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The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…tory. For some weeks I had been struggling with a timeline of the geologic past my dad had shown me. Adam and Eve were not to be found anywhere on it. And, as a pastor friend once told me: One’s theology is basically a question of what holes one can live with. So as I pondered the Adam & Eve question a kind of hole opened up in my theology until I could no longer live with it. Then, one day while I was talking on the phone in a dark room, just lik…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…. Here at COP21 there is a youthful spirit, a nearly Minnesota niceness, a palpable sense of hope. YES WE CAN, SI SE PUEDE is the spirit of every display. Whether the subject is a green bond for large cities or riding a bicycle so that you can charge your cell phone or blend your free smoothie, the spirit has that vibe, that playful spirit of early hope. Our skateboarder is ready to ride. Here you can see mushrooms growing out of logs injected wit…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…other attack. And we really want coalfields people to be in a calm mood to participate in conversations about the region’s future.” But what is the value of an official statement if it is not made public? It is curious, too, which “folks in the coalfields” the Diocese chooses to stand with in this case. What of those coalfield residents who have to deal with the effects of mountaintop removal day after day, knowing all too well the systemic causes…

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…aths may not have been the elite American military cadre some hours ago in Pakistan, but the legion of cell phone-toting protestors earlier this year in Tahrir Square. They have helped to complete the erosion of legitimacy that has undermined the jihadi activists in recent years within the Muslim world. For the past thirty years, the jihadi movement has crested on a wave of popular unrest and been propelled by the moral legitimacy given by th…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…wanted to create music that allows a diverse group of people to enjoy and participate. I’m so glad that more people feel they can come and be honest about who they are. I did a show at a lesbian bar in which a couple came up to me and said, “We’re fiscal conservatives, and we’re evangelical Christians and we’re so glad to be here.” There is so much joy in bringing our gifts to diverse communities, and I’m grateful and honored to be able to watch…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…saw the corruption of the census in 2008 and the obstruction of political participation. We saw protests over the appointment of Governor Haroun—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide in Darfur—and the razing of El Feid, the home village of his leading opponent. The members of the State Election Committee received threats that they had to declare Haroun the winner or they would be killed. These things are well known in Sou…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…’ Anti-gay missionary and pastor Scott Stirm was challenged by Rep. Frank “Pawpa” Mena after Stirm criticized Garifuna religious practices, specifically saying the Dugu funeral ceremony is “witchcraft.” The Garifuna people are, according to a Wikipedia entry, “mixed-race descendants of West African, Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak people,” many of whom practice a syncretic form of Catholicism that incorporates some traditional mystical p…

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones

By Joseph Laycock

…s. One legend holds that visitors who point both arms at the monument (one palm up, one palm down) will receive a psychic message from the stones. Another Guidestone admirer, Yoko Ono, composed a three-movement score entitled “Georgia Stone.” In 2000, Dr. Reagan R. Davis, a Christian minister, visited the stones and concluded that the Guidestones may well describe the ten commandments of the Antichrist. Particularly upsetting were the precepts to…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…any other name) a Reconstructionist? And as Gerson noted in his essay, the number of people who can be labeled in this way would “fit in a phone booth.” (Actually there are significantly more than he recognizes, but I take his point.) My point, though, is that this is the wrong question. Far more interesting, I think, is to look at the influence of Christian Reconstruction; how has it impacted the style of the conservative Christianity that makes…