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McChurch Picks Up Progressive Endorsements

By Katie Meier

…reinventions include a developmental guide or a spin-off sequel, while the latest includes an event tour (Pay by credit card or check!). To be clear then: McLaren is his own consumer trend. But his reinvention sells and, when consumed, produces fertile opportunities for insight. A ticket to the “Everything Must Change” tour is, somewhat oddly perhaps, a plunge into a pool of progressive partners. Multiethnic churches and urban ministries will play…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers‘ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the worst thing in the article. To be fair, journalists don’t write their own headlines [Dan didn’t write this one, for example. –the eds]. Also, I should point out that Douthat’s first three paragraphs go off without him tripping over his own shoelaces. The…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…der calls the world’s most progressive gender identity law. The law is the latest in a series of LGBT rights laws ushered in by the Labour Party after taking power in 2013, a dramatic about-face for the country which has aconstitution establishing Catholicism as the official religion. Catholic teachings have long held great influence over Maltese family law; Malta was among the last countries in the world to approve to divorce, which voters did by…

Religious Leaders Demand Apology from West for Anti-Islam Comments

By Sarah Posner

…e to the American values that you reference. Regrettably, this is just the latest example of your tendency to offer intemperate comments about Islam. At a town hall meeting during your campaign, you characterized Islam as America’s enemy and asserted, “Islam is a totalitarian, theocratic political ideology; it is not a religion.” Such untrue and inflammatory remarks intensify an unsettling trend of anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear in our country. The…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on the Fox site are vowing to boycott Google in favor of Bing, Microsoft’s latest venture into the search engine business. They might want to rethink that move, too, since Microsoft was one of the first companies to include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policies and actually offers “partial coverage for transgender surgery (effective in 2006) to its existing coverage of other transgender-specific health benefits.” In the words of Ho…

Will ‘Conjuring 3’ Influence Real-Life Events Via the ‘Exorcist Effect’?

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ine Warren, has mastered the conceit of being “based on a true story.” The latest installment, The Devil Made Me Do It, is loosely based on the 1981 murder trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Johnson’s lawyer attempted to plead not guilty by virtue of demonic possession. The trial drew international attention as well as calls from movie producers and publishing agents. In fact, this is not the first film adaptation of the s…

Not One of “Those” Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…“which Christianity is this?” whenever they get a press release or see the latest outrage. Who does it represent? How does it advance their agenda? We are long past the time, if such a day ever existed, when statements about Christian beliefs or practices could be given neutrally. I wouldn’t expect an outsider like McEwen to evaluate the claims made by various Christians. Like she says, it’s not her job. But responsible writers ought to let their…

Anti-Choice Groups Prove It’s Not Just About Abortion Anymore

By Patricia Miller

…n the “pro-life” side of the ledger are reportedly in a tiff because their latest darling, Obria, which adds a medical component to crisis pregnancy counseling centers to capture patients and public health care dollars, has agreed to refer for contraception in order to quality for $5.1 million in federal Title X funding for its Southern California clinics. LifeSiteNews reports that it was tipped off by anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson (who’s th…

Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners

By Andrew Aghapour and Megan Goodwin

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour and contributor Megan Goodwin discuss public shaming and new religious movements. Goodwin’s RD article, “Don’t Be Tooken In by Kimmy Schmidt‘s Cult,” galvanized hostile reactions from across the web. For more on blame, read the introductory post or explore the full series. This conversation was edited for clarity, le…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ul himself converted to be a follower of Jesus within a year or two at the latest of Jesus’ death—which means that people were telling enough stories about Jesus for Paul to convert a year or two later. All of that shows that the mythicists who claim that Jesus was made up 30 years later in Egypt, or some other claim—that simply can’t be right. We have evidence of people telling stories about Jesus in Palestine within a year or two of the traditi…