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The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…ions that, regardless of their size, “a focus on one-on-one ministry and a commitment to local communities” are what have helped churches weather the pandemic. However, Hinch fails to shore up his larger argument when he points to the famous Saddleback megachurch’s model of using “small fellowship groups” to “provide the kind of personal contact and accountability otherwise lacking in large, anonymous megachurch services” as if this is a novel app…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…here will be no Easter, there will be no Christmas.” She also defended her committed religious adherence. “Some say Christianity should not come into politics but we’re human beings. If we believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and it’s in this Bible, we should be able to say that,” she said. Participants in a “Straight Lives Matter” rally in Sydney were outnumbered by police and counter-protesters. Meanwhile, ballots have reportedly b…

Teen Births Rise; Can Faith-Based Leaders Help?

By Frances Kissling

…able? These questions and many others are being discussed in the scholarly community, but they need to be discussed with teens who are making decisions about relationships every day. Perhaps the most significant obstacle to this conversation with teens is our reluctance as leaders in faith communities to talk about our own sex lives. We talk about our political history, the marches we went on, what we think about ethics and money, work, occasional…

The Double Life of the War Criminal

By Laurie Patton

…iritual systems and totalitarian political ideologies remain. In trying to come to terms with these uncomfortable facts, many scholars have pointed out the connections between the totalizing view of a grand system of symbols and the allures of a fascist ideology: 1) the sense that the world can be imagined and remade in one’s own image; 2) the sense that the world can be purified with the right methods; 3) the sense that an ideal world is possible…

Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…ner on the second-story house which serves as the church, “GodhatesAmerica.com” and the vandalized garage door with painted over, but still visible, penis and scrotum. Phelps and his church of hate (they’d proudly agree with that description) are the defendants in Snyder v. Phelps, a First Amendment case that will be presented before the US Supreme Court in October. While most readers are no doubt familiar with Phelps and his brand of crazy, the C…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…respectability politics in favor of direct protest, hoping to afflict the comfortable and rattle the complicit. He has also increasingly embraced social media as a tool for changing perspectives, using the #JusticeForJesus hashtag to tweet modern retellings of the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rev. McBride, center Ferguson has taken a fraught place in the American imagination. The small neigh…

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…underlying his call for state and local government officials to refuse to comply with Obergefell. In Johnson’s letter, which he tells AL.com was not directed exclusively at the governor, but “to all public officials,” he writes: Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. If the public officials decide to officially approve of the acts of the wicked, they must logically not protect…

Maddow Confronts Author of Ugandan “Kill the Gays” Bill

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…are doing God’s work, even if it means that people will die. What gives me hope is that, unlike homosexuality, bigotry is a learned behavior that can be unlearned. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Part 2: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

Praying for a Christian Nation on the Fourth

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…find it, that one must cease being something for oneself, that one must become a communal person, a comrade, in order to be a person at all.” Until we know and acknowledge that we are all connected in this world, then we will continue to create what Barth called the “No-Gods” of nation, family, military, and capitalism and set them up as evidence of our “blessings” from God. In reality, our freedom is not found in the social order, but in the ack…

Anti-Gay Crusader Still Not ‘Out’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ed. As the story of all these anti-gay religious right crusaders caught in compromising positions with same-sex partners goes, Rekers, like Haggard and others before him, has entered the “regret” stage, telling Christianity Today: ”I confessed to the Lord and to my family that I was unwise and wrong to hire this travel assistant after knowing him only one month before the trip and not knowing whether he was more than a person raised in a Christian…