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Anti-abortion billboard in Louisville

Billboards and Prooftexting abortion

February 18, 2016 · by Brian · in Faith

I pass this billboard at least three or four times a week: “Thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb,” it reads, from the Revised Standard Version translation of Psalm 139, 13th verse. It makes me angry almost every…

Sunday thoughts: Homeless Jesus

March 2, 2014 · by Brian · in Faith

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. — Hebrews 13:2 (NRSV) St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson, North Carolina recently installed a statue of Jesus as a homeless…

Hermeneutics & HJR-3

February 11, 2014 · by Brian · in Faith

I’m working on a post to recap what was said during yesterday’s Senate Rules Committee hearing on HJR-3, which would enshrine discrimination against LGBT Hoosiers in our state’s constitution. But I wanted to comment on a specific religious idea that…

Cross made from a bullet casing

MLK, John Lewis, and transforming guns into plowshares

January 22, 2013 · by Brian · in Faith

Over the last two months, I’ve written – then deleted – a half a dozen posts about guns and violence. I just can’t seem to find the right words. Every day I sit at my desk and see a small…

Picture of White Jesus

Ohio school district promotes non-religious Christianity

January 12, 2013 · by Brian · in Faith

Yet another example of Christians reducing Jesus to a cultural symbol, drained of any religious or theological context: school administrators in Ohio are refusing to remove a copy of a famous religious painting from a public middle school. In this…

Conservative pastor withdraws from Obama inauguration

January 10, 2013 · by Brian · in Faith

Conservative evangelical megachurch pastor Louie Giglio has withdrawn himself from President Obama’s inauguration ceremony, following the publication of an anti-gay sermon he gave in the 1990s. In a statement, Giglio explained his decision to “respectfully withdraw” his acceptance of the…

Juxtaposition: Christians in the Capital

January 9, 2013 · by Brian · in Politics

Yesterday, the inaugural committee announced that Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers, would be giving the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration ceremony on January 21. Less attention was given to the selection of conservative megachurch pastor Louie Giglio, who will…

John Waters on The Simpsons

Bill O’Reilly and the fight to secularize Christianity

December 8, 2012 · by Brian · in Faith

Last week, Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly insisted that Christianity was not, in fact, a religion, but rather a philosophy. That prompted this righteously funny, indignant response from Jon Stewart: In his bluntness, I think O’Reilly clumsily pulled back the…

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