Christianity’s Greatest Counterfeit
Like it or not, the Republicans in Congress are now a kind of congregation, a reality of church, a particular church, but still a church. Inescapably, now they present a Christianity in total power.
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“Progressive” Religion or Just Religion?
Last week HuffPo Religion‘s executive editor Paul Raushenbush wrote about a “stunning resurgence” of progressive Christianity….
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“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set
In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan [i.e., Muslim] Gospel, never before…
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God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines
Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion
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Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About
The Flood story forces us to grapple with the deeply impersonal forces of the universe that are set against human civilization.
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Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology
Individual and group understandings of their ontological positions are ignored to everyone’s peril when we relegate theology to historical study.
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Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?
Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true…
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Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’
“The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.'”
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What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?
American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
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A Long History of Blaming the Jews
“Antisemitism” is a problematic term. Of course we know what it means—prejudice against or hatred…
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