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A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…nd some may even be friendly to some of his policies, said Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary, who is also helping to organize the event. But organizers said evangelicals need to return their focus to the term’s true definition: a person who believes in the authority of the Bible, salvation through Jesus’ work on the cross, personal conversion and the need for evangelism. I feel for them, truly I do. As mentioned above, they’ve been at th…

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…s advisory councils, white evangelicals by and large stood by their man. A number of commentators took to Twitter to point out that America’s elite capitalists are showing more of a conscience than prominent conservative Protestants. Former George W. Bush strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew John Dowd tweeted: Not a single member of Trump’s Evangelical Council has resigned. We have learned corporate America has a greater moral compass…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…nate. Specifically, Rev. Dr. Brianna Parker, the pastor of Assimilation at Dallas’ Friendship-West Baptist Church, offered a scathing critique of the Trump administration as well of as the leadership of black institutions. For starters, it must be said that the institutional black church has always has included a tradition that has historically placed politics central to the preaching moment.Part of that tradition was forged in the crucible of Jim…

Starbucks With a Smile, and a Shot of Politics

By Peter Laarman

…so harshly persecuted, even by their fellow Dissenters. Prior to the 1979 Dallas putsch within the Southern Baptist Convention, almost all U.S. Baptists were strong on the need to resist coerced belief. They hated creeds and formulas. Their great paladin of “soul liberty” and “soul competency” was a Mississippian, Edgar Young Mullins, who presided for many years at the SBC’s flagship seminary. Here is the workplace parallel for self-respecting p…

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…“pro-family” politics were on the rise. In 1995, when she was working at a Dallas abortion clinic, McCorvey met and was converted to Christianity by Operation Rescue’s Phillip “Flip” Benham, an evangelical minister, who baptized her in a swimming pool. McCorvey quickly became the poster girl for abortion regret and a national pro-life spokesperson. As Prager reported, in addition to giving McCorvey a kind of moral certitude that she craved, there…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…ent with strong religious beliefs. Trump cannot even pretend to qualify. A number of analysts, particularly liberal ones, see it as the big reveal, that the Christian right is right, not Christian. The political right has captured the Christians, not the reverse. It’s about politics, class and honor, not God. Arlie Hochschild, in her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land, based on her ethnography of Calcasieu Parish in Southern Louisiana, explores…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Farrell, originally from Ireland, developed a pastoral reputation while in Dallas. He is now charged with merging and managing the many offices now formed into the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, a central focus of which will be the reception of Amoris Laetitia. He could greatly impact how the church responds to and pastorally cares for LGBT Catholics and their families in the many global contexts in which the church exists. Worth noting, t…

“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

By Neil J. Young

…e officer father for the last time before he was gunned down in the recent Dallas police shooting. The crowd grew quiet listening to the account, appropriately moved. But Cruz quickly pivoted to his smarmy and self-satisfied ways. “What if this right now is our last time? Our last moment to do something for our families, and our country?” Cruz asked. He had just compared a presidential election to a nine-year-old child’s loss of her father. Given…

Meet a Renegade Southern Baptist for LGBT Equality

By Sarah Posner

…ife, a lot of hairspray in her hair.” Now, he and his wife live outside of Dallas, where he pastors a house church, works as a hospital chaplain, and volunteers to help death row prisoners and on “queer issues here on the ground.” When the issue of equality in immigration reform came on his radar, he said, “it’s painfully obvious to me. You don’t bust up people’s families.” Hood’s “road to Damascus” moment at Southern was when a respected mentor (…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ional Day of Prayer Still, the National Day of Prayer is problematic for a number of reasons; it blurs the line between Church and State, enshrines monotheism into law, and—in its current practice—it amounts to an annual nod to the inordinate privilege afforded to Christians in our secular nation. This needs to change. Adding a National Day of Reason, however, is one of the worst imaginable strategies for accomplishing that change. First, it impli…