Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing
The Southern Baptist Convention stole headlines from the Vatican this season when the nation’s largest…
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Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of…
Read MoreMega-Church and State Separation? Not in an Election Year
David Eagle reports in The Christian Century what many small-church pastors have known for a…
Read MoreRick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution
Then digs in… then apologizes. Mostly.
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Rick Warren, Is That All the Courage You Can Muster?
Warren doesn’t seem quite as persistent in condemning Uganda’s anti-gay bill as he does in building his image.
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Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence
Although Rick Warren’s Saddleback church teaches women that physical abuse is not grounds for divorce, there is a growing literature for evangelical women—by their peers—that shows women how to get out of an abusive marriage, while remaining in the church.
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Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback
The proper role of government is to punish evildoers, Pastor Rick Warren tells Sean Hannity. If the Rev’s read is to be believed, the United States is in deep trouble.
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RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy
His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.
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Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service
Barack Obama and John McCain will share a stage for the first time this August. Their host? Rick Warren, megachurch pastor and bestselling author—and a man with undeniable political influence.
Read MoreResponse: What Black Prophetic Politics?
A colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills’ recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music…
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