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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as published in 1978, the New King James Version (NKJV) in 1979, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJV) in 1985, and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) in 1989. There is even a periodical version published in the teen magazines, “Revolve” and “Refuel,” called the New Century Bible (NCV), a version popular among evangelical publishing houses and intended to translate “thought for thought rather than word for word,” keeping an originally simple message…

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

By Kristin Rawls

…pes of responses I expected, so they’re not surprising. It’s easy to write headlines about bad news because we like to watch the car wreck, but the negative experiences really are outnumbered by the positive ones. The biggest story out of this for me has been how much overwhelming support and acceptance I’ve had, not only as a person of faith who is also a lesbian… But so many people who aren’t personally affected by this have said, “It doesn’t ma…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…tion that came out of the 9/11/12 debacle. Alas, it is a part of our brave new world of endless information and mindless usage of that information. Gertrude Himmelfarb once observed: “Like postmodernism, the Internet does not distinguish between the true and the false, the important and the trivial, the enduring and the ephemeral.” Had she added “between the sanitized and the incendiary” her words would have predicted what we saw in Benghazi but,…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…d, body, and spirit in the service of Jesus Christ. Within the evangelical world, ORU is not unique in encouraging this holistic vision, but students who attend ORU know that the school is structured around its whole person ideology. ORU freshman Christian Monsalve, speaking to USA Today College, said that the fitness bands have raised students’ sensitivity toward their activity level. “Most of them,” he continued, “kind of switched gears and star…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…ce in order to wield their respective forms of power. In June of 2017, The New York Times ran the following headline: “Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.” If such headlines are true, which suggest that religious liberals themselves have contributed to their own lack of political efficacy in the public square, part of conservatism’s recent ascendancy can be explained by way of the religious left’s self-i…

Can a Church Split Truly Be Gracious?

By Adam J. Copeland

…he Presbytery of San Francisco. Such eye-popping settlements reflect the PCUSA trust clause concerning church property (and California property values). As our Book of Order puts it, all property is held in trust “for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)”—even a newly built building in Bathgate, population 43. As if theological disagreements are not fraught enough, PCUSA congregations seeking to leave the denomination must negoti…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…tian Century review of Hitchens’ contribution. Stanley Fish’s blogs in the New York Times on atheism are interesting.) Today’s Atheists: Yesterday’s Angst Among the many things associated with the progress of public atheism, “newness” still stands out: new books, new marketing imagination (paid banners on London buses, “There’s probably no God”), new recognition in inaugural addresses, and a hint of new intellectual fashion. But if we step out fro…

Religious Liberty…For Bishops

By Tom Davis

…, not between religious and secular ones. When I was a seminary student in New York City in 1958, the public hospitals of the city would not distribute contraceptives, though there was no law against it. The politicians didn’t want to upset the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York. But when a Jewish doctor working in a public hospital tried to fit a diaphragm for a Lutheran woman the hospital administrator told him it was not allowed. In the ensuing…

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…never homosexuality. Jeremiah 23:14: I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none returns from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Amos 4:1-11: Hear this word, children of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to…

In Wake of Murder in Uganda, LGBT Group Protests Prayer Breakfast

By Kay Steiger

…erred critics from pointing out the connection. Openly gay and now-retired New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Church reiterated David Bahati’s role in the legislation and his connection to the Family in a Washington Post editorial published prior to the event: I call on the National Prayer Breakfast organizers, as an act of good faith at this Thursday’s breakfast, to lead their roomful of influential politicians, religious lead…