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“Good with money”? Really?

Rather than attributing Holmes’ and the Joker’s nonexistent moral compass (and neither seems to have one) to an absence of moral training that would be there if prayer were back in public schools, we may need to look at their apparent lack of a self-conscious narrative as a more telling source.

Finding the muscle in Mainline (Ecumenical) Protestantism.

But this idea of the Christian life as “struggle” with “baggage” is a ruse to keep the queers in the closet.

The religious right inaccurately portrays study to give them a weapon in the marriage wars.

Will Romney want to talk about LDS Temples being modeled on Solomon’s?

HVAC company claimed the rule violated owners’ “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

It’s silly to pretend the company president’s praise for the “biblical” family was not an attack on marriage equality.

Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed.

Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt.