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By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…f torture.) I wonder if that came up in the course of the deliberations in Denver. Although the outcome of the meeting, the endorsement of McCain, was predictable, the Denver gathering also illustrates the travails facing leaders of the Religious Right. Aside from Schlafly, none of the old-line leaders of the Religious Right—James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Donald Wildmon, Chuck Colson—were present, which underscores a leadership gap in the Religious…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…f torture.) I wonder if that came up in the course of the deliberations in Denver. Although the outcome of the meeting, the endorsement of McCain, was predictable, the Denver gathering also illustrates the travails facing leaders of the Religious Right. Aside from Schlafly, none of the old-line leaders of the Religious Right—James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Donald Wildmon, Chuck Colson—were present, which underscores a leadership gap in the Religious…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…r named in his honor at Calvin College, a small Christian college based in Grand Rapids, Michigan; for years he has had the ear of top-shelf Republican Party political leaders; and he has been a prolific author of books, writer/co-author of columns, and is regular host of a Christian radio news program. Receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal (PCM) was Colson’s most prestigious comeback award. The man with the checkered resumé was now, in the ey…

Vandalism as Conversation-Starter

By Elizabeth Drescher

…universe, the words of a relatively obscure punk band wend their way from Grand Rapids, Michigan via YouTube or Pandora or Slacker to a church wall in Western New York while the forty or so diehard worshippers at Grace Episcopal (fewer than half of whom, according to Broad, use any electronic communication) sleep perhaps a bit too soundly through the night. The promise of conversion in this story, then, has to do with a church waking up to a bigg…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…surprised to learn that the good pastor is relocating himself from square Grand Rapids to Los Angeles, where sheep and goats freely mingle. Trying to get a fix on what “emergent” actually means isn’t easy, and movement leaders say that that is part of the point. Fixed definitions are so very 20th century, and the Emergent Church is nothing if not postmodern and label-evading. The Emergent Church is not a fixed form but a conversation, they say,…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…ry Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003). 4. Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009), 147–48. 5. Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Introduction (New York: Crossroad, 1983). 6. Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Be…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…We have an unprecedented access to cheap goods, yet we must recognize that cheap goods are cheaply made. I am not speaking of quality, I am speaking of cheap labor. We must recognize that through the act of shopping, whether it is for an article of clothing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless in…

Science Mike Building a “Christian Science” Liturgy for the Nones

By D. Ashley Campbell

…e and faith, McHargue doesn’t avoid the political. During the Gathering in Denver, McHargue connected the liturgical reading of Jeremiah 4:11-12 with contemporary events. He tied the passage’s description of barrenness and destruction to Flint’s water crisis and to Ferguson. McHargue also challenged the concept of the post-racial during the Gathering, explaining that many white Americans believe we live in a post-racial society because they can fo…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…Methodist minister Charles Robert Moore self-immolated in his hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, calling the city and the country to repent. In a note left on his car, Moore wrote that “American, and Grand Saline …have never really repented for the atrocities of slavery and its aftermath.”He had previously worked to desegregate Texas churches in the 1950s, helped organize the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and went on a hunger strike…