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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…; he’d clearly read some of the book, which is rare. Jon Stewart wanted to talk about Calvinism in the green room, but on screen we mainly talked about C Street and sex in the kitchen. Radio, of course, was a whole different story. The bottom line is that the further you got from establishment press, the more serious the questions became. The Las Vegas Sun didn’t want to giggle with Maureen Dowd about sexual improprieties; they wanted to follow th…

David Carr’s Secret to Honesty: Sin

By Daniel Silliman

…fallen short of the glory of God” have gotten good at reframing that, and talking about how to find your life purpose. Even Calvinism, with its doctrine to total depravity, gets rebranded sometimes as the pursuit of eternal pleasure. Call it “Christian hedonism.” Other times, people talk about sin, but it’s other people’s sins. It’s gays and secular humanists, feminists and people who watch 50 Shades of Gray. Essential to the idea of sin, however…

For White Christians ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ Reflects ‘Anti-White Bias’ According to New Research

By Daniel Schultz

…actually communicate something about race. Al-Kire and Pasek suspect faith-talk is used to convey coded messages that would otherwise be socially unacceptable. “We know that racism is widely condemned,” says Pasek. “We’ve gladly moved past the days where you could have these overt racist actions taking place in the public sphere. And yet we also know that there are a lot of people who still harbor deep racial prejudices.” What Pasek and Al-Kire be…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…God, the theologian is guided toward an appreciation of the limits of God-talk, practices humility, and realizes that, when it comes to theological discourse, we really can’t know what we’re talking about. To feign otherwise would be egocentrically idolatrous. Pseudo-D and his medieval contemporaries “believed that God exceeded our thoughts and concepts and could be known only by dedicated practice.” Armstrong argues that the “reason why so many…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…anniversary of Darwin’s birthday on the horizon, I had the opportunity to talk with Pleins about the more complicated portrait he has developed of the role of religion in Darwin’s thinking and how it might invite us to reconsider his scientific contributions and the debates they have enflamed. You argue in the book that, from Christian fundamentalists, to unwavering atheists like Richard Dawkins, even to more moderate folks who’ve developed the…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ts against the leaders and members of the group. Kirby reportedly said “We talked to their activists about what had happened. We will continue to support the work of human rights of LGBT people, which for us is a basic human right.” Caribbean: Dennis and Judy Shepard Meet with Officials and LGBT Activists The Washington Blade reports that the parents of Mathew Shepard are meeting with LGBT rights activists and others in Trinidad and Tobago and Jam…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…It’s not that Paul was backwards, ignorant or wrong, Paul just wasn’t even talking about gay people. What we are discussing today, then, is the marriage issue, so how do you begin to move conservatives toward accepting that? After my video was released there were those who said, “Even if you’re right and the Bible doesn’t talk about gay and lesbian people of today, we need to look at what is the positive vision of human sexuality in marriage laid…

Cardinal Dolan Not So “Charitable,” says Young Gay Catholic

By Peter Montgomery

…e priests that we needed to keep having this conversation, that if we keep talking the Church may respond in a good way. There is an opportunity for Cardinal Dolan to exercise a teachable moment, meet and talk with these young people, hear their stories, to show that they have dignity that should be respected. We have focused too long on catechism and canon law. We need to focus on people. We should be asking what can we do together, the LGBT co…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…e of the trendiest ways for many wannabe hip churches to be shocking is to talk frankly about sex,” he writes. “Shock value ultimately comes down to this: making the case that Christianity isn’t the boring, whitewashed, clean-cut, safe religion people assume it to be.” Mark Driscoll has had a corner on shock-value pastoring since the emergence of his Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, and his latest book, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendshi…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…tanding of religion. We can’t overcome political differences through faith talk because we can’t come to even overlapping consensus because our society is changing, a change reflected in our politics. Once Americans as a society have come to terms with the changes they are experiencing, the faith talk will regain its potency. It will serve to bridge divides. That will always be a contested process, so it’s not necessarily good news, depending on w…