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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…0% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Okay, so the flight is not exclusive to hajjis, but when we arrive they announce for us hajjis to remain on the plane and disembark last. Let the other passengers, many whom will transfer to domestic flights, get off first. Well, if the rest of us are hajjis, we don’t all look like hajjis. Only one oth…

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

By Kaya Oakes

…ose questions, sometimes live from the Vatican press room: https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610468747204239360 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610469730340728833 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610480387039608832 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610731367555563520 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610743819869519873 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/610775153497219072 https://twitter.com/joshjmac/status/611441719779983360 Aside f…

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

By Anita Little

…d, 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 called an evangelical. https://twitter.com/d_l_mayfield/status/796229392112332800 https://twitter.com/JohnFea1/status/796228404144177152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw …

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ile instance of “triggering the libs.” Apart from dunking on the “biblical comma,” a number of Twitter users, including RD contributor Andrew Seidel, pointed out that the Bible contains verses that legitimate the practice of slavery. https://twitter.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1417093726346874885?s=20 The funny thing in this regard is that Strachan, an occasional contributor to Tim Keller’s The Gospel Coalition and a classic Calvinist theobro, is kno…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…too surprising for a basic and often-used term. Similar numerical results come from google searches on terms like “run” and “hide.” Meanwhile, “found” yields over 1.3 trillion hits; it still seems that to be found is more popular than being lost. Even so, a vast majority of recent top hits for “lost” refer back to the ABC-TV television show. If you don’t follow Lost you’ll probably still know that May 23 is the series finale. You’ll probably also…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…as a Master’s student at Fuller working the switchboard part-time, and the number one phone call that came through went something like this: “Can you connect me to C. Peter Wagner’s Church Growth Institute? I’d like to buy some materials.” No one was happier than I was when he retired from Fuller and moved to Colorado Springs! I felt like I worked at a catalog call-in center. Seriously. I would never have expected to be talking about Wagner in con…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…ced rejection, shaming, and violence”—in particular, members of the LGBTQ+ community—which sounds like a welcome and refreshing change. But there’s a problem. Gender and sexual minorities don’t just experience rejection, shaming, and violence outside Episcopal churches—they experience them within Episcopal churches at alarmingly high rates, too. And the denomination’s structures (canon law included) have consistently failed to protect them. New da…

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

…ke Taiwan and Vietnam, which are considered relatively progressive when it comes to equality for the LGBT community. Businesses and municipal governments are leading the way in many countries. And in Japan, religious institutions “are more approachable than many people realize,” says the story. “Some temples and shrines openly welcome same-sex couples for wedding ceremonies.” For example: Kyoto’s Shunkoin Temple, which dates back more than 400 yea…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the community: Why not make life easier and just put [a phone] in the house? “What would that lead to?” another Amish man asked me. “We don’t want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a telephone. It’s not just how you use the technology that concerns us. We’re also concerned about what kind of person you become when you use it.” Just so….