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I watched Donald Trump’s speech the other night to a sweaty crowd in West Bend,…
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“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS
“They believe in some strange religion, not Islam,” a Muslim refugee from the Iraq city…
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Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian
Alex Theodoridis, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, conducted a survey last fall…
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LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?
It’s easier to argue about Jesus and whether he was fully human, fully divine, both or some mixture thereof, instead of doing the dirty work of feeding the poor, etc.
Read MorePro-Gay Christians Breaking Out
Prime Minister’s defense of pro-gay Christian conscience goes viral; new project encourages other Christians to make videos
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Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?
When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”
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An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men
Though Craig is correct that his argument is “simple,” he is wrong to believe that simplicity makes it good. Indeed, the suggestion that terms and concepts are immune to redefinition is simply… false. It demands an unflattering comparison to Rick Santorum, who once stumped around the nation declaring that a “napkin is a napkin.”
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Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done
Christians (understood to mean here heterosexual activist traditionalists) have become identified with actively pursuing the denial of rights and benefits to others that they themselves enjoy. In other words, the “Gospel” has been identified with the cause of self-benefiting social discrimination against a minority group, a losing hand if ever there was one.
Read MoreNBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out
Collins says he takes Jesus’ teachings seriously.
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God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee
“We really need to get rid of Ex-Gay groups. I would like to see Christians, en masse, abandon these groups, to recognize that they don’t work. If they want to help people be celibate because that’s what they believe people are called to do, more power to them, but to tell people they can become straight and torture them psychologically is incredibly wrong.”
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