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What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change

January 16, 2012

Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous, dangerous thing." Similarly, the FBI once described Marti...

2011: The Year of the Hell Debate

Morgan Guyton

January 3, 2012

General

2011 was a turbulent year for American evangelical Christian identity. A major lightning rod within our identity crisis was the publication of Rob Bell’s book Love Wins. Under the surface of the fierce debate...

The New Evangelicals

Marcia Pally

December 14, 2011

General

Though public support for both major political parties is very low, one group of voters is usually exempted from this malaise: evangelicals. It’s assumed that at least these “values voters” are getting what ...

Are Evangelical Republicans Really Pro-Life?

Tony Campolo

November 1, 2011

General

Over the past decade, my Evangelical friends regularly ask me how I can be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time. I understood why that asked the question. The Democratic Party has been overtly pro-cho...

Hope for Despairing Christians In A World That is Getting Worse and Worse

Tony Campolo

October 20, 2011

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Why Jesus might be a Republi-demo-liber-green-peace and freed-O-crat

Kurt Willems

October 14, 2011

General

A few months ago there was a provocative article written by Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady called: Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus. It would be easy for many to be up in arms about such an article, but maybe it takes...

Letter from a Young Evangelical to the Muslim World

Aaron Graham

September 11, 2011

General

Salaam aleikum, shalom, and peace be with you at the end of your holy month of Ramadan and on the eve of a reflective and solemn moment for Americans on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11. Many who share my eva...

Two Roads Diverged in the Evangelical Wood

Brian McLaren

September 7, 2011

General

When I was a young Evangelical Christian coming of age back in the early 1970s, I remember feeling that there were two paths before me. One was legalistic, anti-intellectual, combative and rigid. The other...

C.S. Lewis Should Be An Evangelical Reject Too!

John Janzen

July 24, 2011

General

I am one of the ones who, after reading Kurt’s post on evangelical rejects, felt even more at home . Coincidentally, I read the post the day after listening to an interview with Richard Rohr, where he men...

You Might Be An Evangelical Reject If. . .

Kurt Willems

June 15, 2011

Theology

I wish it were otherwise, but, unfortunately it’s true. Everything within me resisted this realization. But, the time has come to admit it: I’m an Evangelical reject. The more I write the clearer this s...