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Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

…sometimes flirtatious man with twinkly blue eyes. He studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student with the original hope of becoming a doctor—a profession Jim’s parents, a Marin County, California lawyer and a nurse, held in his such esteem that as a child Jim was taught to stand anytime a physician entered a room. But even though Jim was arguably the brightest of the five Kopp children, and even though he graduated high school early a…

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Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists

…of the Old 97” on the turntable just before bedtime and let us run fast around the den-living-room-kitchen loop. He turned it up. We ran faster and faster as the nearly out-of-control sound of Old 97 pushed us forward, wrecking finally in a joyous three-child pile on the den floor. We did it again and again until Dad finally sent us to bed. Years later, when I was in college, I found Dad’s old guitar under his bed and pulled it out and began messi…

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Coulter Feasts on Gay Republicans at Homocon

…g to deepen the political and religious divide between LGBT people and the community at large by inviting people to come and insult and belittle you. Which makes this comment from LaSalvia all the more sad: “I don’t agree with Ann Coulter about gay marriage, but there was a real conversation here. That’s what we’re trying to start.” He added, “We want people to see that it isn’t ‘us versus them.’” If that was the goal, Jimmy, then Homocon was a mi…

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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

…what they’d learned about big data manipulation, microtargeting, and tech companies’ undermining of civil society to the broader public. The result is the new documentary People You May Know (go to trailer), starring Kriel and directed by Viken, which spotlights the role played by churches, many of which use big data for microtargeted outreach, in the information manipulation ecosystem that continues to erode democracy in the US, the UK, and else…

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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

…t, the ‘biblical comma’ tweets reflect a desire to put clear borders and boundaries around the biblical text, just as he has sought to do with marriage, family, and the nation. For him, the Bible is scary if it offers permeable categories and ambiguity. Of course, reality is full of permeable categories and ambiguity, and authoritarian movements—whether religious, overtly political, or, as is frequently the case, both—are driven to keep that compl…

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“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

…and author Skye Jethani expressed on his website: Look at what you have become—little more than a political identity with a pinch of impotent cultural Christianity. You’ve become a category for pollsters rather than pastors, a word of exclusion rather than embrace…What was admirable about your name has been buried, crushed under the weight of 60 million votes. I am no less committed to Christ, his gospel, and his church, but I can no longer be ca…

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Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

…write about it but hadn’t bothered to learn Italian first. https://twitter.com/mboorstein/status/610501314032893952 But whether one chose to read and write about the leaked version or not, the question remained: was the leak an ethical violation? Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho said that Magister actually was running with a “legitimate scoop” and that Holy See spokesman Monsignor Frederico Lombardi (a Jesuit) had erred in his use of the term “embargo….

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Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

…’t keep themselves from putting a godly gloss on Mammon’s ravenings. The latest shallow screed of this kind comes from one Jay W. Richards, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation (formerly of the Discovery Institute) whose just-published Money, Greed, and God has picked up purplish plaudits from the likes of George Gilder and Michael Novak (and just how 1980s is that?). Richards’ association with the Discovery Institute in particular may pro…

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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

…l Roberts Universities and the Joyce Meyers Ministries, both of which have come under attack for financial shenanigans, have received clearance accreditation from the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA). According to Charisma News Online, the ECFA recently said that both “had met the group’s standards of ‘responsible stewardship,’ which involves ministries’ financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fundraising…

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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

…rating everything from Religious Freedom Day to Christmas—is intended to become easier as they systematically build political momentum toward more controversial legislation, like religious exemptions from providing health care to LGBTQ people, and, over the long run, to create a more theocratic society. At least, that’s the plan. Going down the Jeffersonian road Dominionist leaders have generally recognized that Jeffersonian notions of religious f…

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