Religion Dispatches
…d some common ground between two people who disagree on an issue. The five-minute condensed version of our hour-long discussion, is up at The Atlantic. The whole discussion is available at bloggingheads.tv. The second discussion, on my own bloggingheads show, was with Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson, about the fallout from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of the controversial religious freedom bill there. Matt goes against the grain of much of conser…
Read More…ld submit to her husband.” They booed loudly and long enough to give her a minute or so to come up with a way to dodge the views she has expressly embraced in the past: views shared by the religious right voters she is courting in Iowa. The question has been called sexist and even anti-Christian. Bachmann defenders are suggesting that it was a personal question and not appropriate for a presidential debate. Bachmann responded as though the questio…
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…The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween Hell Houses LUCIA HULSETHER A 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods offers violence, fear, and an Obama-like Antichrist Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover W. SCOTT POOLE A demon guides you through the shadows. The bodies of teenagers are strewn about like broken dolls in the mangled remains of a car, bottles of Jim Beam tellingly scattered about the wreckage… All Candy, N…
Read More…t his own “Act Like Men” conference, coincidentally held a mere forty-five minute drive away in Long Beach, California. So on Friday, Driscoll took a break from espousing his creepy patriarchal gender philosophy to bring a message of sort-of-inclusion forty-five minutes up the road to Sun Valley. Once he arrived, Driscoll handed out copies of A Call To Resurgence, shook some hands, and prayed with a few people. But it wasn’t long before trouble…
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…and talk about the night before he died and share bread and wine. They’ll still baptize in the name of that same God. What that looks like changing and I think it will continue to change. I think, any minute now, my church will be outdated. There will be people in their teens and twenties saying, “You guys are out of it and you don’t know which questions you should be asking.”…
Read More…ould still be released currently. I was writing about Brown’s recent last-minute plan to comply—sort of—with a court order without releasing additional inmates, whereas I and others involved in criminal justice reform applaud the smart justice direction that the governor and legislature took two years ago under the rubric of Public Safety Realignment. Anyone on the fence regarding Governor Brown’s criminal justice record need only refer to this…
Read More…ematic claim that the NYPD stopped 16 terrorist attacks on his watch. (The number, according to Pro Publica, is more in the realm of three) But has targeting mosques actually helped to protect New Yorkers? After all, the NYPD itself admitted that its investigation into the Muslim community produced zero leads. And there is compelling evidence that mosque attendance actually helps prevent terrorism. A 2011 study found that 95% percent of Muslims wh…
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Read More…roselytizing to us?). Let’s leave aside the evolution-creation stuff for a minute, though, in order to note the sheer deceptiveness of the implication that the NGSS is some kind of federal imposition. Sure, it’s a national standard. But it’s a national standard that was drafted in partnership with a group of states—twenty-six, to be exact, including liberal bastions like Tennessee and Arkansas—and, in order to be implemented, it has to be approved…
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…fueled obsession with hearing ourselves speak, we could just shut up for a minute and listen to the wisdom of those who have gone before? … [What millennials really need] from the church is not another yes-man entity enabling my hubris and giving me what I want. Rather, what I need is something bigger than me, older than me, bound by a truth that transcends me and a story that will outlast me; basically, something that doesn’t change to fit me and…
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