The church, in its ignorance of and hostility to evolution (and science in general), is passing up one of its greatest opportunities to apprehend the very God it claims to represent. This irony is due to a terrible case of what may be called “small-god-ism” and is, unfortunately, encouraged by much popular theology. This theology [...]

… at least not if the religious right has its way: There is Campus Crusade for Christ’s Military Ministry, which has a permanent staff presence at U.S. military academies and whose directors have referred publicly to U.S. soldiers and Marines as “government-paid missionaries.” Such groups, Weinstein argues, “are the flip side of the Taliban. They’re [...]

Some would say it’s been a while since we had a proper holy war (the kind of conflict that pits believer against believer in a race to see who can be martyred first) – though it seems that others may disagree: the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are jihad or a crusade. If there [...]