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Economy Bankrupting the Culture War?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…and, leader of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, based in Nashville, Tennessee. “Opposition to same-sex marriage is the most unifying issue among Baptists, exceeding even abortion,” Land said. “When they offer same-sex benefits to federal workers, they are using taxpayer money to pay for them and that is something we would be very concerned about and oppose.” The religious right, even in a downturn of support for their issues, rem…

Romney’s Mild Rebuke to Bryan Fischer, and Fischer’s Ugly Speech

By Sarah Posner

…Sekulow, whose organization is co-sponsor of an anti-Muslim conference in Nashville next month that is prominently promoted in the exhibit hall next door. Sekulow is one of the original evangelicals to come out for Romney.) Earlier this week, Joanna Brooks predicted here that Romney would not stand up to the bigotry of American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, who has repeatedly engaged in vitriolic anti-Mormon, anti-gay, and anti-Mus…

Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…mepage was linked to a speech Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was giving in Nashville. Pompeo is an outspoken evangelical who has said in the past that world conflicts, especially in the Middle East, will continue until the Rapture. The Rapture is, according to many evangelicals, an apocalyptic event when Christians will suddenly disappear from earth as God ushers in the end of all things. Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused dip…

Is Tax Evasion a Christian Value?

By Lauri Lebo

The Nashville-based NRB Network, a non-profit television network available on the DIRECTV package, says it’s dedicated to defending biblical truth and “Christian values.” But in light of one of the network’s paid programs, one has to wonder how tax evasion fits into those values they’re preaching. Last week, in honor of Darwin’s birthday, the network put out a news release saying that its prime time Tuesday night programming is focused on refutin…

Mike Huckabee on the Soldiers’ Sacrifice

By Daniel Schultz

In among the expected creepiness of Mike Huckabee visiting “Nashville’s most patriotic church” was this interesting piece of theology: “I am mindful on this weekend, and I hope that we all are, that we have this great freedom because of those in the armed services,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told thousands over the Memorial Day weekend at Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tenn. “We owe to them for our citizenship what we owe to Jesus for ou…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dissemination of homophobic posters “is apparently being coordinated by a number of neo-Nazi organisations.” Junkee also explains that the government’s decision to hold a mail survey, rather than a formal referendum at the ballot box, means that election laws don’t apply, and “there is no requirement for campaigners to authorize any material with a name or address. That means any individual or organization can anonymously create posters or advert…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed knocking on the doors of a bunch of the huge Christian record labels in Nashville. Within a few months, when I was twenty-one, I signed a deal with Flicker Records [EMI, now part of Capitol]. I had some good radio success, toured with major Christian music artists like TobyMac, Mercy Me, and Jeremy Camp, and did a lot of major youth events around the country, including Acquire The Fire and various Christian music festivals every year. I had a d…

Sacred&Profane: The “Cult” of Oprah Inflames Religious Right

By Gary Laderman

…n Kosciusko, Mississippi, then with her father after she moved with him to Nashville, Tennessee. In the African American Progressive Baptist church her father served as a deacon and Oprah discovered the performer inside that loved to be in front of an audience. Her fan base, of course, reaches far beyond the African American Christian communities that figure so prominently in the telling and retelling of her life story, encompassing Jews as well a…

David Barton: Falling from Grace?

By Paul Harvey

…story will affect his political influence remains an open question. In the Nashville Tennessean, a disappointed Barton fan who hoped to see him at a 9/12 rally, and who had The Jefferson Lies on an audio CD, admitted that “the book wasn’t as good as some of his other previous works,” but hoped that “the current controversy won’t undermine his credibility. ‘It’s bad because it’s not typical of him,’ she said. ‘He’s usually so rock solid on history….

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…furrow their brows and wonder how a radicalized political movement has captured their parishioners, the real story is the more enduring influence of white evangelical theology and institutions themselves. Something is wrong at the root. When Southern Baptists gather in Nashville for their annual meeting later this month, this deeper history is unlikely to be on the agenda. Russell Moore’s private anguish revealed that white evangelicals voting fo…