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Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

The folks most likely to be alienated by Daniel's book are, unsurprisingly, the seekers—those who call themselves SBNR, of course, but also those who want religious community, or at least want to want...

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God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

“We really need to get rid of Ex-Gay groups. I would like to see Christians, en masse, abandon these groups, to recognize that they don’t work. If they want to help people be celibate because that’s...

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NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out

Collins says he takes Jesus’ teachings seriously.

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Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done

Christians (understood to mean here heterosexual activist traditionalists) have become identified with actively pursuing the denial of rights and benefits to others that they themselves enjoy. In other...

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An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men

Though Craig is correct that his argument is “simple,” he is wrong to believe that simplicity makes it good. Indeed, the suggestion that terms and concepts are immune to redefinition is simply......

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Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?

When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line...

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Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

Prime Minister’s defense of pro-gay Christian conscience goes viral; new project encourages other Christians to make videos

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LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

It's easier to argue about Jesus and whether he was fully human, fully divine, both or some mixture thereof, instead of doing the dirty work of feeding the poor, etc.

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Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

Alex Theodoridis, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, conducted a survey last fall...

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“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

“They believe in some strange religion, not Islam,” a Muslim refugee from the Iraq city...

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Country Trumpkins

I watched Donald Trump’s speech the other night to a sweaty crowd in West Bend,...

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