Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, describes the need for “biblical manhood” for “anemic churches.” However, the notion of “biblical manhood” is idolatrous.
Private schools, painful secrets
More than 200 victims. At least 67 private schools in New England — some with faith ties. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.
When Christians fear the wrong things.
There are a lot of things I fear. Like windows without blinds (seriously) and heights. And there are a lot of things I do not fear.
The Great Calvinist Reawakening
According to The New York Times, a Calvinist revival is sweeping through modern American evangelicalism. But the new Calvinist revival—which amounts to a partial shift in theological emphasis and style—is a far cry from the Calvinist revival that burned through the…
Trump victory marks major defeat for Christian Right agenda
Many evangelical Christian leaders, both progressive and conservative, express profound, faith-based opposition to Donald Trump. But the reasons for our opposition mainly differ. This difference is often lost on outside observers.
The real reason the Religious Right opposes trans equality. (It isn’t bathroom predators.)
We are stuck at this unproductive impasse, fixating on bathrooms, arguing about a threat that both sides know is nonexistent.
Ewan McGregor explores the humanness of Jesus
“Daunting” is one word Ewan McGregor used about stepping into the role of Jesus in the new film “Last Days in the Desert.”
What happened to the Jesus People?
Evangelicalism has been less like a one-way street leading to the right, and more like a street with two-way traffic, carrying many people leftward.
Who owns a pastor’s body?
The roots of inappropriate comments and congregational entitlement.
Are evangelical churches abandoning the working class?
As cycles of unemployment, poverty and death have set in on many working class communities across America, are churches overlooking their responsibilities to help alleviate the pain and suffering of plighted working class families?
As priceless Israeli artifacts head to a controversial DC Bible museum, some wonder why
Israel’s Antiquities Authority is making some of the holy land’s most precious ancient finds available to a vast evangelical institution set to open next year just off Washington’s National Mall. But whose aims will the exhibit serve?
U2 guitarist The Edge makes history as he rocks Sistine Chapel for cancer
The Edge, lead guitarist with the Irish band U2, has become the first rock star to play in the Sistine Chapel, a venue he described as “the most beautiful parish hall in the world.”