He may be slick, but Ralph Reed is as wrong as ever

Ralph Reed is as slick as ever. And still as wrong as ever. The one-time wunderkind of the Christian Coalition has gone more underground of late as founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, but he’s still orchestrating and spewing...

Opinion Mark Wingfield

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Don’t be a Fred Phelps hater

The enigmatic Fred Phelps has died. The church that he founded, the Westboro Baptist Church, made a name for itself by picketing funerals and public gatherings with signs proclaiming hate for soldiers, gays, and Jews – to name a few. At the…

Contemplative practices gaining with youth, young adults

By Jeff Brumley Some contemplative spiritual practices may be as old as Christianity itself, but they are increasingly attracting younger generations hungry for alternatives to contemporary, flashy worship. Case in point: portions of an international Taizé pilgrimage hosted by First…

Director of gender-roles council denies scrubbing article

By Bob Allen The head of an organization that advocates wifely submission in the church and home denies removing a web page containing an article being compared to Mormonism. Julie Ann Smith, who writes for a blog on spiritual abuse…

Glorieta case remains in federal court despite challenge

By Bob Allen A judge in New Mexico ruled March 20 that a federal court has jurisdiction over a lawsuit challenging last year’s sale of Glorieta Conference Center and lifted a stay so that the case can proceed. U.S. Magistrate…

From libraries to launching pads

By Barrett Owen According to stereotypes I’ve heard, seminary culture used to be something like this: Future ministers pack up their lives, move cities, rent a small apartment on campus and find a corner in the library in order to…