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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Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…
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We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption
Popular theology routinely enables powerful men to rehabilitate their public image after their misconduct goes…
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Three Cheers for Mormon Support of Same-Sex Legislation? Not So Fast
Last week, the LDS Church formally came out in support of the federal Respect for…
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If the Family Research Council is a ‘Church’ I’m a #TaxTheChurches Supporter
Like other authoritarians, right-wing Christians often prefer to minimize transparency in order to avoid accountability….
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Citing Jewish Law, Florida Synagogue Challenges Abortion Ban — But Here’s the Problem With ‘Religious Requirement’ Arguments
Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey,…
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At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?
On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to…
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The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’
I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I…
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Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’
On Sunday, May 22, a third-party investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention…
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It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly…
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