A new survey shows that white evangelicals are much more willing now than they were a few years ago to vote for politicians whose personal behavior has been “immoral.” Source: POLL: White Evangelicals Have Grown More OK With Politicians Who Commit ‘Immoral’ Acts : NPR
Heal Us, Emmanuel initiates the process of racial reconciliation and unity within the church, with biblical confession, repentance & Christ-like forgiveness Source: Review: Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church – Juicy Ecumenism
The election of either candidate may be evidence of God’s judgment. But what if the fact that we’re faced with this horrible choice is already our call to repentance? Source: The Gift of God’s Judgment | Desiring God
(RNS) It is way past time to reject the idea that the abortion debate is a ‘life vs. choice’ binary. Let’s allow some complexity and nuance to emerge. Source: How the last debate added to our hopelessly incoherent discourse on abortion | Religion News Service
Last night I posted on a report that the Society of Biblical Literature is banning InterVarsity Press from displaying books at its forthcoming meeting. This morning I learned about a joint stateme… Source: InterVarsity Press and Society of Biblical Literature Issue a Joint Statement | the way of improvement leads home
The ascent of Donald Trump has exposed a number of problems that have existed for some time in white evangelicalism but are only now being seen clearly. Source: 7 Theses on Evangelicalism After Donald Trump | Mere Orthodoxy
If You Don’t Like Either Candidate, Then Vote for Trump’s Policies – Wayne Grudem: Sudden media attentionAfter I saw the shocking 2005 video with .10/19/2016 14:10:42PM EST. Source: If You Don’t Like Either Candidate, Then Vote for Trump’s Policies – Wayne Grudem
Some Catholics have abandoned philosophy as a central component of the church’s discourse. Source: Contemporary philosophy has a problem: theology | America Magazine
The release of an explosive 2005 videotape in which Trump spoke in crude and sexually aggressive terms about women have only deepened fissures among cultural conservatives. So have the accounts of a number of women who said last week that Trump assaulted them in the past, allegations Trump denies. Source: A Christian conservative backlash against […]
Can social conservatives survive Donald Trump? Source: In Defense of the Religious Right – The New York Times
