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Long’s case was not simply, as you suggest, a “wreck” or a car “accident,” but a case of DUI: Driving/Pastoring under the influence of unchecked power and accountability. This continues to be a historic problem with commercial celebrity preachers, and given your status and peer group, I’m sure you know this all too well.

Usually, a book about ideas is pretty straightforward. The author is saying this stuff because he believes it. With Terry Eagleton, the British Marxist literary theorist, it’s less so. Marxism, in Eagleton’s hands, is neither exactly a science, nor a practical political agenda. It emerges as essentially a vision, a gaze, a discourse—of political life transformed, of human dignity at last universalized.

Eleven years after apologizing for supporting slavery and segregation, the SBC elects a black officer, but rebuffs calls for LGBT equality.

As marriage equality moves closer to passage in New York opponents are in a panic.

A US District Court judge has denied a motion by Proposition 8 supporters in California to vacate the ruling against the ballot measure because the judge in the case is gay.

A Big MoPublican Primary Update.

And wave goodbye to the “values voter.”

They take home nine Tony Awards.

A roundup of religion headlines.

Public policy is far more prophetic and just than our current church polity…