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My Liberal Christian Church is Not Dying

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On July 18, 2012 · 27 Comments · In Religion

At the end of my 2004 faith crisis, when I realized that I didn’t want to be identified as evangelical, I felt lost. Nobody likes to be labeled, but it’s scary to not know where you belong.

It was around this time that I began visiting the local Episcopal church, where friends I respected — [...]

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Altogether Now: Evangelicals Are Converting to Catholicism!

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On July 20, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Religion

The latest issue of U.S. Catholic features a story with a title that will be familiar to long-time Patrollers, “Born-again Catholics: Evangelicals crossing the Tiber.” If you recall, almost exactly two years ago I published a piece in Religion Dispatches entitled “Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism.”

Now, I [...]

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Incredibly Strange Condom Remark Causes Incredible Controversy

By Jon Busch On November 23, 2010 · 9 Comments · In Religion

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the Pope’s recent comments on condom use have ignited a “firestorm” and sparked a “frenzy” as the Vatican rushed to clarify his comments.

I have to confess that I found the article somewhat baffling, especially in consideration of the highly specific, convoluted hypothetical [...]

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The Tragedy of Christian Abortion Activism

By David Sessions On November 17, 2010 · 68 Comments · In Politics

I’ve written before about abortion compromise, the idea that anti-abortion and pro-choice sides should come together on reducing abortions. Now, Will Saletan, in my opinion the leading writer treating abortion with both moral concern and pragmatism, has written a dispatch from a Princeton University conference on “life and choice” that [...]

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