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“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

Bill Gothard is intent on defending himself. He’s speaking with me by telephone from the Northwoods Conference Center in Watersmeet, Michigan, where he spends every January “for study and writing and reflecting and fasting.” The controversial 76-year-old evangelist wants to explain away the “distortions” of his critics, and why, he insists, that widely-discussed “Taliban Dan” ad had it all wrong. In the ad (run last fall by congressional candidat…

Sunni Leader Breaks Dialogue With the Vatican Over Pope’s Comments

By Amir Hussain

…har carries tremendous authority and respect in the Sunni Muslim world. On January 20, the current Shaikh al-Azhar, Ahmed El-Tayyib, announced that Al-Azhar was “suspending” dialogue with the Vatican due to comments made by Pope Benedict XVI about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. Shaikh El-Tayyib is a good and decent man. I met him in 2009 at a conference on dialogue that he organized at Al-Azhar. At the time, he was the Rector, a…

Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

On January 24, 2011 the Indigenous people of Mexico and neighboring Guatemala lost one of their greatest advocates in Bishop Samuel García Ruiz. For over 40 years Bishop Ruiz accompanied and struggled alongside of Mayans in the Chiapas region, promoting his message of nonviolence and the full humanity of indigenous peoples. His advocacy for the indigenous not only made him a controversial figure among the wealthy Mexican landowners in Chiapas and…

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…have been able to offer much insight into a document released last week, a numbered list that Chad sent to Lori in January 2019 entitled, “Seven missions to accomplish together,” which reveals how their beliefs relate to this larger movement. The list as it appears in the document is as follows: Translate ancient records Write the book about the translation process Identify locations in northeast Arizona for white camps Presidency of the Church of…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…s in central Abuja last August and the police headquarters in Kano in late January). But it is too hasty a judgment to see in the mayhem created by this fringe group a movement of more general Islamic radicalism in Nigeria. Two of the country’s most high-profile Muslims have denounced Boko Haram directly: the Muslim governor of the largest state, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, said that Boko Haram doesn’t represent Islam and that “Islam… does not condone…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…tober’s widely-covered lowering of the age for women’s missionary service, January’s release of a new, more theologically rigorous curriculum for Sunday meetings for young women, and Friday’s announcement that women will now hold positions of increased authority in overseeing the Church’s global proselytizing missions—an advance that follows a surge in numbers of women missionaries. Some observers believe that the changes are part of a concerted L…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…ork reveals similar problems. In Who Do You Think You Are? (Thomas Nelson, January 2013), Driscoll used material from an IVP reference book and Dan B. Allender’s Wounded Heart (NavPress, 2008). IVP noted material from this bible commentary improperly appeared without quotation or attribution for the Trial book, and conveyed via email that their statement stands in this case as well. Driscoll also used material from Allender without citation in 200…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…th and for LGBT students at the Gay Christian Network annual conference in January and presented a workshop on these students’ needs and activism at Creating Change, the National LGBTQ Task Force annual conference in February. Professor Bevins’ experience at George Fox is similar to my own very public departure in 2013 from Azusa Pacific University, where I was at one time its chair of theology and philosophy, and taught ministry and theology for…

Nightly News Turns to Bishops About Contraception More Often Than Docs

By Patricia Miller

…e three major networks for any mention of contraception in stories between January 2010 and July 2014. There were 113 segments on contraception during that period. Not surprisingly, the two most featured topics were contraceptive coverage and access, as the period covered the debate about including no-cost contraception in the Affordable Care Act. Government officials or political figures were the most common sources of information for stories, us…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…also known by the nickname Saintodosly, told the Blade during a recent telephone interview from Lagos that Aladekugbe used his brother and six students to set him up. “They had suspected before based on the firm belief that people of same-sex orientation should not be discriminated by the church,” said Sylvester. “That is what I always said to this school and it was at this school that people should not be discriminated. When they asked me, I said…