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Where Are the Thinking Christians? Or, Why We Look Dumb

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On September 23, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Religion

Does it strike anybody else as absolutely crazy that the man who continues, against all reason and despite a complete lack of necessity, to defend a historical reading of the creation story (see tweet below…)

Just a few minutes later informed his Twitter followers about this:

Really, Mohler? You [...]

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‘Class Warfare’ and Born-Again Capitalism

By David Sessions On September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Religion

A matter of hours after President Obama announced his proposal to reduce the federal deficit, which includes $2 in spending cuts to every $1 of new government revenue, his opponents were on television hailing the plan as the return of “class warfare.” Conservative evangelicals dutifully picked up the line, but gave it a slight twist: [...]

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Millennials Have No Moral Framework

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On September 15, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Culture, Religion

A recent op-ed by David Brooks brought my attention to a study conducted by Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and some of his colleagues — the results of which have been published in a book entitled Lost in Transition – that found that young adults are bad at “thinking and [...]

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In Defense of the Search

By David Sessions On September 14, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Religion

I’m a bit late on this because I decided to let it sit for a while before I let myself respond. The trouble is, Brett McCracken is once again suggesting that “searching” young Christians love to hear their own questions bounce off the walls:

“The Search” is the name of my blog, [...]

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Faith in public

By Kenneth Sheppard On September 12, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Books, Politics

Should religion be monitored in our politics through a separation between the public and private sphere? Is such a division even possible? Do liberal constitutional democracies depend on this division? In A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Shape the Common Good Miroslav Volf addresses these [...]

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Against the Exclusion of Religion from 9/11 Memorial Services

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On September 9, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Culture, Politics, Religion

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks against our country on September 11, 2001, and New York City, Washington DC, and just about every other major metropolitan area in the US is planning to mark the anniversary with one kind of commemorative happening or another. The main event in New York, a [...]

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Sarah Palin’s Left-Wing Rhetoric

By David Sessions On September 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

After a scheduling mix-up too baffling to untangle, Sarah Palin took the stage at a Tea Party event in Iowa Saturday to deliver a baffling mix-up of another kind: an impassioned rant against the current political system that married a string of left- wing grievances with [...]

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