The man who wrote those words was surely, at some fundamental, essential level, wrong about the meaning of the good news and of salvation. And yet today, in 2014, the white evangelical understanding of good news and salvation is still shaped and bounded by the model and teachings of the man who wrote that passage. That's a problem. Read more
A few things, including: Nicolae Carpathia plays a role in Iowa's Senate race. The death of a master craftsman. Eshet chayil: Saba Ahmed speaks out, Teresa Fitzgerald reaches out. Infant baptism on the rise in the SBC. Jody Williams double-dog dares you. Thus, Calvinism. Read more
Dr. Jen Gunter responds to the odious George Will; Marika Rose on women in systematic theology; Richard Burridge on those evil, unbiblical abolitionists; Danny Cortez won't lead a church that won't accept his son; and more from Joyce Arthur. Read more
A few things, including: American evangelicals team up with Brazilian sex-workers at the World Cup. Other people are part of reality, and forgetting that makes you stupid. Talking out loud with Marion's librarian. The fine line between stupid and clever. Read more
To all the fathers out there, here's hoping you have a much better Father's Day than the one I expect Tywin Lannister will be having this evening. And here's hoping you'll be a much better father ... Read more
This popular bit of folk-"wisdom" stunts and reduces prayer to a series of Yes or No questions. Those are the rules for panelists on What's My Line? But that isn't what prayer means. Prayer certainly can include requests that might be the sort of thing that could be responded to with a yes or a no, but that's at most a tiny fraction of what Christians and Jews mean when we speak of prayer. Read more
"But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless." Read more
Leadership Journal is decidedly and determinedly an institution at the heart of white evangelical institutionalism. That's not an arena where the voices of women are usually able to make themselves heard. Especially not young women (and "young," in Christianity Today terms, means anybody under 50). And not young women who don't have a market or media platform or any formal, institutional support. And most especially not young women who ask too many questions, or who are too vocally critical of white evangelical purity culture, or who do not have the proper Official Stance opposing LGBT people and feminism. Read more
The premier magazine for white evangelical clergy is facing powerful criticism for its decision to publish the self-justifying rationalizations of a sexual predator, and for presenting ministry to such former ministers as the No. 1 priority when dealing with sexual abuse by clergy. In doing so, Christianity Today seemed to share, and to reinforce, the abuser's disregard for his victims. Read more
Just before midnight. Somewhere in America. ... Read more
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