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4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…something regarding her sexual history, and you’re surprised by the news, search your vocabulary and choose your words carefully so as to avoid unfortunate double entendre. I’m looking at you, Victoria Koloff. 4. “I’m not upset with you. I want to know how you’re feeling” is a really standup thing to say when someone tells you difficult news. Olivia Perry, a single teen mom of a baby daughter named Eden, isn’t happy with the results of Eden’s pat…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

… The Economist has put Erdogan in Ottoman dress on its recent cover. Some search his life for evidence of authoritarianism. This is pointless. Elect almost any politician back to power enough times, and he will become authoritarian—don’t give me comparisons to George Washington, who knew when he stepped down power would continue to be in the hands of his kind. Erdogan’s recent overreach is the expected result—he has won too much and he still fear…

LGBTQ Victory at Christian Azusa Pacific U. Leaves Significant Questions About Future and Faculty Security

By Chrissy Stroop

…escribes the process, “A group of friends and I worked day in and out to research about laws, mental health statistics and ways that would support our cause to make sure LGBTQ+ students were being well advocated for by reversing the policy and removing the ban.” The resolution passed by a 2/3 vote, and, after some delay, was accepted by the board. According to Cayla Hailwood, a queer senior who was instrumental in drafting the SGA resolution, “LGB…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…cast shade upon them, heaping insult upon the injury of reduced subscriber numbers as mobile gaming became all the rage. All the money was micro transactions. But now the metaverse is back with us. The old incarnations linger as the new iterations arrive and take center stage. Once we started imagining the possibility of virtual worlds, our relentless pursuit was predictable. The world we live in is rich and wonderful, but far from perfect. We’ve…

O(Pinn)ion: Defending Obama’s Choice

By Anthony B. Pinn

…answer is simple. Religion, at a fundamental level, is concerned with the search for life meaning—the effort to come to grips with the terrifying questions that confront us: Who are we? What are we? Does our existence matter? Rituals, doctrines, structures, and so on, are simply the way in which we dress up this more basic and shared wrestling with our ultimate significance. But it is this fundamental function that really defines what we should m…

The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…Thai soccer coach for taking his players into the cave. Thailand leads the search and rescue mission, but many other nations are contributing assistance and resources, including United States military personnel. How do we explain such different responses to these tragedies of entrapment? The mainstream media and Americans at large hold different visions of who these children are. They have national, racial, and ethnic identities that influence wha…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…the culture. Otherwise, we faithful won’t be moved to apply our beliefs in search of a common good. 3. Check the literacy level. I once edited a theologian’s commentary that tested out at a post-doctoral reading level. Since most U.S. citizens’ reading comprehension has now dropped to between 6th and 8th grade level, how well would the theologian’s essay have been understood in its original form? Fortunately, there are plenty of online resources t…

Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right

By Brad Stoddard

…early always men—who commit mass shootings (defined by the Congressional Research Service as involving four or more victims) increasingly prefer AR-15-style firearms, including the shooters who killed 58 people in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, who killed 26 people in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and who killed 26 people in the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Church in Texas. AR-15s aren’t just popular rifles for people who comm…

D’Souza: ‘Traditional Values’ for You, Freedom to Follow my Heart for Me

By Peter Montgomery

…h too much delving into D’Souza’s writing, but here, courtesy of Amazon’s “search inside” function, are a few excerpts on marriage and morality from his book, What’s So Great About Christianity: “…abortion, adultery, and homosexual marriage, can be largely understood as a clash between traditional morality and secular morality.” (page 252) “As fallible human beings we can be wrong about a lot of things but we cannot be wrong in how we feel about s…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…evidence of illegal activity, an ATF agent wrote an affidavit to obtain a search warrant in which it was alleged that the Branch Davidians were a “cult” that abused children (although matters of child abuse do not fall within the jurisdiction of the ATF). ATF agents attempted to carry out a “no-knock” “dynamic entry” on February 28, 1993, which turned into a shootout that resulted in the deaths of six Branch Davidians and four ATF agents. As soon…