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Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…f full equality between female and male or between master and slave (a Christian master could not have a Christian slave) were socially explosive. Thus it is not surprising, if also very saddening, to see how soon such visions of equality were de-radicalized back to Roman normalcy. In Colossians and Ephesians this de-radicalization is already fully evident. In regard to the anti-sexual dimension, I view Paul himself as a programmatic celibate. I s…

Rand Paul and the Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…esota. Paul cited libertarian icon Ayn Rand. But he drew on Christian Reconstructionist Gary North. He argued against centralized banking, explicitly not on the grounds that conservatives traditionally have (conspiratorially) but, instead, on the very grounds that North lays out in his book, Honest Money: Biblical Principles for Money and Banking. In that book, North explains his view that the cause of the international debt crisis of the 1980s wa…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…ews of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the difficult, yet enduring, hope of the Gospel….

Is it Fair to Question Rand Paul’s Religiosity?

By Sarah Posner

…fact Paul has effectively demanded that). It’s not unfair of Conway to question Paul’s mockery of religion — but the ad would have been more effective if it had juxtaposed Paul’s pronouncements on Christianity as a moral and legal guide with his NoZe days. UPDATE: Greg Sargent (to whom I mistakenly gave no credit for exploring the Aqua Buddha story) writes that the Conway campaign insists the ad doesn’t question Paul’s faith. It doesn’t question…

The Wrong Emperor: Why Ralph Reed’s New Pro-Trump Book Distorts the Bible to Cast the President as Tiberius

By Tony Keddie

…Roman citizenship would have been rare among the earliest followers of Christ; Paul probably was not a citizen himself (this detail appears in the romanticizing later narrative of Acts of the Apostles, but not in Paul’s own letters); and, the “emperor’s household” in Philippians was a reference to the slaves and freedmen serving in the imperial bureaucracy throughout the empire, not the emperor’s palace or family in Rome. But one point here is so…

Faith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…erved if we understand these utterances for what they are: political slogans that speak not to the origins of our nation but to a specific point in its not-so-distant past. If they are to mean anything to us now, we should understand what they meant then.”…

Faith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…erved if we understand these utterances for what they are: political slogans that speak not to the origins of our nation but to a specific point in its not-so-distant past. If they are to mean anything to us now, we should understand what they meant then.”…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…ts, faith films haven’t all been complete commercial misses either. The first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia brought a big profit for Walt Disney and Walden Media—around $750 million globally. After a few films, the franchise stalled, though. Rising production costs, declining ticket sales and increasingly mixed reviews led to conflict between the various production companies. There’s currently a legal moratorium preventing a fourth insta…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…of American Empire any hearing at all. Which means that they dismiss not just Paul himself but also all of the young enthusiasts he has been able to draw to his side, many of them so drawn on account of his plain talk about US military adventurism, and almost surely not on account of any Paul-ist association with anti-Semitism or homophobia or white racism. Because this matter is so very highly charged I feel compelled to state that under no circu…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…oke to our consumerism. Oddly, I came to find the clearest answer to my quest to understand our current culture of shopping in the fourth century. Augustine of Hippo, in his poetically written spiritual autobiography, The Confessions, struggles with misguided desire in his long and arduous path to Christianity. As I searched for a theological category to come to terms with our context, the word concupiscence leapt out at me. A theme that emerges i…