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Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…ogic also simplistically views a natural order to the human body, meaning that each part of the body has a function that is connected to the whole person and humans cannot change these natural functions—particularly sexual functions. Natural law anthropology does not take into account anomalies in nature that might account for homosexuality and a variety of functional variations that can occur in different humans. More problematic in Tomasi’s unde…

Discovery Institute’s Bill Dembski Recants

By Lauri Lebo

…teach that the Flood was universal. As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality. What I find most interesting about this is the Discovery Institute has maintained a steady drumbeat on the issue of academic persecution, pushing the argument in countless articles (see here, here, and here), as well as in the movie Expelled. They argue that…

The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement

By Jonathan Dudley

…Falwell and encouraged him to organize evangelicals as a ‘Moral Majority’ that would promote a ‘pro-family’ politics. Once formed, the Moral Majority and its allies mobilized evangelicals to join Catholics in the fight against abortion by advancing a novel and tendentious interpretation of the Bible. “The Bible clearly states that life begins at conception,” Falwell declared, referencing Luke 1:39–44 and Psalm 139:13–16. “Abortion is not birth con…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…tianity versus any other faith, any other religious tradition, and saying that that’s the only one that should be taught. That it should become the law of the land. We know that many, many people who are in faith-based communities would not be in support of this agenda. But I think it speaks for itself. We need to talk about this in terms of how do we get the word out about this? We’re doing our best. We want people to come to our website and take…

Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d it’s filled with these idols. My argument is that when we reduce God to that object that will make us complete and whole and happy, we just put our own product in the vending machine. The church becomes the shop front, the clergy become the salespeople and the worship becomes the jingles. But what about certainty and satisfaction (which you call ‘addictions’ in the subtitle of the book)? We Americans are told that we can have both, especially in…

Praise the Lard This Holiday Season

By Becky Garrison

…of ex-Christians because in his estimation, “We do not have commandments that leave anyone out, and we do not judge, we do provoke questions, mock ourselves and our strange belief and others. But we leave judgement to the courts. We may not agree with every court decision, but we are always looking for proof.” He adds that the reaction he gets from Christians about the UCB depends on the Christian. “There are good Christians and bad Christians, a…

We Are All Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…ume that reads like Vatican ofﬁcials wrote it. Perhaps they did. Although what is more disturbing is that the Vatican has set women up against one another. Conservative women religious collaborated on the Apostolic Visitation and will be appointed to the Archbishop Delegate’s Advisory Team. The effort to rein in LCWR is meant as much to scare the rest of us into line as to corral the nuns. I can say with conﬁdence that it won’t work. Roman Catholi…

Miss Conception: Donald Trump the (Self-Styled) Devil?

By Miss Conception

…) Evil incarnate, she is nevertheless weak, and as such the source of all that is wrong with this country, now cast as a dystopia. Ben Carson has even gone so far as to cast her as Lucifer. Keep in mind that Trump has claimed to be the most Christian of all contenders, indeed the most Christian of Christians, during the primaries, while now tipping his hat to the evangelicals who supported him during his acceptance speech at the RNC. And many of h…

The Value of Crazy-Making Dialogue

By Daniel Schultz

…m away from God. The UCC way of thinking about it, rightly or wrongly, is that that would be wrong. Better to have them ditch the “Father” than to exclude them from the faith. Other churches have different views on these questions. Orthodox Christians and many Catholics would look at that situation and ask “If you can’t all agree that God is Father, how can you say that you share the same faith?” It’s not easy, is the short answer. Because I don’t…

Hip-Hop Religion and Spiritual Sampling in a “Post-Racial” Age

By Josef Sorett

…claims that, “just for a minute, Allah made me invisible… by taking off my hat and believing that they didn’t see me? That was faith—a desperate faith, a true faith.” Sure, readers will struggle to swallow this story (like the big fish swallowed Jonah). And there are many other faith claims made in the book that seem implausible. Yet, part of what makes The Tao of Wu such an engaging read is flair for the dramatic, fantastic, tragic, and the comi…