God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines
Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion
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A Long History of Blaming the Jews
“Antisemitism” is a problematic term. Of course we know what it means—prejudice against or hatred…
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Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation
American Christians assume that what prophecy does is predict specific events to happen. And of course that’s the way the Book of Revelation has been read. They read it, as you say, as predicting this means this, or the beast is this. But prophesy, as we know, is a highly interpretative art, and the way this book lives and has lived for two thousand years is by interpretation and reinterpretation.
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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
Read MorePolling Place as Sacred Ground
In the words of Jon Stewart: “You go, and then I’ll go…”
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St. Paul the Pacifist: A Christian Response to Torture
In light of a recent finding that evangelical Christians are more likely, statistically, to support the use of torture, a scholar proposes an approach to nonviolence based on the teaching of Christianity’s first theologian.
Read MoreMan-made Breasts, Or, Grace in Graceless Times
When we judge people by their past mistakes we lose our own moral ground; we are all in need of repentance and grace.
Read MorePaul and the Pope
The Vatican is focusing a lot recently on Paul’s teaching on celibacy. But there are other ways of interpreting Paul, and not all of them are sex-negative.
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