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Engle Supports “Principled Stand” of Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill Promoters

By Sarah Posner

…could be a biblical basis for a death penalty, that the United Nations has promoted the “homosexual agenda” to Uganda’s detriment, and he lauded the bill’s promoters’ efforts to take a “principled stand” against that. It’s no wonder, then, that Bahati and Oyet interpreted his statements as supportive of their ambitions. Engle claimed to not specifically remember meeting with Bahati and Oyet while in Kampala, telling me: I don’t even remember their…

Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters

By Randall Balmer

…lation), the progenitor of the notion of church-state separation. “I would welcome the history of my Baptist forefathers in going to jail over these issues,” Williams said. “I will not be silenced by intimidation.” I guess I was unaware that Roger Williams was receiving tax exemptions from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. And what is the object of H. Wayne Williams’ ardor? Williams endorsed Gordon Howie (not to be confused with hockey great Gordie Ho…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mes of economic crisis, any way to create a new pilgrimage site provides a welcome boost to the local economy, whether in Poland or in Tuscany. But the Church is not doing it, this time; a museum of modern science is. Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something else entirely, a c…

Poll: Gays Oppose Arizona Immigration Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…some of the most Christian principles in this matter. This community of outcasts understands, on a gut level, if not a religious level, that it is good, and just, and moral to welcome the stranger; to show hospitality, especially to the least of these. Remind me again how people can’t be good without God?…

Tony Perkins Has A Point

By Lauri Lebo

…erence for our Savior, show clips of them. All of us can tolerate and even welcome discussion over religious differences. But when it comes to mocking the Person Christians believe was God in the flesh, the Savior of the world, under the guise of humor, we’re compelled to speak out. We ask that you please email Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom, and kindly ask them to not allow this show to make it onto their schedule. I never thought I would…

Ted Haggard’s New Church: Gay-Friendly?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e didn’t say it in those exact words—but that was his message. Yes, you’re welcome as lesbians to be in our church, but we expect that we’ll convict you that you’re wrong and will want to change. That’s the message of Haggard’s brand new church in Colorado Springs, which he announced this afternoon. Asked if his new church would take a position on homosexuality, Haggard said “we will take positions.” “I’m going to teach the Bible, chapter by chapt…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…zation took center stage, preparing the way for a modern period that would welcome both humanistic individualism and the eventual triumph of reason and science. The early modern world was astir with cultural renewal, technological innovation, and religious reformation. The printing press captured the oral tradition on the written page, and the printed word became a matter of depersonalized, static precision. Henceforth, all religious quarrels (bot…

Immigration Reveals the Many Faces of Jesus

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ith Abraham, three strangers come to Abraham and Sarah’s home and they are welcomed in with a lavish meal. The strangers turn out to be angels from God who bless them with news that they are to have a son at their advanced age. When Jesus is asked in Matthew 25 who will get into heaven, Jesus offers these criteria, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took me in.” That’s a far cry from t…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…holic Church, without a Pope or anyone else on top, a Church where all are welcome and involved. This creeping clericalism was operative in the analysis of the sisters’ letter in support of the health care bill. Some commentators tried to equate the sisters and the bishops as if there were really two sides within the Catholic hierarchy and now the other side had spoken. With all due respect to the nuns, this is simply not true. As the health care…

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…to reignite the culture wars in the name of religious liberty. In a video promoting the Declaration, Colson likened contemporary America to Nazi Germany, and “elites” and “intellectuals” to Hitler. For decades, PFM has placed its volunteers inside prison walls to minister directly to inmates. In addition to questions about the programs’ effectiveness, such partnerships with state institutions have drawn legal challenges. InnerChange, a PFM progra…