Reminder, Soulforce‘s two-day rally at Focus On The Family’s Colorado Springs headquarters begins Sunday. (Previous XGW coverage) Soulforce makes little mention of Focus in connection with ex-gays; Nonetheless Focus can’t simply expect people to push happy and healthy gays back…
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Cheated By Tolerance — Or By a Cult of Blame?
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This is an oldie, but worth bringing up, I think. The December 2004 issue of Christianity Today published this exgay smear against Christians. Hiding behind the name “Anonymous,” and safe from analysis and accountability to those whom he judges, the…
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Christianity Today interviews evangelical Ron Sider, who for decades has preached — better than I can — against the anticommunity individualism, legalism, materialism, worldliness and general hypocrisy that seem to be not only consuming the religious right, but hobbling U.S….
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Leaving Fundamentalism
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David L. Rattigan launched LeavingFundamentalism.org in mid-March, according to WHOIS. Already, Leaving Fundamentalism has numerous thoughtful articles of interest to Christians who are recovering from the ravages of fundamentalism. Well worth a look.
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Stop the counterprotests against ex-gays — or at least rethink them, says Michigan-based Quaker (Christian) gay-issues director Michael Gibson Faith. In an article today at PrideSource.com, Gibson Faith says gay counterprotests tend to: reinforce the biased language of antigay activists…
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In an interview with Christianity Today, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis — who has argued for many years that religious fundamentalists have too much influence in the Republican Party and secular fundamentalists have too much influence in the Democratic Party —…
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Christian Nation? Jon Rowe Weighs the Arguments
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Is the United States a Christian nation? Libertarian lawyer and college professor Jon Rowe thoughtfully and concisely weighs the arguments (and actions) of the culture warriors. While acknowledging that the ACLU is frequently the target of religious-right "slander" — the…
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Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and feelers — and those who live out Christ’s mission to love thy neighbor.
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Bishop Yvette Flunder of the United Church of Christ finds hateful rhetoric, redefined “moral values,” fear, intolerance, exclusion, racism, sexual bigotry, zeal for war, and anti-Islamic prejudice growing among the leadership of America’s “official” Christian churches. Flunder contrasts this fraud with the…
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From numerous other blogs: Liberal columnist Jennifer Barnett Reed of the Arkansas Times demands the return of her Christian faith, stolen by amoral, greedy, hypocritical, and idolatrous forces within the religious right. Well done. Reed’s commentary methodically spells out examples…