The Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Church has been arrested for propositioning a male undercover officer for oral sex.
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If anything, Christianity Today’s questions for conservative-Christian viewers of “Brokeback Mountain” may be a bit too tolerant: 1. The tagline for Brokeback Mountain is, “Love is a force of nature.” Do you agree? Do we get to choose whom we…
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Soulforce Plans Summer Roadtrip – Equality Ride
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Soulforce** has announced a major event for next summer, a traveling protest called Equality Ride. At military and religious colleges around the nation, bans on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender enrollment force students into closets of fear and self-hate. These…
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The Vatican’s Gay (and Ex-gay) Problem
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The contorted thinking behind the Vatican’s decision on seminarians is raising questions all along the political spectrum (other, of course, than the reactionary anti-gay activists). Conservative columnist, William F. Buckley Jr., in an article called The Vatican and Gay Problems…
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Both Exodus president Alan Chambers and Exodus lobbyist/political organizer Randy Thomas have gotten in the habit, lately, of calling themselves, and fellow conservative Christians, “godly.” Latest example: Thomas’ otherwise innocuous promotion of GodlyCreativePeople.com, a site that no doubt has good intentions but immediately…
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It seems that ya’all want to talk a bit about religion lately. So, I’m posting a little parable I’ve written. If you aren’t into parables, ignore it.
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Few uses of prayer are more cynical than the Family Research Council’s weekly voodoo-doll ceremonies in which white male fundamentalists in Washington pray that God will see the light, agree with their self-serving ideologies, and smite their political foes. XGW…
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Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was interviewed in ChristianityToday about a new book he’s written. In this book, he argues that the Bible tells the Church not to try to establish a Christian nation. Haggard distinguishes…
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The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds, and perhaps thousands more in indirect support, from an online gambling company and indicted lobbyist…
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Rescuing Jesus From the Right
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Here are recent writings by others on the growing corruption and apostasy of the religious Right, and efforts at renewal offered by other Christians who haven’t sold their souls to lobbyists.