The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming
…lot of appeal to sincere Christians, but many of their ideas appealed also to the less discipled whites who were nominal evangelicals, rarely went to church, and were motivated by…
…lot of appeal to sincere Christians, but many of their ideas appealed also to the less discipled whites who were nominal evangelicals, rarely went to church, and were motivated by…
…Andrew J. Cherlin, Jeremy E. Uecker, and Matthew Messel, issued a paper provocatively entitled “No Money, No Honey, No Church” back in 2012, explaining that the white evangelical church was…
…discrimination against their religion in land use law or anything else! If a lot of terrorists and criminals emerged out of the networks of my own denomination, the Presbyterian Church…
…the ‘peyote’ decision. I call it outrageous because in the Prohibition years, his own church, the Roman Catholic Church, was the beneficiary of a very similar exemption. Wineries stayed open…
…and Islamic mosques are burgeoning in our inner suburbs, but the young people leaving the church are not going there. It was my generation, the Boomers, that had a fascination…
…the collection plate. We have a day in our church where we visit a rescue mission, the Dream Center in L.A., and things like that. I hope he catches some…
…. . . We might simply describe it as openness to the continuing [and sometimes surprising] operations of the Spirit in church and world, particularly the continued ministry of the…
…also see no suggestion that the position the Roman Catholic Church has apparently recently switched to [and hosts of martyrs testify to the fact that this is a very new…
The historic church, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox, has taken a dim view of ‘cohabitation,’ which used to be called ‘shacking up’ or ‘living in sin.’ The faithful churches in fact…
There has been some coverage about the ‘forgiveness’ offered to Dylann Roof by some of the Christian parishioners of Emanuel AME church that survived his attack. Matt Schiavenza in the…