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Christianity-Lite, in 140 Characters or Fewer?

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…tense need for communication endures as online storytelling via twitter and other microblogging sites take on novel applications, and bursts of Passion Plays. Welcome, Digital Good Friday. The world awaits new resurrections of the living word online….

Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…al Assessment in April 2012 alleging that the women were not upholding and promoting the institutional church’s view of the world. For the next five years they were to reform themselves and function under the aegis of Archbishop Peter Sartain and two auxiliary bishops who would review both their annual meetings and publications. The Vatican’s unrealistic hope was that the women would see the supposed error of their ways and comply with the Vatican…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…ove you, in other words, but you’ve been replaced. By me. Of course you’re welcome to convert and join in the fulfillment of your faith. This belief is often accompanied by a sort of patronizing respect for ultra-Orthodox Jews, as well as a sneering dismissal of “cosmopolitan” Jews who “don’t believe their own scriptures,” to quote a young man I knew in college who assured me that Jews who do believe their scriptures are “easy to convert,” because…

“Ready to Be Arrested?”: GOP Prez Candidates Show Up For “Freedom2015”

By Julie Ingersoll

…heir lectures, unless you know what to listen for. The conference has been promoted as an opportunity for Christians to become educated to protect themselves and their families in the coming persecution in the wake of the Obergefell decision. On the website, visitors are told to get ready for “the gathering storm,” and are asked: Are you ready to be arrested? Are you ready to lose your children to the state? Will your church be shut down? Will Chr…

Dining with Dawkins in the Humanist Bosom

By Edward J. Larson

…he night for a science lecture. He used his platform to offer advice and encouragement to secular humanists. Dawkins could have spoken for twice as long without wearing out his welcome and, when he finished, scores rushed the rostrum carrying cameras to document the moment. He posed with them graciously….

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…have nowhere to turn for help in case of state persecution; some of these welcome the patronage of politicians. Others still refuse to buy into the dualism of sacred versus secular, preferring instead to see God as fully invested in humanity’s full experience—these consider democracy an arena in which they can be the salt of the earth and light to the world and the leaders have worked, among other things, to reconcile bitter enemies or to oppose…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e start of the parade, Reverend Brent Hawkes spoke of the need to actively welcome everyone within the LGBTQ tent – especially people of colour. He cautioned those who bandy the slogan “all lives matter” as an attempt to discredit the black queer movement. Leaders of all three levels of government sat at the front row as Hawkes gave the speech. A group of gay conservatives associated with a group called Queers Against Islamic Apartheid joined the…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…forts to identify all of the congregations located within its borders” and welcome an invocation by anyone who wishes to give one, regardless of their faith. The majority decision also states that the policy must be one of nondiscrimination. The opinion adds that the invocations must not “denigrate nonbelievers or religious minorities, threaten damnation, or preach conversion.” The Humanist Society, an adjunct of the American Humanist Association,…

Evangelical Writers Take Homophobic Hipster Pastor to the Mat—Sort Of

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t the limits of acceptance in the Christian tradition: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.” I’m hardly suggesting shunning Driscoll and his ilk (okay, I would indeed be down for that, but my better angels are pragmatists), but if the developing progressive voice of evangelical Christianity hopes to gain any sustained credibility it needs to develop a sustained zero…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e didn’t say it in those exact words—but that was his message. Yes, you’re welcome as lesbians to be in our church, but we expect that we’ll convict you that you’re wrong and will want to change. That’s the message of Haggard’s brand new church in Colorado Springs, which he announced this afternoon. Asked if his new church would take a position on homosexuality, Haggard said “we will take positions.” “I’m going to teach the Bible, chapter by chapt…