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Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…and the idea of “mission,” one that bears little resemblance to the “cold contact witnessing” model I learned on a teen missions trip nearly 30 years ago. (It would have been more effective literally to throw Bibles at the heads of unsuspecting passersby than it was to accost complete strangers with questions such as “where would you spend eternity if you died tonight” or “do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and savior”?) “We are beginning to…

Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…admitted in an interview with Ed Stetzer that he had engaged in “physical contact that went beyond the bounds of friendship,” with the blogger, but that he does not identify as gay simply because he’s, y’know, tempted to kiss and fondle other guys. What makes me the most sad, however, is the continued peddling of the lie that to be Christian one must “suffer” or “struggle.” This is the line we hear the most from gay and lesbian people hoodwinked…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…called, “religiously-mediated change in homosexuals.” Recently, we came in contact with a religious hotline crisis program sponsored by a Pentecostal church that offers lay crisis services to homosexuals. This program claimed to involve a number of persons who were “ex-gay,” that is, these people had experienced a basic change in sexual orientation from exclusively homosexuality to exclusively heterosexuality. (p. 1553) According to the Pattisons,…

Rick Warren Won’t Denounce Proposed Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…Church, nor the Global PEACE Plan strategy. In 2007, we completely severed contact with Mr. Ssempa when we learned that his views and actions were in serious conflict with our own. Our role, and the role of the PEACE Plan, whether in Uganda or any other country, is always pastoral and never political. We vigorously oppose anything that hinders the goals of the PEACE Plan: Promoting reconciliation, Equipping ethical leaders, Assisting the poor, Ca…

Sleep-Deprived

By Amina Wadud

…retend that is why I am awake. He sleeps all night but not without a human contact somewhere in there once or twice. As long as we cuddle him and give him the pacifier he’s good ’til morning. I can’t take him for the night with the fast because he’s at the age where he gets to decide the clock and unfortunately he might just compete with the divine mandate for getting up in a timely fashion for us suhur diehards. It would just not work if he was u…

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

By Sarah Posner

…seph Smith,” although Peterson noted that he didn’t know how Smith came in contact with teachings about Islam or what he read about Islam. There are critics, said Peterson, who “think we’re too friendly with Muslims.” Such critics, particularly evangelicals, he said, think “we should be condemning Islam as the religion of the devil, and because we’re not, that goes to prove we’re not real Christians.” While the Church has, said Peterson, avoided t…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…e past 18 months, I’ve developed a number of relationships with people who contact me because they find themselves in a similar situation. They ask questions, I don’t push. I’m simply a listening ear…someone safe for them to talk to. What was the response to your coming out as an atheist? An enormous number of Christians have threatened to do physical harm to me. Many others have been kind in their response. They don’t understand and of course, t…

Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…BS movements are in league, and there are reports that Wirathu has been in contact with Buddhist monks from Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia, where pitched battles have been taking place between Buddhists and the Muslim majority in that locale. Wirathu said it wasn’t just Buddhists who were concerned about Islamic extremists. He said that his fears were shared by some Muslims, and gave the name of a leader of the Muslim community in Mandal…

Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…sing with Sarah, the eldest Pfefferman sibling. Sarah has been having some contact highs with Judaism throughout season, while Raquel has experienced a downward spiral, “gutted” after a miscarriage and a breakup (not to mention some disastrously unsexy sex with the too-earnest Cantor Duvid). Sarah tells an already agitated Raquel that Jewish ritual makes her want to get back together with her ex-husband, and that “Jewy stuff” makes her feel sexy:…

Christian-Bashing Air Force Officer Story is Just That

By Rob Shryock

…who bothered to reach out to Colleen McGee, the military public relations contact on this issue, would have figured this out. But when I called her, I learned that I was only the fourth reporter to do so. “Normally, for a story like this, I’d expect about forty calls,” said McGee. McGee cleared up some basic facts: first of all, Phillip Monk was not “officially fired”; rather, he was transferred back to his field (medicine), a transfer he had bee…