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Pastor Implicated in Sex Abuse Scandal is Back

By Rob Shryock

…ore comfortable returning to the broader evangelical conference circuit. Although he will likely never be as popular as he once was, with the help of friends like Mohler, he can continue to speak and earn a four-digit speaker fee. A comment from subversive Christian blogger Julie Anne Smith whom I spoke to about a month ago was sadly prescient: “As long as a pastor has the right theology, their behavior, no matter how bad it is, can be covered up….

Godly Game or Godless Satire? Countering Biblical Ignorance with Heretical Humor

By Betsy Shirley

…e care,” “An endless stream of diarrhea,” or “A defective condom” with fill-in-the-blank statements like “I got 99 problems but ________ ain’t one,” A Game for Good Christians, released earlier this year, offers a scriptural twist: most of the material from its 300-card deck has been lifted directly from the Bible, with chapter and verse to prove it. The results fall somewhere between playful irreverence and flat-out blasphemy. For example, if the…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…atnot. And I am not being patronizing here: the clearing dimension, the out-of-the-blue dimension, is important. None of it will be transformational, however, unless a lot more people can be touched by the same spirit of exodus and be actively engaged in some form of active or even symbolic resistance. The vicarious identification thing will have a very short shelf life. Saying no to the death culture, to the money culture, takes practice. We woul…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…y visits its family. Every year, millions of families unplug from their day-to-day lives and reunite. Siblings compare their parallel lives. We peruse old photo albums and take mental snapshots of our aging parents, forming a past-and-future flip book of our own aging bodies. We get scared. We tell old stories and overeat. New Year’s resolutions are what happen when bloated Americans go back to their lives, and then pivot optimistic in the face of…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…reement in an amiable and conciliatory manner. As I read Carlos Fraenkel’s new book, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World, I wondered whether he himself imagined such a scenario. Fraenkel believes philosophy can save the world—or at least make us more respectful of one another. A professor at McGill University and the author of Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy, Fraenkel traveled th…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orbidding “offences against morality.” South Korea: Activists denounce LGBT-free education guidelines LGBT equality activists called on the Education Ministry to do away with new sex education guidelines that exclude LGBT topics. According to the Korea Herald, “The government remains reluctant to bring the LGBT topics to the fore in the education field, citing anti-LGBT sentiments in the country. It said that it requires a social consensus and lon…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…to forgive. God rewards those who show lenience. When the Prophet’s father-in-law, Umar, became Caliph in 634, he suspended all hadd punishments for theft (the maximum possible punishment is amputation). Due to a famine in the lands under his control, he, one of (Sunni) Islam’s first great scholars, reasoned that a maximal penalty on a people in economic hardship was morally odious. Thus when we discuss the question of Islam and slavery, let us n…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…December 1 election in which he was defeated by his opponent. Now, a state-run newspaper is charging that “the LGBT lobby” is “allied with the Oil and Gas Lobby in an endeavor to understake a Regime Change Coup in the Gambia.” The inauguration of Adama Barrow, certified as the election winner by the country’s Independent Electoral Commission, is scheduled for January 19. As the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reminds us, “Jammeh in 2015 said he…

The Technological Apocalypse is Coming (Straight to DVD)

By Andrew Aghapour

…one day “address humanity’s grand challenges.” This might sound like a run-of-the-mill new religious movement, but what makes Ray Kurzweil’s “Singularity” movement unique is that it doesn’t consider itself religious at all. Singularity Theory holds that technology will continue to grow exponentially until “human” and “digital” forms combine seamlessly. Last year Robert M. Geraci wrote this fantastic essay on the “Cult of Kurzweil,” contextualizin…

What Religious “Hostility” Looks Like

By Evan Derkacz

…s all religions put together. Nearly 4,000 victims of racial attacks, and 1,500 each for religion and sexual orientation. And we’re talking violence committed in a single year here, not a ten-year compilation of 600 politicized lawsuits, misreads of the 1st Amendment and half-truths that actually encompass nearly 20 years. Just food for thought. …