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September 2016

September 15, 2016

Church removes minister for her atheism

We have blogged about the case of the atheist pastor. Gretta Vosper has been a...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Saying God is transgender

The contours of a new liberal theology, one in accord with the new ideology of...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Confessions of an ex-liberal theologian

Thomas C. Oden is a prominent theologian who formerly was a major practitioner of liberal,...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

Turning pride from a sin to a virtue

An LGBTQ theologian, apparently thinking of "gay pride" parades, wants Christianity to change its teaching...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

The case of the atheist pastor

Mainline Protestants have been casting away traditional Christian teachings with great abandon. Pastors can now...

April 08, 2016

“Is God Dead?” 50 years–and 439 years–later

This month 50 years ago, in 1966, Time Magazine featured its cover-story entitled "Is God...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Christian atheists

The BBC website has pages on the different kinds of religion, including "Christian atheism." Read...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

“Conscience,” “calling,” and the new pastoral counseling

More from Terry Mattingly's column about the new Protestant-like role of "conscience" in liberal Catholicism: ...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

Conservatives in liberal churches

The state churches in Scandinavia are theologically liberal, sometimes to an extreme. For example, in...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Removing a heterodox pastor

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is getting criticized for expelling a pastor and professor for publicly...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Traditional style, progressive substance

We blogged about Rachel Held Evans, her point that Millennials can't stand the church growth...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Catholic family synod & liberal Protestantism?

The first document from the Catholic synod on the family--which is considering divorce, cohabitation, homosexuality,...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Whatever happened to the National Council of Churches?

The ecumenical organization of liberal mainline Protestants (plus the Orthodox, which I never understood) known...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

The post-Protestants

We have the post-moderns and the post-Christians; now we have the post-Protestants. Referring mainly to...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Back to the social gospel

Hillary Clinton cited her commitment to the "social gospel" in a speech to United Methodists. ...

March 2014

March 11, 2014

When the church “doesn’t really stand for anything”

Newsweek has an article about how Protestantism is dwindling in the land of Luther. It...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

When a bishop does not believe the Creed

The land of Gustavus Adolphus, who gave his life defending the Lutheran confessions, has chosen...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Good liberal theology vs. bad liberal theology?

British theologian Theo Hobson has a paradigm-scrambling article in the Christian Century, the magazine of...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

A sociologist looks at Progressive vs. Conservative Christianity

In the context of a discussion about a growing movement of conservative Catholicism in England,...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The Unitarian controversy over polyamory

Most churches and theological traditions have their controversies, spats, factions, and schisms. Unfortunately, that is...

March 05, 2013

A milestone in the decline of liberal Protestantism

The much-diminished National Council of Churches is closing its headquarters in New York City, a...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Forgive us our debts

University of Chicago theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite says that when Jesus told us to pray...

October 2012

October 09, 2012

Legalism is worse than liberalism

More on how Christians from all traditions are discovering Luther's distinction between Law and Gospel. ...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

Mainline liberal Protestants look for a new name

It isn't just [some] Southern Baptists--or [some] Missouri Synod Lutherans--who are looking for a new...

July 13, 2012

Changes in the Orthodox church

Metropolitan Jonah, the evangelical convert who became the head of the Orthodox Church of America...

January 2012

January 12, 2012

Chapel at Harvard

Harvard Divinity School professor Stephanie Paulsell tells about worshipping at Harvard: On Wednesdays at noon...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

Glenn Beck and his allies in Israel

Glenn Beck is in Israel, holding a big rally supporting that country against its Islamic...

July 2011

July 01, 2011

The new rules for evangelism

Last week we blogged about the conclave of world evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and liberal Protestants...

August 2010

August 13, 2010

UCC is going after Anne Rice

I guess this is an admission that liberal churches have quit being Christian too: The...