Two Religions, One Hysteria: Climate Change Preachers and Rapture Watchers in Unison

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If you have any familiarity with Christian dispensationalist “rapture watchers,” the following quote (written in the wake of the Japan disaster earlier this month) should look pretty familiar: Today, the global world experienced a tragedy of mass proportions. The earthquake which hit Japan’s coast this afternoon has now become part of the long list of [...] Read more »

Bonhoeffer on How the Church Can Act towards the State

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My recent series “A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community?” (Part One, Two, and Three) has involved a discussion of the church’s relationship to the state, with some special attention paid to the current debates over homosexuality and marriage. During that discussion, I made the assertion that when the church that looks [...] Read more »

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 3

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In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans’ declaration that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law has set up a “civil war between the church and the gay community” reflected common misunderstandings of the foundations of US government. Part Two dealt with how [...] Read more »

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 2

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans’ declaration that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law had “set up … the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community” reflected common misunderstandings of the foundations of US government. Today, we’ll look [...] Read more »

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 1

Foreigners love their countries more than ours

In the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case challenging the Washington, DC law recognizing gay marriages, DC pastor Anthony Evans has declared a “civil war between the church and the gay community“: “[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community,” [...] Read more »