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What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

…tal LeVar Burton, “you don’t have to take my word for it”: https://twitter.com/RLStollar/status/1384913611546669057?s=20 https://twitter.com/sunny_in_MN/status/1384920004555071491?s=20 https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1384925594148917253?s=20 After reading exvangelical homeschooling survivor and children’s right’s advocate Ryan Stollar’s thoughts on Shellnutt’s article on Twitter, I asked if he might comment further for this piece. Stollar obliged…

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…pressed concern with how refusing to understand that “true” Christians can commit horrible deeds “denies the violence Christians have committed—in the past and in the present—in the name of Christianity.” He also observed that this denial “collapses the world into ‘true Christian’ (good) and ‘not true Christian’ (bad), so that anyone who is not Christian is lumped into the ‘bad’ category,” adding that this “flattens Christianity and denies the div…

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

By Holly Welker

…ewsroom.org and several other relevant domain names—latterdaysaintnewsroom.com, thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.com, and thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.org—have been nabbed by the church’s critics (who can’t properly be called anti-Mormon since the church itself is now officially anti-Mormon). Restoredchurchofjesuschrist.org says that it’s “under construction, but Ldsnewsroom.com was still available as of this writ…

A Progressive Christian Conference With an All-White Lineup: What Could Go Wrong?

By Anita Little

…e know that our staff and our current speakers are sharing a plethora of recommendations of absolutely awesome potential contributors…We have, indeed, committed sins of omission against our sisters, brothers, and nonbinary siblings of color. We ask for your forgiveness as we seek to do better. However, the apology was hedged with them also stating they had originally reached out to several people of color to be speakers but their schedules didn’t…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…m to be conflating the award’s revocation with censorship. https://twitter.com/DaleHurd/status/845248456092463104 https://twitter.com/David_Fairchild/status/844961424224899072 https://twitter.com/absonjourney/status/844603619118907392 William Stell, a recent PTS alum who is now a PCUSA pastor in New Jersey and identifies as gay, also agrees that many are making a false equivalency between refusing to honor someone and silencing them. “[The revocat…

New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

…ng. https://twitter.com/GraceC_9/status/839954624127840257 https://twitter.com/sofiepearl61/status/839835075785199616 https://twitter.com/PoshPlunder/status/829417751328542720 Though the all-caps invectives provide a healthy dose of schadenfreude, there seems to be a doubling down of sorts happening offline. In a widely circulated story last month, Rev. Joel Tooley of Florida described his uneasiness at a local Trump rally he attended with his 11-…

White Evangelicals Support Trump in Tremendous Numbers

By Evan Derkacz

…als”… but the evangelical brand is likely to take a sizable hit just the same. And it didn’t escape the notice of Christians of color—particularly women—who didn’t hold back: https://twitter.com/YNPierce/status/796209685976195073 https://twitter.com/fifthpastor/status/796207613247627268 https://twitter.com/BrandiNico/status/796239825951035392 …

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ative to the rest of the country, for every search I looked at, retirement communities search more about hell,” he writes. Each month, on average, 422 people in the US ask Google “Why did God make me ugly?” and 103 ask “Why did God make me black?” The most common God-related question, asked over 25,000 times per month in the US, is “Who created God?,” followed by that old Job-ian classic, “Why does God allow suffering?” But we should be careful he…

Islam is as American as…

By Peter Manseau

…how American Islam is. Islam is as American as basketball. pic.twitter.com/O6IcSkxvy1 — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as dancing with dad at your wedding. pic.twitter.com/HZL7fRzWFC — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as pride and ambition. pic.twitter.com/ghycpAaTXo — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015…

Is Sex Outside Marriage Dehumanizing? The Problem with Tim Keller’s ‘Biblical’ Sex Ethic

By Chrissy Stroop

…xual activity or even solo exploration of one’s sexuality is certainly not common to all Christians. When asked to comment on Mohler and Keller’s claims, for example, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister, said, “It’s kind of stunning to hear this missionary talk in the mouths of modern Christian men. Really? Sex inside marriage only? Otherwise it’s dehumanizing? I’m sorry to state the obvious, but we humans are at the top of…