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Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rove themselves capable of serious self-reflection and repentance. To give credit where credit is due, Stetzer has argued in the Washington Post that “God’s people should be the first ones to open their arms to refugees.” Nevertheless, so long as Stetzer is at least as dedicated to saving evangelicalism’s image as he is to calling for evangelicals to be better, he remains complicit and part of the problem. White evangelicals own the disastrous Tru…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…in between, he found time to reinvent American cinema (Pixar gets partial credit for the CGI and digital animation revolutions—but partial is enough). He and his fellow hackers did this not as part of the establishment but as countercultural heroes. Big Blue was run by corporate suits—Apple, and the early Microsoft, by long-haired hippies. Steve Jobs invented stuff, and that stuff changed the world. Contrast Jobs with the “Wall Street” being oc…

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

By Becky Garrison

…s in his latest book A Call to Resurgence (Tyndale, November 2013) without crediting Jones. Later, she produced evidence that material from Driscoll’s study guide Trial: 8 Witnesses From 1 & 2 Peter (Mars Hill Church, 2009, out of print) contained material from the New Bible Commentary (InterVarsity Press, 1994) that was also used without proper citation. After Mefferd accused Driscoll of plagiarism during her interview with him on November 21, 20…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…presence and a generative aura. This is the world, not just of capital and credit, but of the credit card. Money generates more money, quite literally. In times of real crisis, the presses at the Treasury Department may never stop turning. And this leads to Buchan’s third point: the essential equality of access the capitalist system presupposes, one that is ironically at odds with the essentially hierarchical cosmology of traditional, pre-modern C…

In the Trenches with the HRC, Working for Transgender Inclusion

By Rev. Erin K. Swenson

…ion covering students (Student Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 4530/S. 3390), credit (Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act, H.R. 4376), and housing (Fair & Inclusive Housing Rights Act, H.R. 4820; Housing Non Discrimination Act, H.R. 4828). HRC has also advocated for administrative action in the Obama Administration, successfully pushing for updated nondiscrimination statements to include gender identity and clear statements in government public…

Using ‘a Little Bad History’ The Supreme Court Just Gutted Church-State Separation in 38 States

By Steven K. Green

…ncluding religious schooling. The Montana Supreme Court ruled that the tax credit violated the state constitution’s no funding of religion provision first adopted in 1888 and then re-adopted in 1972. Reversing the Montana court, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the no-funding provision discriminated against parents and religious schools on the basis of their religious status in violation of the Free Exercise Clause. The holding means that state no…

The Evangelical Pluralism Problem and its Media Enablers

By Chrissy Stroop

…view with Chauncey DeVega that’s well worth the read. To give credit where credit is due, Fea, the author, most recently, of Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, has been more forthright and steadfast than most evangelical critics of white evangelical support for Trump, and he’s also dug deeper into the problem. In his interview with DeVega, Fea starkly observed that evangelicals “have no model for pluralism. They cannot grasp any ide…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…Benedict XVI set in motion any change to canon law? Will he step down or ask any complicit bishops to resign? Will he even order a Church-wide investigation? Unlikely. Instead, his moral authority will continue to erode. The number of priests will continue to dwindle. Catholic women will assume more and more administrative and other posts, and the hypocrisy of refusing to ordain them will become increasingly apparent. The house of cards will fall…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…infringes on that comfort. By the end of this study, I was shocked at the number of educated people I met who dismissed my work as a book on “freaks.” Ideally, I would like readers who dismiss this community to stop laughing, and readers who fear this community to perhaps smile. What alternative title would you give the book? So many books have been written about vampires that almost every clever title has been taken. Our Vampires, Ourselves was…