(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
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
Back in May, when Trump won the Indiana primary, I felt like such a dope. I was actually waiting for someone to tell me what we were going to do. Just days earlier, we’d all stood on the platform together, refusing to get on the Trump Train.Never! we cried. The conductor was crazy, the destination […]
In today’s Washington Post, I write about the WikiLeaks emails exposing the rampant anti-Catholic bigotry that permeates Clinton World. Source: A bishop on the Clinton campaign and anti-Catholic bigotry – AEI | Society and Culture Blog » AEIdeas
Source: Hillary Clinton is for all Americans. Except Christians, conservatives and the unborn. | TheBlaze.com
Religious “liberty” is code for something else entirely. Source: “Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other | Religion Dispatches
Despite the tight race for the presidency between Trump and Clinton, each candidate is drawing a vastly different segment of voters. A new study from Barna indicates just how divergent those segments are—and helps to explain how divided the nation is in its vision for the future. Source: The Faith and Ideology of Trump and […]
Evangelicals, of all people, should not be silent about Donald Trump’s blatant immorality. Source: Speak Truth to Trump | Christianity Today
Joy, an emotion that ranks close to the top in the hierarchy of emotions, is also the least studied. And yet joy is much richer than the feeling of happiness, to which an entire industry is now lucratively devoted. Source: Joy and the Good Life – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Neither the New Testament nor the writings of early Christians support the idea that material wealth is intrinsically evil. Source: On Wealth and the Bible, The First Christians Were Not Like David Bentley Hart | Public Discourse
