Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly
How liberal and mainline Christian leaders are reacting to Trump’s election
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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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Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins
“That’s the good news of Christianity for me. It’s not that you can be happy and whole, but rather that life is crap and you don’t know the answers. It’s good news to be freed from the oppression that there’s something that’s going to make it all better.”
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U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”
The irony is that the hire seems a mirror-image mimicking of what conservatives typically allege of the university hiring process: that only liberals/radicals, regardless of scholarly accomplishment, need apply.
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Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren
What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active peacemakers can really claim to be connected to God with any real degree of credibility—a point that should be obvious but isn’t.
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Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era
In 1970 Mark Hatfield delivered the commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary, the nation’s premier neo-evangelical seminary. The senator, “a verbal spellbinder,” dark and “too handsome, almost, for his own good,” according to political observers, cut quite a figure.
Read MoreMark O. Hatfield: A Personal Remembrance
The senator’s passing reminds us that “liberal Republican” wasn’t always an oxymoron.
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Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal
If you haven’t heard of Jonathan Haidt yet, you probably will soon. The social psychologist from the University of Virginia is making quite a media splash. Most recently, he set off a small media storm by calling out his fellow psychologists for unacknowledged liberal bias.
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“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR
National Public Radio may soon be under real assault from Republican lawmakers, if Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’ comments about “liberal Nazis” are any indication. A congressman from Colorado Springs, Doug Lamborn is leading the charge.
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Liberal Defenders of “Mosque” Get it Wrong
That the kindergarten logic of “hear no evil, see no evil” is being used in order to sway public opinion in favor of the Center, but while the success of these maneuvers remains to be seen, its damage is immediately apparent: if Park51 ‘sounds’ nothing like mosque, claims to ‘be’ nothing like a mosque, and, ‘looks’ nothing like a mosque, then, and only then, does it emerge a defensible endeavor within the United States.
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