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The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…their lives by taking her on a field trip to an impoverished, largely African-American neighborhood where her dead lover, Gregory, used to live, Paige confronts her parents. “I’ve felt it for a long time now, and I thought it was me. I thought I was crazy,” Paige says as the trio is seated around the kitchen table. “But it’s not me. It’s you. And I talked to Pastor Tim, and he agrees. I need to know the truth. I don’t care what it is, but if you…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…Israel scheduled for this fall, Perkins described it as a “unique, one-of-a kind tour,” giving participants the opportunity to “explore the land of the Bible and the roots of our Christian faith.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Senator Rick Santorum, both Republican presidential candidates, will accompany the tour, as will Fox News’ Todd Starnes. The trip, Perkins writes, will allow travelers to see “the spiritual roots of Christianit…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…ed exactly one month later. As Garcia strummed his guitar, Lesh (on lead vocals) sang the closing lyrics: “Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.” Indeed. What I didn’t know at the time was the story behind “Box of Rain.” That took me another quarter-century to learn (last week). I’ll let Phil and lyricist Robert Hunter tell it. How many times had I heard “Box of Rain” and simply thought, when I gave it much thought at al…

The Devil Stole Rod Parsley’s Money

By Sarah Posner

…erate. The investigation apparently is stalled at this point, given health care reform and financial industry catastrophes (not to mention the presidential campaign, during which no one would dare question the integrity of “good” Christians). Financially, Parsley is small potatoes compared to Copeland and some of the other powerhouses (all heirs, as Anthea Butler points out in her remembrance, to Oral Roberts’ legacy). And perhaps his ministry is…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…ption will help parents to keep their children faithful. Given the statistical number of Nones among Millennials and Gen X and the seemingly unpreventable increase in those numbers, these children, like Emily, or the children of many homeschooling parents, will eventually encounter peers who are not religiously affiliated. Given the way technology works, they will also inevitably find a way to expose themselves to popular culture. And the question…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ate, treatments aiming to suppress sexual orientation or gender expression can cause serious damage, or even be deadly. His own research, however, has essentially been deemed junk science by those who aren’t committed to an anti-LGBTQ agenda. A pair of Danish scholars, for example, called his publication on suicide rates among those who submit to “change efforts” (aka conversion therapy) “egregiously problematic.” In addition to methodological iss…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…y by Western Muslims. Muslims born and in generations of Islam anthropologically don’t really care as much how the newbies identify. Besides, once I learned that my slave ancestors on my mother’s side were Muslims, anthropologically 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 anth…

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

…s who consider themselves the gatekeepers of “biblical” authority). The podcast’s catchy opening tune and priming of mood through narrative hooks works the crowd in the way that Driscoll did, creating a buzz out of controversy to the extent that it loses sight of its purported aim—healthy, substantive change in evangelical church culture and practices. Such transformation would require more truth-telling on the part of the enablers, apologists, an…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…icans who want to hear candidates talk about their religion. On the Republican side, candidates could view this finding, along with the dissatisfaction among white evangelicals with the GOP’s advocacy on same-sex marriage and other issues as demanding even more religious fervor to win over crucial primary voters. That process, unsurprisingly, is already in motion. The GOP’s Director of Faith Engagement, Chad Connelly, told CBN’s David Brody last m…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…are significant members with our mourning energies. Clearly, for a significant number of people, Kobe Bryant exemplified the ethos of America with his Mamba mentality that was centered on being better, stronger, more dominant, and ruthless at competing. Even fans of opposing teams recognize something tremendous about Bryant’s abilities, including in his last game when he led the Lakers comeback victory over the Utah Jazz, becoming in the process…