Islam 2.0 can allow the nobler aspects of classical Islam's character to come again to the fore, and the more peculiar and divisive offshoots of Islamic extremism to wither.

If they claim to follow the "narrow path" that evangelicalism seeks to represent, they may want to stand up more boldly for what is singular within their faith tradition. It'll take courage.

It's one thing to turn an atheist into a Christian. But it appears much harder to turn an Evangelical Christian into a real Christian. Yet that's the work that Gregory A. Boyd is about.

Christians are as wildly for sex as anyone; that's what got Bristol into trouble. They simply have an idealized notion of it, one that's increasingly divorced from the reality and the direction of the larger society.

I readily concede that moral boundaries and restraint are crucial to good living. But I am suspicious of the Pharisaic distortions, namely an irrational rigidity, or the sorts of bizarre loopholes and rationalizations common to those who take abstinence vows.