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Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…s world. And, sort of, what happens when you die… He talks a little bit about, but He’s mostly talking about this world. I think, for a lot of people, the Christian faith doesn’t have, for them, much to say about this world; that it seems to be all about what happens when you die. And so, the book, in some ways, flips it around and says: “I think this is actually what Jesus was doing.” [WG]: Has this been in your mind and heart for a long time? Wh…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…aconian” non-disparagement agreements meant to prevent them from speaking out about their mistreatment. (A number of sources confirmed that similar non-disclosure agreements have been used at Cedarville, and Steele indicated that most members of Gordon’s LGBTQ working group signed confidentiality agreements, although he refused, in spite of pressure.) The conversation was over RD recently spoke with two former Asbury University professors who are…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…dy favorably in my 2000 American Psychological Association presentation about ex-gay outcomes. Then, in 2009, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality cited this study as an illustration of sexual reorientation, saying Pattison and Pattison (1980) reported successful religiously mediated change for 11 homosexuals who participated in a Pentecostal fellowship. Researchers used both pre- and post-change surveys. On the p…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…ik a Christian terrorist and a Christian nationalist, such labels miss the utopian future Berivik describes in his manifesto; a utopia where the right wings of the world’s religions defend one another against Islam and Marxism. One example of Breivik’s conservative ecumenism is the inclusion in his manifesto of an essay from Shrinandan Vyas titled “Hindu Kush, the largest Genocides in the history of man.” The article argues that the Muslim invasio…

Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…uence, but on the other, it aids dangerous factions abroad, like Vladimir Putin, by making a significant number of American Christians his political allies as well. Of course the Holy Synod of the OCA doesn’t want to have a conversation. They want to simply crush opposition and silence the debate. In doing so, they’re leaning into a brand of authoritarianism that would make even the imperial Orthodox leaders of old blush. Despite having developed…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…ht be a Muslim. The President continues to tell everyone he’s a Christian but yet the number rises. See that? Which came first, the thought he was a Muslim or the lack of trust? If he is a Muslim, he can’t be trusted? Or if you can’t trust him, he must be a Muslim? In any case, Obama strained mightily to placate the likes of Graham and Brody while he was campaigning for the presidency. His “faith outreach” played up his faith in Christ, but these…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…CF and its affiliated manifesto don’t represent voices in the wilderness, but draw a number of heavyweight Christian right groups, from the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Focus on the Family, who network with representatives from the Vatican, Mormon scholars, conservative evangelicals and Catholics from developing nations, and a few Muslim leaders seeking allies to fight gay and women’s rights at…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ative peoples were maintaining their indigenous languages, the empire set out to shut them down; a policy that can seem a lot more like linguistic genocide than natural selection. These concerns take us to some of the more difficult questions that this benign mathematical oracle leaves out, and it speaks to the subtle hegemony of a certain quantitative mentality among such scientists—even and especially applied to arenas of social life that don’t…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d reporters that while he doesn’t support homosexuality, “I will not persecute or prosecute gays because in the constitution they are given that right.” Albania: Organizers celebrate upcoming pride on social media In advance of the upcoming 5th anniversary of Tirana’s gay pride celebration on May 14, activists from Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia have been using social media to express support using the hashtag #Kurajo, which means courage, accordi…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…orged by people calling themselves voortrekkers—pioneers—driven to form a separate and righteous society out in the veld. Like the Afrikaners, and like the English Puritans who took refuge in Holland before sailing off to found their New Israel in Massachusetts, the Devout Dutch I grew up among had little doubt (none, actually) that God was on their side. But whereas the Puritans eventually mellowed, as did Holland’s own theocrats, American Dutch…