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American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…sianic Judaism, or belief in Jesus as the Messiah. When in Jerusalem a few days later, I sought out Be’ad Chaim (the group’s rough translation of “pro-life”). I stopped by the nondescript office building of dentists, doctors, and lawyers, and rang the bell at the locked third floor office. No one answered. It did not appear to be doing a booming business, or any kind of business at all. Be’ad Chaim’s website has a section on “Abortion in Jewish Th…

Sarah Palin Favorites “Jesus Against Obama” Church Sign

By Lauri Lebo

…o even see if such a function was possible. I was traveling to Alaska that day…it was an obvious accidental ‘favoriting,’ but no one can mistake that Ann Coulter was obviously being tongue in cheek with that Tweet. Shall I correct this with whichever wonderful media outlet ran with this (an obviously bored reporter…since there must be nothing going on in the world today, like, um, ramifications of a shake up of power in the U.S. House of Represent…

American Family Association Targets Radio Hosts Over Association With Critic

By Warren Throckmorton

…Loeffler said he had no notice and was required to give an answer by the middle of next week. He added that he knew few specifics about the dispute and that he had not discussed the topic on his show. Friel and Loeffler are both slated to speak at Worldview Weekend events in 2011 and 2012. Until recently, they have hosted shows broadcast on the AFR. Friel’s show is called Wretched Radio and airs on Saturday evenings. Loeffler’s show, Steel on Stee…

Romney Stands Up to Bryan Fischer at Values Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…e the strength and longevity of anti-Mormon sentiment in the south. (On Monday, I’ll cover some of the history of organized anti-Mormonism with scholar and author Patrick Mason.) But today at the Values Voter Summit, Mitt Romney demonstrated that Mormons are capable of doing more than lowering our eyes and walking away. If we expect the GOP to confront anti-Mormon sentiment in its own ranks, Mormons need to confront people who regard us as liars a…

Condoms and Common Sense

By Frances Kissling

…he same point.” The reference to “male prostitutes” threw people off for a day. Liberals complained that the exception was too narrow and negatively focused on perhaps the most unsympathetic and marginal category of those with AIDS. Conservatives breathed a sigh of relief that it was very narrow and seemed to implicitly exclude married couples. The Vatican responded, not by backtracking, but by expanding the “exceptions.” Federico Lombardi, the Je…

“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…gether for their own week-long camp, called King’s Kids. That was the only week during the summer where you might see a kid wearing a t-shirt that said “Evolution: The Lie,” or hear language of getting saved. One year the camp directors gave everyone, including summer staff, WWJD bracelets in a cheerful rainbow pattern. A fellow staff member, coming back from his day off and seeing everyone in their new bracelets, was puzzled. “Why are all the Kin…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…Your Spouse, in which they challenge husbands and wives to have sex every day for a week straight. They are the latest in a line of pastors—Mark Driscoll perhaps the most well-known among them—who claim that society has taken sex too far, and that the church hasn’t taken it far enough; that culture has hijacked sex, and that God has been left out of the discussion for too long. By openly promoting sex—among married heterosexual couples—they are t…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…conference uninvited and started a Twitter beef, which I wrote about last week. Then he posted an article alleging that pacifist Christians made Jesus out to be a “pansy” and that said Christians are probably going to hell. He’s aiming for the controversy trifecta at them moment by challenging MacArthur to a debate. As I pointed out last week, and as Jonathan Merritt has articulated beautifully over at Religion News Service, these back-to-back c…

Michael Vick Walks on Water: Updated

By Nicole Greenfield

…success can, and indeed already has, played. As the nation witnessed on Monday Night Football last week, Vick’s performance on the field is an integral part, if not the integral part, of the redemption story. Through his awe-inspiring achievements, the naturally talented athlete has demonstrated his personal rehabilitation. While his embrace of Christianity and his relationship with Tony Dungy (along with his apologies and remorsefulness and dedic…

A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…y its association with divisive politics under President Trump. It runs Monday and Tuesday. Well, I don’t know why they would be afraid of being associated with Trump and all he stands for, other than that 81% of white evangelicals voted for the dude, or 61% percent of them still support him (admittedly down from 78% two months into his problematic spell in the nation’s capital), or that 37% of them said they were more likely to vote for the loath…