Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point
That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical…
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Andraé Crouch, “The Greatest Hymn Writer of Our Age,” Dies at 72
Andraé Crouch, the incomparable songwriter, gospel singer and preacher, died in Los Angeles on January 9, 2015 of a…
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Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham
Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment.
Read MoreThe Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012
Women in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity.
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Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make
In the process of doing all they could to defeat Obama, self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals discredited their message and reduced it to a mere political gospel.
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Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church
Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.
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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)
As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.
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Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel
Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
Read MoreDid Billy Graham Really Tell Romney He’d ‘Help’?
It’s being widely reported, but there’s just one problem… okay, two. There are at least two problems…
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Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion
In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion.
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