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Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…ropologically speaking, the gusto was taken out of that claim for origins. Mostly because when I discussed this amongst Muslims of generations, even my friends, I was surprised how many determined that by this fact of ancestral anthropology alone, then I was really Muslim. As one friend put it, “You are really one of us.” So I take another approach (no surprises there). I reason that if the prophet was already 40 years old before he received the f…

RDPulpit: I Am Not A Number: Gays and Lesbians and Opinion Polls

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ke my life, along with the lives of all the other LGBT statistics, are the most polled about. It seems every other week another poll comes out asking real live people about our theoretical lives. Honestly, I’m sick of it. Stop asking others about my life. Start asking me about my life. Start asking gay and lesbian people about the reality of their lives. Talk to Janice Langbehn, who was denied access to her dying partner, Lisa Pond, in a Florida h…

Paul the Pluralist: Jesus’ Number Two Was Not a Christian

By Pamela Eisenbaum

…nd Christianity are antithetical religions, with Judaism being the bad and most primitive kind and Christianity being the good and most evolved form. Thus, built into the supposedly Pauline idea of “justification by faith” is an implicit anti-Judaism—a big problem for the Protestant theology that is founded on this reading. The New Perspective emerged largely to address this issue. In contrast to the traditional interpretation, this new reading ar…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…oo deeply into Cosper’s background to get a sense of why he may not be the most reliable narrator for this particular story. The podcast works the listener like Driscoll worked a crowd Cosper was a worship leader at Sojourn, a church in Louisville, Kentucky, which adopted the same Christian counter-cultural style and GenX-indie atmosphere as Mars Hill, went multi-site, and was affiliated with the church planting network that Driscoll co-founded, A…

Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that all things sexual continue to occupy the minds of those who seem the most opposed to anyone actually having sex. It’s interesting to view the “value voter” summit in juxtaposition with a new survey conducted by the Des Moines Register. In a surprising move last April, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage. Since then, gays and lesbians have been allowed to marry and set up households in the state as legally wed c…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…of him. Both numbers are much lower than any other segment. Furthermore, almo*]}*st the identical number of Republicans and White evangelicals believe Trump champions their beliefs and have a favorable opinion of him. Given that, it’s easy to see who makes up Trump’s political base. So let’s assume that White evangelicals don’t think much of Trump’s personal piety. But they do trust him to advocate for them and their beliefs. Perhaps understanding mor…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…ceptions, are constructed and maintained outside of Christian communities. Most often, when Christians develop an argument of limited approval of condom use, those arguments generally advocate accommodation: “We Christians will agree that condoms should be used so that the spread of HIV might be slowed.” In these arguments, the rhetoric does not imply that condoms are things that Christians ourselves might use but are things that Christians could…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…y brown, Muslim, American terrorists. But don’t you find your role in this most recent ad from Lowe’s truly objectionable? Here you are destroying the world’s natural resources to drive around town, and turn on an obscene number of lights. Doesn’t this offend your morality? Or do you truly have no shame? PC: Riz gets to play all kinds of roles. I just play fat Indian guys. In fact, for my part in the Lowe’s ad, I was given food to eat between take…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…al or moral concerns about pornography, public policy ought to rely on the most reputable evidence possible. What’s more, Utah’s declaration fails to address the high rates of porn use among the conservative and religious, despite the state being something of a poster child for the phenomenon. What follows is an excerpt from my book, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know, which presents reliable information about a variety of contr…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…were the “new” and “chaotic” inflationary scenarios in the 1980s, and the most recent has been the “landscape” of string theory, which emerged in the early 2000s. Since then, a host of rival multiverse scenarios have emerged, as well. In each case, the proponents have been ridiculed and dismissed, but with diminishing levels of rancor with each passing decade. What we’re witnessing right now is a reconfigured repetition of a 2500-year debate over…