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Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…op in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.” Citing polling data, Evans notes that the problem is one of substance rather than style: “young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old-fashioned, unconcerned with social justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.” In Evans’ view, millennials want a church that’s more prog…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…ho usually happen to be brutal dictators. Despite lacking so much as a Web site, the group is an indisputable presence on the Washington scene. It helped to broker the not-necessarily-intuitive alliance between free-market economics and conservative religion that rolled back the New Deal and built a Republican majority. A handful of Congressmen from both parties live in a townhouse that The Family owns. Born-again Watergate crook Chuck Colson is t…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ant than the fact that they had garnered a degree of independence from the official English church, but over the course of the seventeenth-century their new home at the terminus of the western world took on a profound typological importance. As the historian Sacvan Bercovitch wrote, the Puritans eventually “identified America as the new promised land, foretold in scripture, as preparatory to the Second Coming.” It was at the end of the seventeenth…

God, My Wife, And The Government: Defining Marriage

By Krista Kapralos

…nse. He has published dozens of articles on church-state issues on his Web site, but his opinions on marriage are gaining popularity. “There are a lot of people who are no longer interested in state marriages,” Cobin said. “For religious reasons, they balk at it and say ‘No.’” Covenant marriages, of the type Mike Huckabee, then governor of Arkansas, entered into with his wife in 2005, aren’t enough for some conservative Christians. Huckabee’s wide…

Prison as Resurrection

By Caleb Smith

…years. I’m still involved in other related projects too, including the Web site Imagined Prisons. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Most people seem to assume that the prison is eternal and inevitable. My students are often surprised to learn that punishment has a history: that the modern prison was invented as a response to certain social and philosophical changes around the turn of the nineteenth century. Partly becau…

Is Tax Evasion a Christian Value?

By Lauri Lebo

…currently closed due to government seizure of assets, according to its web site. I visited the place a couple years ago, just after he was sent to jail, and his son Eric had taken over. It purports to teach creation science, but the place was so cheesy it reminded me a lot of those Jellystone KOA campgrounds with the plywood cutouts of dinosaurs. While I was there, I sat in with a group of little kids, who were shown a video defending the biblical…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntry have proven to be false. Integrity USA, a group representing LGBT Episcopalians, has confirmed that the dead man, Pasikali Kashusbe, was not associated with Integrity Uganda. Bishop Christopher Senyonjo—recently returned from his seven-week speaking tour of the United States and Ireland—today issued a public statement on recent reports that the headless body of an Integrity Uganda member had been found in Uganda… “I have never worked with any…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…announced that he was again running for the Republican nomination. His Web site features a quote from James Dobson on its home page. “Judge Moore is a man of courage and strong Christian character,” Dobson says, “and I have long admired him.” Another testimonial comes from Oliver North, identified simply as “American Hero”: “Chief Justice Roy Moore is a proven fighter for his faith and our freedom.” In announcing his candidacy, Moore was up to his…

Why Do We Need the Government to Tell Us to Pray?

By Lauri Lebo

…n was akin to banning prayer. Guess what? The National Day of Prayer’s web site had this to say about it: The National Day of Prayer belongs to Americans. It is a tradition that dates back to 1775 and it is not for a Judge to take away. We the people called for the day of prayer and for 59 years we have practiced our freedom to gather and pray. This is an attack upon our religious freedoms and it is a sad day in America when an atheist in Wisconsi…

Rick Warren Urges Ugandan Pastors to Speak Out Against Proposed Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…ltiplied, Rick Warren this morning issued a statement and video on his web site, calling on Ugandan pastors to oppose the law, and rebutting reports about his relationships with political and religious leaders in Uganda. Warren (like our own Candace Chellew-Hodge did in criticizing Warren’s silence) quotes Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Warren states: [I]t is my role to correct lies, errors…