Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent.
Pope Benedict ended his heavily protested visit to England…
Glenn Beck’s efforts to become a religious leader for Tea Party America has a lot of commentators discussing the feasibility of a Mormon convert leading a wary evangelical and Catholic right in a faith-driven cause.
Roger Williams was a 17th century theologian, rabble rouser, founder of the first Baptist church in America— and of the state of Rhode Island. His idea of “soul liberty” was in exact opposition to the idea, promoted by some Christian conservatives, that the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”