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The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…e of someone most thoughtful people would not invite to a cocktail party demonstrated a lack of emotional intelligence when it comes to understanding history and the changing sensibilities of his own flock. The Vatican has not only felt the need to respond to the secular challenges related to this story through an atypical press statement; moreover, it has also come under pressure to clarify Benedict’s own position on Vatican II. Consequently, the…

Pastor Convicted in Lisa Miller Child Kidnapping Case

By Peter Montgomery

…d that as he drove home from the border, Mr. Zodhiates tried to call a cellphone number registered to Liberty Counsel, an evangelical legal group. That cellphone number has sometimes been used by Mathew D. Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, dean of the Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Va., and a leader of Ms. Miller’s defense team. The RICO filed by Jenkins includes information that RD readers learned last year from Sarah Posner’s…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…History shows that Darwinists can believe in God. By definition, science seeks naturalistic explanations for physical phenomena. It does not study the supernatural. More modesty is needed all around. Last time I checked, that was a virtue in both science and religion….

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…facilitated the letter’s sale, confirming the murders had more to do with Mormonism than money. Hofmann survived with critical injuries from the explosion, only to later become the prime suspect behind all three devices. Then, over the course of the next year, tedious investigations concluded that not only was Hofmann a cold-blooded killer, but also the most successful forger in American history, having sold dozens of fake documents to a number o…

How Religion Shapes (or Doesn’t) Our Views on Public Issues

By Daniel Schultz

…almost. Eighty-two percent of those who say it should be illegal in all or most cases cite their faith. But just 26% say religion is most influential, despite nearly two-thirds of respondents saying that they’d heard their leaders speak on the subject. So apparently they’re getting the message—-and ignoring it. Which brings us to the political implications. They’re pretty simple. First: multiply .18 by .26. That should give you (digging for iTouch…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…ecifically threatened by ISIS in the recent past, and as such feel perhaps more acutely than most the urgency of these issues. Twitter is tackling solvable problems where they can. I believe that as a culture we need to approach this issue on two fronts: we must continue the practical, on-the-ground conversation of how to remove illegal, hateful, or violent speech from social media quickly and at scale, while continuing to consider why this is don…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…ial to its misuse of German texts (a language Metaxas doesn’t speak). But among the most scathing criticisms were those who argued that Metaxas’s portrait of Bonhoeffer is essentially that of a neoconservative evangelical. Richard Weikart called it “counterfeit,” and “sanitized,” while Clifford Green concludes that a better title for the book might have been “Bonhoeffer Hijacked.” Metaxas’s book went on to be a New York Times Best Seller, which su…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…st the money, wasting their talents. But some had invested wisely and made more money. So the returning ruler rewarded those who had invested wisely and maximized their talents and used them for greater good. For fundamentalists and evangelicals, the point here is that God has given them talents. He’s gone away, he’s coming back, he’s coming back soon, and he’s going to ask what you’ve done with your talents. Jesus ended the parable by instructing…

Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…sexual issue in the black church. Creeping preachers, stunted sexuality, homophobia, and sexual abuse are competing for issue number one in their churches; at many, they are tied at the number one slot. It is high time to for the leaders of the black church to ‘put away childish things’ and to engage in a real conversation about sexuality, same-sex marriage, and the homophobia embedded in the black church community. Pontificating and posturing pro…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…cumented.” What the Phelpses hate most according to Sweeting, perhaps even more than homosexuals, is when no one pays attention. “When even their best insults get ignored, that’s hard for them to deal with.” Confrontation does no good. The Phelpses aren’t winning converts, nor are they open to ideas other than their own. While he has no trepidation about them, Sweeting questions their sanity, particularly their trademark funeral pickets. Those pic…