OK, a bit more about the End of the Spear "controversy." Some evangelical Christians — including the producers of the film itself — are upset to learn that a homosexual actor, Chad Allen, has been cast in a movie about evangelical missionaries. This is a bizarre thing to get upset about. They didn't hire Allen [...]

Steve Gushee of The Palm Beach Post reminds us that Saturday was the Feast Day of St. Cornelius. So in honor of Cornelius the Centurion, here's a golden oldie from the Slacktivist archives: "The Abominable Shellfish: Why some Christians hate gays but love bacon" Gushee tiptoes a bit, but he understands the point of the [...]

This kind of creepy Newsweek article offers further evidence that many evangelicals, like many Americans, have lost the map and are more interested in winning the argument than in seeking the truth. "Ye shall learn debate tactics and rhetorical strategems, and the tactics and strategems shall set you free." But I'm linking here mainly because [...]

"This isn't your father's Moral Majority" Bob Kemper writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: All across the country, conservative evangelicals are re-evaluating what it means to be a Christian and their soul searching, evangelical leaders and scholars say, has the potential to fundamentally reorder the federal government's priorities and trigger seismic shifts in the Republican and [...]

Weighing in on some old news here — Eamon Javers of BusinessWeek reports that columnist and former senior fellow at the Cato Institute Doug Bandow: … accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing op-ed articles favorable to the positions of some of Abramoff's clients. Doug Bandow, who writes a syndicated column for [...]

"Marriage Is Money in the Bank" writes Kim Trobee of Focus on the Family, pouncing on the study mentioned below. You there, the single mom struggling to make rent, you want to know why you're poor? It's your fault. You rejected traditional profamily values and got divorced. You brought this on yourself. Let me be [...]

I've often theorized here that homosexuality gets singled out for such fervent condemnation by many religious conservatives because it's the safest target. Condemning anything as a sin is a dangerous business. You get up on a soapbox and start railing against envy, sloth, gluttony, greed, wrath, lust or pride and eventually people will begin to [...]