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Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…re excerpts from a conversation with the young, intelligent, and energetic pastor Jason Crosby. What was the process like that led Crescent Hill to adopt an unequivocal commitment to LGBT inclusion? I’ve been at Crescent Hill seven years. I came about the time that folks from Burma began arriving in large numbers and uniting in membership with Crescent Hill, and much of my time in those early years was spent trying to figure out how in the world w…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…rd, to re-write American history without God. For Rushdoony, Barton, and apparently Huckabee, history is not the academic discipline most of us have in mind when we use the term: the effort to assemble evidence from the past to understand events, their context, and change over time. In fact, Jon Stewart nailed it when he argued that Barton “doesn’t seem like a historian, he seems seem almost like a theologian whose thrust is ‘I want this country t…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…gs on a pillar in the right aisle. Pope Sergius IV, who had been Gerbert’s papal librarian, wrote his epitaph. It reads, in part: “The emperor, Otto III, to whom he was always faithful and devoted, loved him greatly and offered him this church of Rome. They illuminated their time, emperor and pope, by the brilliance of their wisdom. The century rejoiced.” Upon Gerbert’s death, Sergius said, “the world was darkened and peace disappeared.” How prop…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…can finances, will take longer than these first nine months of the Francis papacy. The phenomenon of a pope becoming a pop culture icon is fascinating, troubling, and not a little confusing. Here are a few of the puzzles I’m struggling with as I try to make sense of the current Catholic religious scene. 1. Pope and Papacy All of the enthusiasm about Francis’ style does not change the fact that the institutional Roman Catholic Church is a rigid hie…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…kissing a small Brazilian flag. Young Tongan men stand squarely in groups, palming thick books of LDS scripture, wearing tupenu—traditional calf-length linen wraparound skirts–with their white shirts and ties. Gauntlets of young locals in dark suits line walkways on the north side of Temple Square, cheerfully singing hymns from the screens of their iPhones or from green-backed hymnals, while a clutch of protestors—evangelical Christians, mostly, t…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…val Village. There will be no roller coasters or other thrill rides. AIG’s partner in the theme park project, Ark Encounter LLC, is a for-profit business based in Missouri. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear attended the press conference, praising the project for the boost he says it will give to the state economy. Developers say the theme park will bring 1.6 million visitors a year and will be completed by 2014. A writer from the blog Barefoot and Progr…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…ions of the law, rather than just stating them. Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the video is when the female police officer, who will be required to ticket them in the near future, asks to take a picture of them. Sarkozy’s ban may have inadvertently created the sense of “Frenchness” in a way he didn’t anticipate. These women have crossed the religious and cultural divide to add to the motto “liberty, equality, and fraternity.” Now everyone wil…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…as funny these days. Perhaps because reality has turned bloody, for good. Pathetically, the left-wing radical magazine that once mocked left-wing radicals—as well as everyone else—has turned somewhat sour. It only seems to sell papers when it insults Muslims and plays with the lives of anonymous people (as well as its own reporters’). In today’s Le Monde, Charb, the director of Charlie Hebdo, declared: “It may sound pompous, but I’d rather die st…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…been an attempt to engage with this interactive world without compromising papal authority (though as Elizabeth Drescher notes here on RD, this is a nearly impossible feat). The medium itself demands “sharing” in the form of give and take, while the power structure of the Vatican insists that religious authority is in the giving, and less so in the taking. A June 2011 video of the Pope learning to use an iPad reveals what appears to be resignation…