Welcome back to our series on the relationship between Christianity and masculinity, which aims to explore the historical and cultural factors that have made women statistically more likely to be committed to the religion than men. In our last post, we weighed one of the more popular explanations for this gender gap: that the theology, […]
Why racial justice and reconciliation are now core for the movement. Evangelicals are sensitive to what we call “God moments”—when circumstances fall together in a way that suggests God is at work in our lives in a fresh way. Mainstream white evangelicals have experienced collective “God moments.” In the 1970s, few churches concerned themselves with […]
A federal judge has put a temporary halt to the Obama administration’s order on transgender bathroom use in public school:Texas and a dozen other states sued in an attempt to block the feder Source: Exodus From Public Schooling | The American Conservative
In a profile of Hillary Clinton’s religious life, America Magazine, a “national weekly Catholic magazine,” says Mrs. Clinton is a “lifelong Methodist who has learned to keep her personal beliefs hidden.” Unfortunately for Methodists and Mrs. Clinton alike, her state religious beliefs also contradict her abortion agenda. Source: Hillary Clinton’s Religion Contradicts Her Abortion Stance
Wyoming Supreme Court hears the case of Ruth Neely, a small-town magistrate targeted for her faith The Wyoming Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case that could set a chilling precedent throughout the state’s judiciary. The Wyoming Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics has asked the high court to remove Judge Ruth Neely, […]
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met key spiritual mentors early in life who informed their thinking—and could influence the nation For first-time college students, here’s a historical reality worth pondering: When Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton entered Wellesley College in the fall of 1965, she was an active member of the Young Republicans and a […]
New synagogue ruins recently discovered at a site called Tel Rechesh, near to Mount Tabor in the Nahal Tavor Nature Reserve in lower Galilee lend further weight to the belief that Jesus Christ taught in villages around Galilee during his lifetime here on earth. Source: Synagogue ruins in Israel lend further credibility to New Testament […]
“It is not true, as is sometimes said, that man can organize the world without God. What is true is that, without God, he can ultimately only organize it against man. Exclusive humanism is inhuman humanism.” ∼ Henri de Lubac, The Drama of Atheist Humanism “If God does not exist … everything is permitted.” ∼ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, […]
If Christianity needs interpreters to make it sensible to a post-Christian, materialistic west, could Francis Schaeffer be a good model for us? Source: Francis Schaeffer and Christian Intellectualism
Shane Claiborne claims a Christian obligation to reject capital punishment, but his reasoning conflicts with biblical justifications for the death penalty. Source: Actually Shane Claiborne, Christians Should Support Capital Punishment – Juicy Ecumenism
