Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business
Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who’s a “real” Christian and who’s not is something else.
Read Moreromans 13
If We Did Use the Bible to Run the Country…
When Sessions invokes Romans 13 he’s reading the Bible through his white, patriarchal, confederate Christianity that marshaled the same argument using the same passage to defend slavery on the grounds that it was both biblical and lawful.
Read MoreDoes Romans 13 Controversy Call the Adequacy of the Bible Itself Into Question?
Better historical context just compounds the question of the adequacy of this Book, given its wildly divergent ethical uses.
Read MoreThree Questions for Jeff Sessions
It’s never been truer that even the Devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes.
Read MoreIs it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?
In short, Jeff Sessions is a gutless coward, without the courage of his professed religious beliefs; without even a rudimentary moral compass beyond White America Good. Brown America Bad.
Read MoreSessions Casts Cruel Immigration Policy as Part of God’s Plan
To the administration’s creeping authoritarianism let’s add theocracy.
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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway
Yesterday’s shootings at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas were horrific and especially…
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From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”
Over the last 20 years, major American denominations, particularly those with southern origins (such as…
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Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian
Alex Theodoridis, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, conducted a survey last fall…
Read MoreIn Wake of Eric Garner Case, Southern Baptist Leader Rips Racism in the Church
After the failure yesterday of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who…
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