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Why Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?

By Rachel Wagner

…er son Matthew, after a minor surgery revealed a major health issue (Cedar Fort, 2014). Better known is Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent’s Heaven is For Real. Burpo’s book. A New York Times bestseller, is an accounting of his four-year old son Colton’s trip to heaven during emergency surgery (Thomas Nelson, 2010). Burpo’s book has become a burgeoning franchise, spawning follow-up popular theology books, children’s books, an iPad app with puzzles, color…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…would be the only person there. To Ashli Babbitt, there was solace and comfort [at Trump rallies]. This is comfort, chaos, solace of the surreal. I don’t share it, but I have felt it. And I think that the reason I haven’t indulged in it is—because we make an effort [not to]. People who become captive to pornography, the incels and men’s rights activists—they never enjoy romance and sex with women they claim to desire. Elliot Rodger, the so-called…

Set to Privilege Christianity in Public Schools, Texas Sends a Message About Who is Welcome — And Who is Not

By Steven K. Green

…legislature to set up a challenge to once-settled law. These legislative efforts cannot be viewed in isolation. Since 2010, the Texas State Board of Education, a partisan-elected agency that oversees the state’s education standards and curriculum, has enacted several changes to the content of the public schools’ science, history, and health education course-materials. All of these changes—from emphasizing the nation’s Christian founding in social…

Confession Fail: iPhone App Controversy Muddies the Sacramental Waters

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ch they might send believers. A more earnestly spiritual and sacramental effort, the Confession app was released in January with the development support from a local priest and official at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as an imprimatur from Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Maureen Dowd has described the weirdly variant age, gender, and station-appropriate (if you’re Roman Catholic,…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…slayings had been trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia, I and a small group of friends returned to Georgia to investigate the SOA. In 1990, the SOA Watch was born. When the United Nations reported that those who had killed Bishop Romero and the four U.S. churchwomen, in addition to the six Jesuits and countless others, had been trained at the SOA, and when major newspapers in the United States reported on…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…m the Church, following the Dioceses of San Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” Steps have been taken to reorganize…

Prosperity Preacher Peddling “Death Panel” Myth

By Jonathan L. Walton

…loria Copeland. Over 5.000 persons from across the country packed into the Fort Worth Convention Center to hear Copeland and their Word of Faith line-up proclaim their message of divine health and wealth. Yet when it came to President Obama’s plan for health care reform — a plan that would greatly assist the vast majority of working class and underemployed conference attendees — Kenneth Copeland was excessive in his disdain for government-run heal…

Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…ing conservative Catholics to the rapidly eroding bastions of the besieged Fort Trump. Pence’s appearance was, in many ways, a coda to the effort that began in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election to fuse conservative Catholics and evangelicals into a reliable right-wing electoral bloc, delivered, appropriately, by a man who personifies the rise of evangelical Catholics or, in Pence’s case, catholic Evangelicals. Pence’s appearance, coming…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…o the overthrow of the American government.” (Fischer also said, after the Fort Hood shooting, that no Muslims should be allowed in the U.S. military.) As despicable as his words are, it is instructive to have the hatred and bigotry stated so forthrightly. There is no hiding here behind the idea of opposition to a specific site such as Ground Zero, or the need to be sensitive to the raw emotions of 9/11 families. Here is the underlying, perverted…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…, working as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, where he’s served for 15 years, until being removed from his position in May following the revelation that he had counseled women in his care to forgive their rapists and to stay with abusive husbands. (It should be noted, however, that Patterson leaves with a golden parachute that includes “compensation,” a title as president emeritus, and, according to the Was…