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How Gay Should We Allow Feeding the Hungry To Be?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…han as a church body with doctrinal responsibilities. He told Christianity Today: “It’s easy to read a lot more into this decision than is really there. This is not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. We have decided we are not going to get into that debate. Nor is this a rejection of traditional marriage, which we affirm and support.” For many religious Twitterati and bloggers, however, the debate is on. For progressives, the move by World Visio…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

….S. power aligned with the rise of Billy Graham (his famous New York City crusade was in 1957), the founding of Campus Crusade of Christ (1951), and other evangelical groups aiming to fulfill the Great Commission. Elliot’s story emerged at the center of the wave of these movements. As global capitalism began to make middle-class life more and more comfortable, something was needed shake people out of their settled religious ways. Human effort, to…

The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster

By Chrissy Stroop

…North America (ACNA), aboard as the author of a Times-subscriber-exclusive newsletter. Her opinion piece introducing the newsletter is focused on the notion that “we” need to start talking about God—as if America weren’t already super-saturated with conservative Christian God talk—though it’s presented in a meandering, aw-shucks tone that suggests an openness and broadness of spirit belied by her actual history and affiliations. In fairness, what…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…opulation eventually. Conservative Christians and social scientists have already begun to spill a fair bit of ink over the question of how the coronavirus pandemic may alter the prospects for Christianity in the future. Some conservative Christians are openly celebrating our present crisis as a supposed spur to religious revival in a strikingly tone-deaf manner. For example, Robert Nicholson opened a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed with the rathe…

Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make

By Richard Pierard

…an Century, which has begun to open its pages to evangelical contributors, news, and books, while its circulation figures have held firm. Christianity Today remains a rich source of information about all things evangelical, but it needs to be more balanced and to give space to the voices of younger critics of evangelicalism and the older figures who stand behind them. 4) Finally, evangelicals have to get off the abortion issue. The electoral defea…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…ort of both MHC and his current publisher. On the First Things blog, Carl Trueman recently wrote: the health of the Christian subcultures in our society depends to an important extent upon the freedom of the Christian press; and that in turn depends upon having plenty of public voices and different groups presenting their different perspectives without the threat of being silenced by those with power and money. I need voices that criticize me and…

Christian Colleges, Gay Faculty—and the Boy Scouts

By L Marston

…d a Rhodes Scholar (Calvin has had one Rhodes Scholar), and both the local newspaper and alumni magazine have run feature articles about the student. Upon receiving a Ph.D. from Oxford, this Calvin graduate applies for a teaching position at his/her alma mater. What will the message be? I presume it will be something like this. “We loved you as a student and are extremely proud of your accomplishments. However, should you want to be on the faculty…

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

By Rebecca Moore

…s with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in their June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower, they were telling the truth, sort of, since they were discussing repercussions of the Magnitsky Act.) Under the act, dozens of Russian officials involved in documented abuses have been sanctioned. In 2016 Congress extended the act to encompass any country engaged in human rights violations. Under the Global Magnitsky Act, Secretary of State Pompeo recently named…

Hillary-the-Preacher, and Why Journalists Can’t Let Go of the “Democrats Don’t Get Religion” Story

By Daniel Schultz

…hat they’ve been conditioned to believe for many, many years. My policy in reading stories about why Clinton lost the election is to downgrade pieces that don’t consider alternative explanations. With Trump’s margins so close in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you could attribute the results to any number of factors: economics, race, vote suppression, Clinton’s mistakes, or yes, Russian interference and Comey’s disastrous memo late in the g…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…o engage. And yet, even as counter-extremism initiatives have come under scrutiny, they continue to receive significant funding from, and partner with, major cities, universities, and other institutions. The Trump administration, Aysha Khan reports, has nearly tripled the amount of CVE funding awarded to law enforcement, and CVE’s advocates continue to present these initiatives as a more palatable alternative to other forms of surveillance and cou…