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Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

…or symbolic transubstantiated elixir make. So evangelical and/or fundamentalist pundits opposed to Park51: What say you?   *The list of notable commentators and/or organizations espousing similar points of view include Hal Lindsey, Tim Pawlenty, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, Bill Keller, Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention), Cal Thomas, Ken Blackwell (Family Research Council), and Bryan Fischer (American Family Association). Some mainline…

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Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

…hey are God’s answers. In his view, regardless of whether you are a “capitalist” or a “socialist,” a conservative or a liberal, self-reliance, not government reliance, is the key, since “when you handle your money God’s ways, it will change your life.” If we follow God’s plan, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and re…

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Who Wins When Bible is Blamed for Gay Bashing?

…times and places have cited their Bible to authorize crimes against a long list of people—including those accused of same-sex relations. But then let me ask the obvious question: Who gains when a gay activist endorses the most homophobic of marginal interpretations of the Bible after half a century of gay or gay-friendly efforts to establish better readings? By “better” readings, I mean truer readings. Because, of course, even the one version of L…

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Tainted Love: The Cost of Sojourners’ Refusal to Take Sides on LGBT Issues

…bout their personal lives in order to answer God’s calling. (Check out the list of bloggers on Wallis’ “God’s Politics” blog. Can you find an out gay person among them?) By refusing to take sides, men like Wallis and Claiborne only reinforce the need to hide for the sake of serving the kingdom of God.  While it is commendable that Sojourners seeks to defend gay people against physical or legal harm, their unwillingness to fight for their spiritual…

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The Republicans’ Dangerous Quest to End Nonexistent Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

…shops, Concerned Women for America, Priests for Life, the Susan B. Anthony List, and the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, an affiliate of the American Principles Project, which was launched by Manhattan Declaration author and Princeton professor Robert George. It’s a bill driven by a particular religious view, one that is undergirded by an ideology not just about the fetus (that abortion is murder) but about women and their divine r…

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Nobel Laureates Tell Gov. Jindal to Repeal Anti-Evolution Law

…volution “academic freedom” law just added a bunch of heavy hitters to his list of supporters. Less than a week after a state lawmaker introduced a bill to repeal the law, officially known as the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), 41 science Nobel Laureates sent a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal and members of the legislature backing the measure. “Biological evolution is foundational in many fields, including biomedical research and agriculture,”…

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

Click below to listen to State of Belief host Welton Gaddy interview Rob Bell and read Kathryn Gin’s Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter? here. Transcript: REV. C. WELTON GADDY, HOST: Pastor Rob Bell’s new book “Love Wins: [A Book About] Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived” debuted at #2 on the New York Times best-seller list. Here’s the description: “Rob Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith-the afterl…

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Unreasonable Doubt: Vincent Bugliosi Defends Agnosticism

…So what do we get in Bugliosi’s new book? Among other things, we get a populist disdain for academic theology (for example, he quotes a bit of admittedly jargon-laden Trinitarian theology out of context, and concludes with the single word “Unbelievable” as if that were a refutation). We get an energetic argument for a view that very few philosophers of religion today, theists or atheists, take very seriously—without considering the reason why it i…

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Catholic Church Targets Proponent of Women’s Ordination; Feminist Theologian

…s that it comes at the price of violating the bishops’ own guidelines for “promoting cooperation and resolving misunderstandings between bishops and theologians.” Adopted in 1989, these guidelines were crafted precisely to encourage dialogue and discourage this kind of heavy-handed response to theological work that I would wager most bishops do not understand. Professor Johnson reports that she was neither informed of the investigation of her work…

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Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

…io interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. No, I don’t listen to Tony Perkins. I found the quote thanks to Think Progress blogger Scott Keyes, who offered what he calls this “outlandish statement” as an example of conservatives’ tendency “to dress their political ideology in religious language.” Maybe so. Politicians typically say what their audiences want to hear and this kind of God-talk would certainly please Tony Perkins’ a…

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