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From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth

By Gustavo Maya

…think we know God’s will but are later surprised to discover that we were wrong. Christians holding something like Dreher’s metaphysical, anthropological, and moral views argued in favor of empire, slavery, and white supremacy. They thought there was a divinely-ordained order to creation and that they had infallible access to it. They were wrong. None of this means that Dreher holds these views, but it does mean that a longer view of the traditio…

If Music is Haram, then Allah Made a Mistake

By Amina Wadud

…to sound musical. But here is something to ponder where God must have gone wrong; equally wrong with Allah’s creation. Have you ever stopped to wonder how Beethoven could compose such exquisite symphonies but you or I can barely hum in tune? That’s where God went wrong, clearly. For any one human being to be capable of making such stupendous compositions—well, that either has to be a mistake, or a stroke of genius. Nope, I don’t think God made a m…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…ells Smith, “you’ve got to get mad when you see folks do what you think is wrong.” But she could not do that. After Smith lays bare the history of racism in America, the camper concludes by getting to the crux of her fears: “I guess . . . if you hated your family, it would be easier to fight for what is right, down here. It would be easier if you didn’t care how much you hurt them.” The camper embodies the impact of Christian nationalism on the ch…

‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy

By Sara Williams

…at the evidence. The title of Harris’ 2017 TEDx talk “Strong Enough to be Wrong” draws on tropes that to admit error is a weak, feminine trait. It attempts to rebrand admission of error as acceptably masculine by mapping the language of strength onto it. This brand remained at the center of Harris’ 2018 “apology tour” documentary, I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye, which forefronts his own struggles rather than the struggles of those he harmed….

“Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy” (Unless You’re Gay)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…GAN: When you see civil partnerships being sanctioned. Do you think that’s wrong? OSTEEN: Yes, I think it’s wrong, but I’m not going to bash those people. I’m not going to be against those people. They’re good people. I say it’s wrong because that’s what the scripture says. I choose to live my life by what I read in the scripture. MORGAN: Say a friend of mine like Elton John watching this at home, who with his partner—a civil partner, David Furni…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…s. That is a place Mr. Cain surely does not want to be. George, though, is wrong about what Coakley said. She did not say devout Catholics should not work in emergency rooms. Media Matters documented how this myth about Coakley’s alleged anti-Catholic sentiment arose: Fox Nation and Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft have seized on comments made by Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley during a January 14 radio interview to falsely…

The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…han the Grammys, but at any rate it’s hedonism on the grandest scale. It’s wrong on so many levels but I can’t put my finger on it. It’s connected to Pfizer who clearly endorsed this. It’s somehow normalizing Satan worship. It’s… “gory.” I don’t have “grand children” but if I did, I wouldn’t want “these people” to be their role models. All of these things combined seem vaguely like causes for concern, I guess. You got me. I’m scared. But what real…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…, saying that it was a signal to young Singaporeans that there was nothing wrong with homosexuality. Han reports that even other human rights activists are worried to address SOGIE issues because they fear it might harm their own work within ASEAN and its institutions. South Korea: Christian Surgeon Overcomes Religious Resistance to Sex Reassignment Surgery Hyung-Jim Kim’s Associated Press profile of Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun, a devout Protestant, begins…

Photo of a Dying Man: The Journalist’s Job

By Jason Anthony

…s to save a life, he wasn’t wrong to take the picture and the Post was not wrong to publish it. What they committed together was nothing more than an act of journalism—if a particularly tasteless, uncomfortable kind of journalism. He was as right in doing his job as Legree was in doing his. If there’s fault here, it’s with the whole perilous enterprise of journalism itself. For the record, Abassi vigorously contests any shade of moral wrongdoing i…

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

By Jay Michaelson

…e I can relate to, as can anyone who’s fallen in love with someone of the “wrong” gender, religion, or ethnic background. It’s actually a moment of religious maturity. But there’s a certainty and a zeal to Norris’ ideological presumption that I actually found scary. Personally, my deciding that the way I love “just can’t be wrong” came at the end of lots of godwrestling, discernment, and pain. I’m not saying everyone should go through what I went…