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SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…I believe that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible verbally inspired Word of God. I believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the great news that any sinner who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved.” A pastor who instructs a wife to submit to her abusive husband—as Patterson did—is therefore not truly following complementarian theology. Any abuse justified by complementarianism, in Mohler’s eyes, is not true complementarianism an…

Woe is Me (“Ya laytani”)

By Amina Wadud

…told with details related more to that value or virtue. There are lots of times when the emphasis is on keeping to the truth and avoiding deception, especially the “lie on Allah.” It’s important in the Qur’an to avoid spreading lies about God. If you think about it, the significance will ring out loud. How many times do we hear of people doing horrific things in the name of God? Anyway, the section of the Qur’an I am reading now reviews these sto…

Mitt Romney At Value Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…he Obama administration fostered “counterfeit” values. “Counterfeit” is a word often used in Mormon religious discourse to characterize how Satan misleads by disguising evil as good. Obama and Satan. And that was it for religious content. Romney quickly returned to B-school talk, descending into a cheerful, ambling discourse about how corporate brands often reflect the personality of their founders. Walmart and Sam Walton. Microsoft and Bill…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…more. I guess he abandoned the idea after a week. It is not that easy. Sometimes you have too much to say, sometimes you really have nothing worth sharing and some times what you say seems awfully stupid even to you. So why, Oh why would you share it— let alone expect people to read it? But people are reading, at least some people at some time. When I was at an iftar this weekend some one made reference to my analogy between Ramadan and the Queen….

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…ator John McCain officially received the political endorsement of a rising new lion of the American Christian right, pastor John Hagee. McCain sought his support, it is fair to assume, as Hagee had constructed a national political lobbying group, Christians United For Israel [CUFI], (which in its own way approximates the vote-getting heft of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority of the late 1970s and 1980s and Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition of the l…

The Ground Zero-Sum Game

By Reuven Firestone

…historical success proves theological truth. It was a zero-sum view of the world: “Truth is with us. All else is falsehood.” That conclusion would haunt Christian believers some generations later with the extraordinary success of Islam. Within twenty years of the death of the prophet Muhammad, Muslim armies controlled the Middle East and much of North Africa. After only two more generations the Muslim empire stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to In…

Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

…cy in some detail for Religion Dispatches. To add a few more examples, the New York Times has established a permanent home for columnists like Ross Douthat, who warns of the “grim data” on declining religiosity. Rather than establish clearly what’s so grim about it, the article makes two seemingly contradictory accusations against people who’ve left the faith. First, Douthat warns of encroaching “scientism” which, in this context, is code for fail…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

…. Nice. But I hope you noticed I said man to men, and I don’t ever use the word unless explicitly male. I never use that word for human being, person, or humanity as whole. That gives people too much license whether to include women as persons or human beings, so I just don’t do it. But here it is intentional. Well, I think about the idea of hajj as a visit before the king. Men, who are basically used to certain predominance in society, if only in…

Gay Families Score Lower Than Dogs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r on TV,” Powell says, and “people became much more likely just to say the word. The sheer fact of talking about it seems to make a difference. It brings it out of the shadows.” I’m sure it didn’t help the anti-gay cause when Laura Bush voiced her support for marriage equality, either. But, all in all, it seems that people are finally getting it that it’s not the correct mix of genitals and offspring that make a family – but love is what truly mak…

How A Cat Saved My Life

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…spot to commit suicide. I was fifteen years old and was struggling with a new word that I had learned: “lesbian.” I knew it was word that applied to me—and the more vernacular “dyke” that I had been called by some classmates. I didn’t like either of them. “Lesbian” sounded like a horrible disease (no offense to natives of Lesbos), and “dyke” was not yet an epithet I had learned to love for its amazing power and strength. After dark, when the down…