Our Last “Genius” Stephen Hawking is Gone… Cause for Worry Or Inspiration?
Our last genius, Stephen Hawking, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Cambridge, England…
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With the Death of One of the Last Three Shakers, an American Religious Tradition Takes a Step Closer to Extinction
For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.
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Right Wing Suspicion of Experts is Martin Luther’s Fault
One hopes that we can together strike a wise balance between suspicion and deference with respect to expertise.
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Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation
Today we have the same fossilization of institutional religion, only this time it is us Protestants.
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Pew Confirms LGBT Rejection of Religion: Why That’s a Good Thing
When a book such as Matthew Vines’ God and the Gay Christian becomes a smash hit…
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ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”
On August 10th 1566 an enraged crowd of Huguenots burst into the Chapel of St….
Read MoreMarriage is Not a Sacrament for Protestants and Why that Matters to LGBT Christians
Recently, well meaning Episcopal clergy and lay leaders have been urging the church to “extend the sacrament…
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Reformation England Looms Over Contraception Debate
St. Thomas More vs. the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?
Benedict urges Catholic priests to use digital tech to teach and to evangelize, but the Holy Father may be underestimating the power of the non-hierarchical ethos of social media. Here’s hoping we might actually see a Vatican 2.0.
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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture
Revealing why citing “chapter and verse” once had no meaning, why 16th century Catholics capitalized “Word” but not “God,” and why the King James Bible is anti-Puritan, Lori Anne Ferrell’s new book reminds us that everything is historical: the Christian religion, the Christian people, the Christian book.
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