“Islam Is Not a Religion”
How not understanding religion undermines political debate.
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Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement
Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent.
Pope Benedict ended his heavily protested visit to England…
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Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera
This week, the world will stop turning; or at least it will for the daytime soap opera “As The World Turns,” which officially ends after 53 years. But if we remember the soap opera solely as a torrid celebration of sexual transgression—or as a frivolous time-waster for bored housewives—we miss understanding something crucial about the relationship between popular culture and morality.
Read MoreGlenn Beck’s Political Theology
The “Restoring Honor” rally may have had a lot of religious talk about freedom and rebirth, but it offered nothing new.
Read MoreGlenn Beck’s Black-Robed Regiment
Hasn’t Christianity always been used to push partisan agendas?
Read MoreWho’s A Real Christian?
You sure about that? Sure enough to be embarrassed when the party invites go out up yonder?
Read MoreIn Defense of Feisal Abdul-Rauf
His opponents are playing Six Degrees of Bin Laden, Sherroding, smearcasting, and other ugly games.
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Dangerous Religion
Throughout US history the perpetrators of religiously-inspired violence have usually been white Protestant men fearful of non-Protestant communities.
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Anne Rice Quits Christians, Still Dates Jesus
or, unfriending Christianity.
Read MoreA Case Of Bullying To Get Special Treatment
It’s not Christian to refuse counseling to gays and lesbians.
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