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Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…that he would kill innocents in revenge for the innocent Syrians killed in Western airstrikes–it’s not clear that this was primarily, or exclusively, politically-motivated violence. A number of commentators seem to believe Mateen was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adj…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…d Boston’s CBS Radio affiliate that there was more political and religious freedom in Oxford, Mississippi, than there was in Boston. A similar discourse of embattlement and doom predominates today. Christian psychologist and childcare expert James Dobson recently warned: “barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself.” In apocalyptic tones reminiscent of fundam…

The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…he Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, “Ye shall be as gods.” The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism’s faith in Man.” I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in t…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…Schaeffer offered the fundamentalist biblicism of his theological mentor. Western civilization, Schaeffer proclaimed, was in decline after it abandoned the notion of absolute truth. Schaeffer identified Christianity’s opposition as “secular humanism,” a feared ideology that followed from liberal Protestantism and paved the way for collectivism. The only way to improve society, Schaeffer promised, was a return to the “biblical worldview.” Within e…

Greek Riots: “It’s a beautiful thing, freedom.”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…this in the name of freedom. There is something to marvel at in a modern, western country that takes the archaic values of freedom and autonomy with such seriousness and an appropriate sense of religious awe. The police shot a fifteen year old boy in Exarchia and killed him. For four days, the people of Athens and several other important Greek cities have risen up in anger and outrage, burning tires, throwing stones, demanding justice. No one has…

Biblical Inerrancy: Responses to “What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe?”

By C. Joshua Villines

…ic stance” against contemporary Western society (and sometimes against non-Western religions), which aligns them with radically alienated conservatives who have more secular concerns (e.g., the Tea Party Movement in the United States). It is this trend, I suspect, that more than any other factor has increased tensions among Christians to the breaking point, despite occasional efforts (e.g., the recent “Civility Covenant” signed by progressive and…

Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…n to a pithy saying of Jesus) must be a Bible-smuggler who, in the name of Western hegemony, is determined to smother all exotic cultures, especially Islam, with civilizing Christianity. In fact, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and most Protestant, including evangelical, mission is defined today by a servant model. Modern Christians express their discipleship through medical, educational, agricultural service to those who need it, because they see the f…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…sm of the tendencies of separation, analysis, self-centredness inherent in Western thought… Yet [these cultures] were never examined with the respect they deserved…they were ridiculed and replaced as a matter of course first by the religion of brotherly love and then by the religion of science… Shapiro sees his book as opposed to Christianity. But for Feyerabend, the evangelical Christian and the evangelical skeptic are united in a quintessentiall…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…abloid media is growing, his stance enjoys a lot of support. Gabriel fears western influence is fundamentally changing African societies for the worse. “Western society is trying to destroy us,” he says. “Behaviours such as fornication, spirit of independence, gay rights, no respect for elders, abortion and birth control are being imported. African leaders must maintain our culture.” He says the archbishop of the local Episcopal church is currentl…

The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet

By Jay Michaelson

…is fair, and 2) What it says about the mainstream media’s approach to non-Western spirituality. Let’s dispatch with the first as quickly as possible. Fourteen paragraphs are devoted to Glenn Black, a yoga teacher and physical therapist who explains How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, while zero paragraphs (not one!) are devoted to an opposing voice; someone, anyone from the yoga or medical communities who has a different point of view. Shockingly for a…