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The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

…agrees with; the market should be kept “free, healthy, and under the influence of people who understand that importance of personal responsibility,” as “out of control spending” and “intrusive regulation” are “as wrong and immoral and stealing;” and the the tax code should be revamped “so we can rejoice together because it would stimulate economic growth.” But there’s more. There’s good, and there’s evil, and in laying out a parade of evils, Robis…

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How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

…Gurdjieff when I was quite young, in college, and abandoned it. And by chance in San Francisco someone who was part of that was in my class and at first I thought, No, I’ve already tried that and I’m not interested. But he urged me to read a book. I read it. I realized there is something here after all. So that was a parallel. My personal inner work was parallel with my academic work in a way. Although I never made the connection between God and…

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Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

…question is, “What exactly is going on?” And there appear to be several conclusions. One is that a number of the people who are categorized as Nones still claim to believe in God. Many of them occasionally attend religious services; hardly any of them identify clearly as atheist. So they may be, for some reason, identifying themselves as non-religious even though they still believe. We also know from some of the surveys that they identify themsel…

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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

…but to 3. Of course, this kind of picky debunking would do little to convince Weick. Ever since the Book of Revelation was written, Christians have tried to decode it. They have used gematria to prove that Muhammad, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and countless popes were the Beast. Some have noted with dread that each of Ronald Wilson Reagan’s three names contained six letters. Indeed, when the Reagans retired to Bel Air…

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Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

…spicable. No matter how much one disagrees over an issue, threats and violence are never the answer. What Exodus and their ilk do, however, is a form of spiritual violence on gay and lesbian people. Chambers swears he’s not looking to “fix” gays and lesbians, or make them get married to opposite sex partners—as he has done. Instead Chambers insists his goal is “to point them to Jesus.” And, as he wrote in his 2009 book Leaving Homosexuality: “The…

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(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

…by including this chapter? Leslie Chambers: We didn’t feel like we had to include it. We chose to include it because it’s a question we’ve been asked. It was an attempt to just be honest, and we hoped that if we told that part of our story, people could read the other things we wrote knowing that we weren’t afraid to be honest and share even those things that seem so personal. It wasn’t an effort to justify our relationship. I don’t feel we need t…

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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

…ecy Conference” hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church last week. The conference also included Drs. Tim LaHaye and Gary Frazier. In Luke 21:25, we read that there will be signs all around us prior to the return of Christ. Stating that we must discern the signs of Jesus’ second coming, Dr. Hindson noted six modern developments indicating that the stage is being set for the return of Christ. They are: 1. Israel returned to the Promised Land (1948) 2….

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US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

…ey point here is that the bishops found the previous gender-affirming guidance to be out of compliance with their ERDs without having to make any changes to the ERDs, which very clearly state that all care must comply with Catholic teachings (and prohibit what it calls “elective” surgeries on healthy reproductive organs). That they’re moving to do so now, then, when the issue seems to be almost nonexistent within Catholic hospitals in the first pl…

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Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

…stration’s rule does not impede anyone’s right to worship. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently launched an Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty because “never before have we faced this kind of challenge to our ability to engage in the public square as people of faith and as a service provider.” It has portrayed public policy and laws, ranging from same-sex marriage to same-sex adoption to contraceptive coverage as a violation of reli…

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In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

…r drift away from mainstream Muslim institutions has to do with her experience after the PULSE nightclub shooting in Orlando. Aly became very involved with the Trust Collective, an interfaith coalition trying to build partnerships between faith communities and the LGBTQ community. When she first became involved, there was some interest from others in the Muslim community. “The last meeting I went to,” Aly said, “I was the only mainstream type of M…

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