There’s a long history of disability serving only as an opportunity for non-disabled people to demonstrate their piety through service, a “charity model” that ultimately still promotes otherness and exclusion.
Did Richard Dawkins hand creationists their next school strategy?
The idea that Darwinism leads one to atheism informs much of the so-called “conflict” of science and religion. The facts are simply not on its side. Nonetheless it serves as a point of consensus to attack a range of interpretations.
American Muslims send a powerful message of solidarity to Orlando victims
The American Muslim community reacted with an outpouring of love and support. The violence also sparked a debate within the community about whether Muslim leaders need to speak out more forcefully against homophobic ideologies.
Post-Orlando, Trump reveals his soul
Trump’s definition of strength is a crude domination. He’s not satisfied with simply calling for indiscriminate bombing and torture against organizations like ISIS; he wants to ban all Muslims, even refugees, from entering the United States.
Why some evangelicals changed their minds about evolution
A new book promotes the idea that one can be serious about Christian faith and still accept a scientific Darwinian account of human origins.
Evangelical conference gives Trump stamp of approval
Donald Trump received a nearly minute-long standing ovation at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington on Friday and was presented to the audience as the principled choice for Christian voters in the general election.
Is ‘The Conjuring 2’ the Evangelical horror hit of the year?
We do not think of evangelical moviegoers as seekers out of grisly, flesh-ripping horror. But maybe we should, given that the most popular faith-based drama of the summer season so far is “The Conjuring 2.”
Staring down the elephant
How are Christians to respond to the politics of division and polarization?
Washington National Cathedral to remove Confederate battle flags from its windows
Washington National Cathedral has announced it will remove Confederate battle flags that are part of two large stained-glass windows honoring Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.