validity of Grimm’s identity in a manner that is both offensive and petty. Indeed, these organizations are s…