christianity

Like it or not, the Republicans in Congress are now a kind of congregation, a reality of church, a particular church, but still a church. Inescapably, now they present a Christianity in total power.

Last week HuffPo Religion’s executive editor Paul Raushenbush wrote about a ” stunning resurgence” of progressive Christianity. The right, he notes, had been the “default religious voice” of the final…

In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.”…

Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion

The Flood story forces us to grapple with the deeply impersonal forces of the universe that are set against human civilization.

Individual and group understandings of their ontological positions are ignored to everyone’s peril when we relegate theology to historical study.

Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true across cultures and history. Grand statements about what “all religions” say or believe about…

“The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.’”

American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.

“Antisemitism” is a problematic term. Of course we know what it means—prejudice against or hatred of Jews. But it was first utilized, ironically, by nineteenth century polemicists looking to recast…