When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

It seems indisputable that the mature formulations of some of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s most famous ideas — e.g., the Noosphere, the Omega Point, the divinization of the species — rest upon philosophies infused with conceptions of eugenics, racial superiority, sterilization, and limitless science.

Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to graduates of Liberty University in Virginia.

While AA presents itself to the public as a mere program of recovery from alcoholism, it’s actually best thought of as a particular moral community, offering a comprehensive conception of how one ought to live one’s life.

Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.

It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.