Based on a single unidentified survey, writer David Klinghoffer helps Christianity Today redefine “secularist” as irreligious and unethical. Secularism, as I see it, is a separation of church and state that acts as religious Americans’ single strongest shield against one…
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United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie writes: I have a great deal of love for the United Methodist Church and the local congregations that really live by the slogan “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.” It is sad that…
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Rick Mercier of the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., pens a thoughtful commentary, too rarely seen in larger news media. Introductory paragraphs: I cracked open my Bible and started rereading the Gospels. And you know what? I can’t see what…
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Media Refuse Gay-inclusive Religious Ads
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CBS, NBC, and UPN Major broadcast TV networks have refused to run an uncontroversial Christian ad campaign that emphasizes the United Church of Christ’s welcome to all people, including gays. (The ad has been accepted by a handful of cable…
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A Response to ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’
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From songwriter/inspirationalist Marsha Stevens via the southern gospel music blog averyfineline.com: I like Mark Lowry‘s take on the old saying. He says, "What if we said ‘Love the sinner, hate MY OWN sin?’ Wouldn’t that be a good thought?" Learn…
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In August a Canadian exgay coalition wrote a letter to the Anglican Eames Commission. The letter complains of feeling victimized and oppressed by advocates for tolerance — but no examples of anti-exgay discrimination are provided, except one pro-exgay amendment defeated…
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Blogger Chuck Currie reprints yesterday’s press release from Sojourners for takebackourfaith.org. How has the love of Jesus, the Prince of Peace – and his good news to the poor – been distorted by the pro-war, pro-rich political agenda of the…
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Off-topic: ‘Are Liberal Christians Phony?’
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David Batstone is the executive editor of Sojourners, an evangelical Christian magazine with a history of pro-life, pro-human-rights, antipoverty and antiviolence activism rooted in the Bible. (Disclosure: I worked for Sojourners in the late 1980s.) When he’s not on tour…
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Off-topic: Morality of the Cherry-pickers?
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Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte Observer (free subscription required) comments on Catholic bishops who pick and choose which Biblical moralities to uphold and which to ignore: Bishops who single out the abortion strictly enforce sexual and reproductive morality. They then…
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Mel White on Falwell, Bush, And Ex-Gays
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Pridesource.com today published an interview with the Rev. Mel White, head of Soulforce, the U.S. network of gay-affirming, faith-based, nonviolent activist organizations. White has much to say about having ghostwritten autobiographies of religious-right leaders; about living as a gay man…