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The Perry v. Bachmann Primary at Liberty Unversity

By Sarah Posner

…o attended will allow God to use their spiritual ability and leadership to help point the church and nation toward the will of God. Believers must become visible demonstrations of the faith and actively help determine national direction. Those in attendance expressed deep concern about the present direction of our country. Our trust must be in God and we need guidance from Divine Providence. For anyone who has watched the religious right since the…

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

By Daniel Silliman

…p the voters that gave Republicans both house of congress, but it wouldn’t help those Republicans to help those voters quite that much. Taking the cynical view, the Republicans would seem to be better off keeping the toothless law that offends a little bit without actually keeping churches out of politics. Especially since removing that offense would only give Walter Jones, Jr. a legislative victory. Which is why, come January 2017, one of the ver…

Double Helix: The Roger Clemens Question

By Arri Eisen

…es tired (calcium channel leakage) and soon will test drugs to see if they help prevent heart attacks (hearts are, after all, just big muscles). But you can also imagine that people might want to use the same drugs for other activities. I’m wondering if this no-man’s land we’ve created for ourselves—the one from which Clemens is talking this week—is typical of the natural evolution of society struggling with complex issues, society creating itself…

Meet the New Haggards—Same as the Old Haggards?

By Kathryn Joyce

…often have affairs with coworkers because they “are drawn to the women who help them do their task.” The warning applied little to Gayle, who had dropped out of Oral Roberts University to “support a man of God” like Ted, and worked at his side for years as a nationally-recognized evangelical women’s figure, running New Life’s women’s ministry teaching students to be better wives. Yet when Ted fell, fellow megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll took the o…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…: Sudden boost in revenue at grocery stores anywhere Muslims live in large numbers. Hint: If you think buying food while you’re hungry can help the economy, grocery shopping in Ramadan could save the Eurozone and prevent a Grexit. Suhouri: Suhur: Meal you eat right before the fast begins. Houri: Shatteringly beautiful, apparently human but not actually human companion provided to you in paradise, assuming you make it there. You don’t like the fact…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…November 2016 I wanted to tell a new story, a theological story that could help people begin to understand how some of the complexities of race and gender are theological problems that are connected to fundamental questions of how God created us and how we account for what seems so broken in the world. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? The most important take-home message is that our bodies are essential to what it means to…

Satanic or Systemic? Promise Keepers Are Back and Looking to End Racism Via ‘Trickle-Down Racial Reconciliation’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…of Southern Baptist Convention of Texas, and megachurch pastor Tony Evans, help steer the direction of the organization. Promise Keeper and former NFL coach Tony Dungy’s comments during the George Floyd protest also illuminate the inherent problem in Promise Keepers’ approach to racial reconciliation: “Today we are a divided country. We’re divided racially, politically, and socio-economically. And Satan is laughing at us because that is exactly wh…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…that’s needed. Money moves at the speed of electrons: far faster — and far cheaper — than anything that can be loaded onto a semi-trailer. Due to economies of scale — not to mention price breaks wholesalers extend to charities — there’s more bang to every buck contributed directly to a house of worship or relief agency than there is in using the same greenback to buy dog food or diapers. The cost of transportation must always be factored in. Besid…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r people to help Christians perceive the queerness in Christian ethics and help us walk it better. For LGBT people in church, our queerness forced us both to figure out what we believe, and why we believe it. We’ve been forced to create a queer ethic where none existed before. I’ll use your own book as a point of reference again, Candace. You talk about developing a bulletproof faith—which has everything to do with spiritual survival. Yet one of t…

LDS Church Responds to South Park Mormon Musical

By Joanna Brooks

…ot as caricatures but as good-natured human beings who really just want to help. “It will be fascinating to see how the LDS Church and its members react,” I wrote. “When Jon Krakauer’s ill-conceived Under the Banner of Heaven appeared, the Church answered with a long, defensive, citation-heavy press release. These days, I’m betting that the Church’s extremely savvy digital media folks will find a way to make most of the traffic the show will gener…