Reading Time: 7 minutes Much as we might like to think that there exists a global secular commons, a consensus-driven international terrain wherein different cultures might agree to rise above respective nationalist ambitions, the current world landscape only affirms how routinely broken is the promise of international governance.
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Southern Baptist Frank Page can’t escape his past
Reading Time: 11 minutes Frank Page has a decades-long and well-established history of not wanting to investigate sex abuse in Southern Baptist churches or holding sex abusers fully accountable for their crimes. Then he got himself embroiled in a scandal of his own.
But never fear: Almost immediately, Page got a pastoring job in an SBC church. But the story wasn’t over.
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The evangelical response so far to ‘Nones’ outnumbering them
Reading Time: 11 minutes Pew Research just released a bunch of surveys and studies about Nones. At 28% of America’s adult population, they now outnumber both Catholics (23%) and evangelicals (24%).
Evangelicals have never taken their decline well, and they are not about to start now.
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Modi’s campaign opener: Hindu temple rises on site of destroyed mosque
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hindu nationalism rises in Indian PM Narendra Modi’s first major political stunt of 2024, ahead of an anticipated April or May election: fulfilling a BJP vow that only exacerbates ethnic tensions against a long history of sectarian violence.
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Trump or DeSantis: Who would Jesus endorse?
Reading Time: 11 minutes Evangelicals continue to argue with each other about who should be on the Republican ballot for the next election: Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. Each camp has its own vehement opinion.
Invoking divine authority to bolster one’s claims is a long-beloved evangelical pastime. Here, it just makes them look ridiculous.
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Boebert: ‘Chasing Jesus’ to punch her ex-husband in the face?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lauren Boebert often courts controversy. She is full of rhetoric. But does her behavior reflect or contradict her Christian rhetoric?
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Southern Baptists have a serious Paul Pressler problem
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2017, a man sued Pressler for sexual abuse. Seven other men eventually came forward with similar stories. The suit was settled, but the glaring problem that Pressler represents to Southern Baptists hasn’t been so easily dealt with.
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Ammon Bundy is on the run—and still blustering at his followers
Reading Time: 22 minutes Ammon Bundy is one of the lackluster sons of infamous “welfare queen in a cowboy hat” Cliven Bundy. For a while now, he’s entertained delusions of political relevance. Alas and alack for him, evangelicals as a whole just haven’t resonated with his particular brand of shrill, screechy conspiracy theories. Now on the run from the […]
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Why Pope Francis just nose-thwacked a dissenting cardinal
Reading Time: 7 minutes Pope Francis finally made a direct attack on one of his major critics in the extremist, hardliner faction of Catholicism—US Cardinal Raymond Burke. The timing is no coincidence. It’s one more indication that the ailing organization is teetering on the brink of schism.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses change course on the most JW thing of all
Reading Time: 12 minutes Given how the denomination used the information gathered, it seems very likely that the numbers look so humiliatingly bad that their leaders don’t even want to know what they are anymore.