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POPS"Islam is of the devil": a Gainsville, FL church attracts controversy The photo and the pastor's comments pretty much speak for themselves. I probably wouldn't have clipped this except for the final paragraph in the clip -- "we are definitely trying to open up dialogue." This baffles me. I wonder what they're actually trying to accomplish -- presumably the primary purpose of the sign is illocutionary in nature. To the pastor, I would point out that "All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial" (1 Cor. 6.12). Is this beneficial?
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POPSA "celebration of guns" at a Kentucky church Some impressively paranoid quotations can be found in the article, suggesting (it seems to me) that the "parishioners" in this church expect that they will have to use their weapons against the government at some point in the not-too-distant future.
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POPS"Jesus Didn't Tap Out": stepping into the octagon at SOSChurch.tv A new kind of Easter observance -- "Jesus as Ultimate Fighter." The point is "relevance" and bringing young men back into the fold. Check out the awesome video at the source (complete with youthful pastor sporting shaved head and soul patch and his hottie wife, Darla). The church website is SOSChurch.tv.
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POPSChristianity Today on torture David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a Christian perspective, no exceptional circumstances can ever justify the use of torture. From February 2006.
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POPSBuilding bridges between Jews and Latino Pentecostals In L.A., a Jewish group has been mounting outreach efforts to Latino Pentecostal congregations and organizations, including a Spanish-language 'Essence of Judaism" course. The piece suggests the outreach has been pretty successful.
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POPSPassion Fest 2008, Pottstown, PA (July 19) I'm seriously thinking about going to this. Out of curiousity, really. My understanding is that it has a heavily evangelical, proselytizing flavor, but that isn't really indicated by the website.
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POPSReflections on James Dobson, child-rearing, and U.S. political discourse For some time, Dr. Dobson has been known for his insistence that a key component of parents' responsibility is the inflicting of controlled violence on their children in order to make them obedient, virtuous, and "God-fearing." Here a blogger considers links between Dobson's typical language of war, as pertinent to child-rearing, marriage and homosexuality, and foreign policy.
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POPSDoing it and doing it and doing it well -- for God "The 30-Day Sex Challenge: Are You Up For It?" asks Paul Wirth, the pastor of Relevant Church in Tampa Bay, FL. Married couples are supposed to have sex daily for 30 days, while unmarried people are supposed to abstain completely.
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POPSJesus's Christmas letter Found this on an evangelical website. At first, I have to admit, I thought it was a parody, but I don't think it is. Incidentally, the "X" in "X-mas" is a chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christos. Early Christians used the Chi-Rho (which looks like an X and a P superimposed on one another, also known as "the monogram of Christ") as a symbol for Christ, and the so-called "Jesus fish" is based on the acronym iota-chi-theta-upsion-sigma (for "Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter," or "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior").
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POPSHip accessories for the Purity Ball set The image I wanted didn't clip. It was a sign that read: "NO TRESPASSING ON THIS PROPERTY. MY FATHER IS WATCHING." The "property" in question being a young girl's private parts, presumably. Anyone else find this kind of thing weird?
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POPSTen minutes with the Christians United for Israel Max Blumenthal's highly unauthorized ten-minute video piece on what John Hagee's influential organization, the Christians United for Israel, actually preaches: mass conversion of Jews, Muslims as Satanists, a Middle East peace treaty as the work of Antichrist, etc.
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POPSProfile of biblical scholar Bart Ehrman (2006) Journalist Neely Tucker profiles Bart Ehrman, concentrating on the story of his gradual loss of faith as he studied the origins of the New Testament. Nice piece of religion journalism. Archived at http://webcitation.org/5R0Hnb9Xp
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POPSWal-Mart will sell religious action figures The talking Jesus doll will retail for around $20 and is programmed to tell Jesus' life story and to repeat "memory verses" (such as Jn 3.16). Shipping soon. More: http://store.messengersoffaith.net. Discovered via http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/Religious_Action_Figures
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POPSRon Luce on Teen Mania, his Christian organization I think Luce is someone to watch. He is behind the "BattleCry" teen evangelization movement, which targets popular culture. He has an interesting perspective on some things, I think, and he's an extremely dynamic organizer.
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POPSR.I.P. Falwell: preliminary roundup of media coverage From various sources, here is a quick roundup of mainstream coverage of and blog responses to Falwell's death this week. I've barely begun to get through this list. Someone ought to start a wiki. Many of these links are from ReligionHeadlines.org and from other Religion Newswriters Assoc. pages. Some are from the GetReligion.org post on Falwell from this week. Others are from Beliefnet. Highly incomplete; I plan to update this. Feel free to leave additional links in the comments.
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POPS"Ear-Ripping-Off Battles" against the devil Fascinating interview, prob. 2005, with Bob Welch, author of "You, the Warrior Leader." Welch, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor and former Green Beret and wounded Vietnam vet, discusses the application of military thinking to "spiritual war."
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POPSWhat's wrong with Mel Gibson's Passion A blogger describes intense disappointment, even disgust, with the theological and aesthetic content of Mel Gibson's Passion. Not the greatest or most profound post, but interesting.
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POPSEvangelical leaders demand Cizik stop talking about climate Dobson, Perkins, Bauer, Weyrich, and others condemn National Assoc. of Evangelicals VP Richard Cizik for his engagement with environmental issues and human rights, which they see as a distraction from the basic moral issues of banning abortion and same-sex marriage and "teaching sexual abstinence." Oddly, none of the signatories is a member of the NAE.
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POPSReligion & Ethics Newsweekly profiles Anne Lamott An eight-minute video profile of evangelical Christian writer Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Plan B (among other works). Nicely done. I couldn't figure out how to clip the video itself, but this page links to it.
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POPSSexual predator's sentence includes reading evangelical texts A man convicted of illegal sexual conduct towards teenage girls, in addition to a two-year prison sentence, is required to read the evangelical tract "Every Man's Battle" and write a book report on it. Technically, this is probably illegal, but it doesn't seem to be causing much controversy ... yet.
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