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“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…was working directly with the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in promoting this agenda, and specifically the way that I opted to do that was by organizing a summer bus tour, which we conducted last year. And the objective of that summer bus tour was to go around to the states where this is a hot-button issue, and where the issue is alive, and promote the agenda that NOM supports: that marriage is between a man and a woman only, and that…

Religion and Reality TV: Is God Watching?

By Kent L. Brintnall

…n undisclosed, but reportedly astronomical, advance for his sequel to Your Best Life Now. (He did confess having trouble coming up with a title for the sequel to his superlative-laden debut work.) Americans seem to want a God who has a stake in the minutiae of their personal existence. Osteen’s God, for example, is a God of details. He writes in Best Life that God cares about the outcome of our lives and wants us to be happy, successful and blesse…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…which claims CRT advocates are “wolves” with “the worst of intentions” who promote an “overt war on Christianity,” was a national bestseller. In it, Baucham argues that George Floyd’s murder was “not unique” and not evidence of “police brutality regarding black men” because police also murder white people suffering from mental illness like Tony Timpa. Despite credible allegations of plagiarism, the Right continues to promote both Fault Lines and B…

Doubting Ourselves Through the AZ Shooting

By Julie Ingersoll

…at that’s what people on “my side” do too. To make it worse, even when the best of our leaders assert that “both sides do it and it needs to stop,” our media culture is so divided that most of us couldn’t come up with examples of our own side “doing it.” I find appalling the way that Sarah Palin talks about “re-loading” in the face of criticism and even more so the target map circulated by her PAC that received so much coverage this past weekend d…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…he dynamic that humans discern the form of government they think will work best, and God works with it. As it happens, our form of government is not distinct from the people it serves: the government is the people is the people of God, formed in God’s image, which makes the formation of government a godly, even sacramental, endeavor. God invites humans into the business of creation and re-creation. We suck at this work! Humans are selfish, stupid,…

“Who Was Muhammad, Was He Violent?”: Teaching Islam Ten Years
after 9/11

By Abbas Barzegar

…ces. On the other hand, the attacks of 9/11 have brought forth some of the best this nation has seen. I recall receiving flowers at the office door of our Muslim Student Association at the same time our members reported being spat on. Responding to such bigotry, civic leaders, faith-based coalitions, and academics charged the battle lines of public discourse in the best spirit of humanism to show that Islam, like all other religions, was at its co…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…radition becomes corrupted. Traditionalism isn’t in itself bad, but it can promote social rigidity just by bringing together people like-minded in their stubbornness; at worst, it can lead to radicalization. In fact, radicalization seems to be the bigger picture of white Christianity, and white America in general, over the last few decades. Those willing to let go of tradition in favor of something more cosmopolitan and egalitarian have by and lar…

A Scholar Responds: Candidates, Think Twice When Invoking Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of the difficulty Mitt Romney faced as he tried to position himself as the best “religion and values” presidential candidate. In short, both items, his religion and his values, were suspect. Balmer noted that in his version of Kennedy’s pre-nomination speech about religion, Romney was unable to offer the assurance that Kennedy was able to provide: namely, that he was committed to the separation of church and state, and that he was determined to ke…

Will the Real Progressive Christians Please Stand Up?

By Delwin Brown

…ho are now gaining voice on the center-right of American politics. And the best way to share that message is to work with these conservatives whenever their commitments overlap with those of progressive Christians. It is not enough to be clear about what we believe, they insist, or even to be forceful; progressive Christians must also get someone to listen to them. And the best way to get a hearing is to work alongside others whenever the opportun…

What is a “Religious Progressive” Anyway?

By Daniel Schultz

…tirely sure how one can chuck a link at someone’s head, so it was probably best to just let the whole thing drop. As it happens, we hold a certain affectionate proprietary feeling for the term “progressive.” After all, we grew up in Madison, home base of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, who ran for the White House on the Progressive party ticket, and whose journal survives to this day, headquartered down by the Essen Haus practically in the shad…