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War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…ukah or Happy Kwanzaa or Happy Ramadan to their customers? What if non-Christian customers don’t wish to be to be greeted with “Merry Christmas?” Should Christians care about their feelings? It’s my contention that they should. Loving one’s neighbor involves respecting and being sensitive to their feelings. My suggestion is that if Southern Baptists feel the need to de-secularize Christmas they should practice the teachings of Christ and reflect o…

Fear, Guns, and the (Unwinnable) War Against Death: A Letter to My Fellow Americans

By Beatrice Marovich

…ulture as well. Think about American pop culture where almost every blockbuster storyline repeats this defeat of death: The Matrix, Game of Thrones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars (the list is probably endless.) But what if this view of life as a war against death can do nothing in the present but feed the fire of fear that’s burning so many of us? What if that old Christian belief that death is the greatest enemy of God has made people so af…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…stts in 2004 with my wife, just in time for Massachusetts to become the first state to legalize gay marriage. We were told by ecclesiastical leaders to sign petitions and call legislators to get it overturned. I didn’t make any calls, but I agreed with them. But I remember that when they said, “You have to do this because marriage is under attack,” I thought to myself that I didn’t feel like my marriage was under attack. Fast forward to 2008. I’ve…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…ion occurs in a vacuum. The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, remains in crisis after receiving the very report that revealed Johnny Hunt’s misconduct. The Guideposts Report uncovered hundreds of instances of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist life and a “pattern of intimidation” on the part of Southern Baptist Executive Committee members toward sexual abuse victims (p. 176). Meanwhile, Auburn University has…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…urch, provided aid and inspiration to Roeder, according to Robb: Roeder first stalked Tiller at his Wichita church, Reformation Lutheran, in 2002, the year Operation Rescue moved there. Operation Rescue had already begun demonstrating at the church, and on the group’s website Newman had announced plans to gather at Tiller’s clinic, church and home. Also that year, Roeder says he went to lunch with Newman and asked him about using violence to stop…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…r we went to celebrate ion our favorite mosque and I looked up to see my sister standing behind the food table serving others. My sister’s death was all the more difficult because it came immediately upon the heels of the birth of my second grandson. One minute we were on the phone and I was describing the birth event and sharing photos on Facebook. The next day, she went to bed, coughed once, and then breathed no more. She was 44. I thought about…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…among the participants ahead of the forum and promote Egypt as a safe tourist destination. Instead, the activists posted images of security forces assaulting and arresting youths at protest sites and shared portraits of jailed journalists, activists and others who have allegedly been tortured or forcibly disappeared. … Hours after it was launched, the hashtag became the top trending topic on Twitter in Egypt, unleashing a tidal wave of anti-govern…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…health care simply because they were transgender. Insurance companies in most states were barred from treating transgender patients any differently than cisgender (non-trans) patients, and HHS formalized a rule that allowed transgender people to file discrimination lawsuits if they were turned away or mistreated by a healthcare provider. But what about the millions of Americans who aren’t transgender? Well, any of those citizens who have a uterus…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…paration concerns has earned DuBois praise from his admirers. As I wrote just last week, John DiIulio, the first director of the previous iteration of the office started by former President George W. Bush, extolled DuBois as “a brilliant young minister with a graduate degree in public administration from Princeton.” Yet for all of DiIulio’s regard for DuBois’ efforts at partnerships and service, there has indeed been doling out of money, as under…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…ming to them, Let my persecutors be shamed, … bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction! (Jer. 17:18) … Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses… (Jer. 18:21-22a) Kendrick, like Jeremiah, fantasizes about r…