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The New York Times has a colourful piece on a Colorado Springs Purity Ball.
These balls are substitutes for proms, with heavy spiritual themes and are a booming business for the abstinence only crowd.
This Colorado ball has been run for 10 years by Randy Wilson, the national field director of church ministries for the Family Research [...]

In God’s Name is a look at the Religious Right in the UK and if I am reading the site correctly is available for online viewing for seven days.
Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion takes a look at the Dispatches show and some of the people and groups that were featured.
The UK religious right looks similar [...]

MP Ken Epp insists that his private member bill C-484 is not about abortion or fetal homicide, it’s about women. MP Brent St. Denis has introduced C-543 which is a quick amendment to the criminal code addressing violence against a pregnant woman, and C-543 should take the debate off the table and put concerns to rest.
There is no reason supporters of [...]

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A minister arrested in an Internet sex sting has resigned his position at a Dallas-area megachurch, its pastor said Saturday.
The Rev. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, said during services Saturday that the church accepted Joe Barron’s resignation, effective immediately.
Barron was charged Friday with online solicitation of a minor. Undercover [...]

The film tracks the movement of apocalyptic Christian nationalism from the margins of American society to its current presence in the mainstream of public discourse and policy. I began making Silhouette City because, in late 2001, I began to hear echoes of the Christian extremism from my childhood in Arkansas. In order to quiet the [...]

A Baptist minister in Deland Florida has taken a four week leave of absence while police investigate death threats against him.
His crime?
Rev. Sean Allen started at First Baptist Church last September and made the decision to remove the US flag and the ‘Christian flag’ from the front of the sanctuary in October.

I have to be honest, I [...]

 
For over two years an SBC minister who is a consummate politician and  lightning rod for the fighting in the Southern Baptist Convention has done some amazing blogging. He has attracted some of the worst venom I’ve ever seen from SBC leaders who wanted him silenced and pulverized and used every means at their disposal [...]