The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion
The theory that access to the internet will be the undoing of organized religion has resurfaced. But do the data show anything like this?
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‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast
In a recent essay Marcia Pally argues that a generation of “new evangelicals” have “left the right.” But left it for what?
Read MoreWill the Giglio Affair Ruin the Democrats’ Outreach to Evangelicals?
The latest bloggingheads.
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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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Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?
Arkansas’ evangelical culture enabled Wal-Mart to grow without its employees having any power to negotiate for better working conditions. But as it grew to become the world’s largest retailer, it expanded into urban and other areas with markedly different cultures—a transformation that looks to be changing the balance of power.
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On The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
You and I both long for a “new awakening.” The difference is that I believe we did in fact see a new awakening in this election. An awakening to the the need to reject all theocratic language and all theocratic posturing for the sake of authentic religious freedom.
Read MoreThe Great Religious Realignment
Think differently.
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The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”
The Souther Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources refused to stock Rachel Held Evans’ book ostensibly because it contains the word “vagina.” Or is it that a female writer will only be acceptable if she recites SBC rhetoric, fully supports SBC leaders, and knows her place at home and at church?
Read MoreWhy the Culture Wars Aren’t on their Way Out, Despite Rise of “Nones”
But there’s an opportunity for secular politics.
Read MoreWhite Protestants in Decline
Reasons to cheer—and possibly fear.
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