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Frank Schaeffer has some big problems with fundamentalist Christians. But he also has big problems with the New Atheists.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Next week, "nonpartisan" Susan Hutchison will be vying for the role of County Executive in King County, Washington. Is she a stealth right-winger and closest fundamentalist as some are saying?
Patrick Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
When I was a teenager, I overcame my Hindu upbringing to become a Catholic. Jesus spoke to me and told me Vishnu doesn't vote.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
Why do some Evangelicals believe this toxic dribble about gays being immoral, that God condemns us, and that being homosexual is a choice?
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The bubble of unreality and mythology "moderate" evangelicals have chosen to live in is now coming back to haunt you.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
The radical right movement in America is regrouping in the Senate and Congress and working hard to undo the Obama presidency.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The first reaction from Republicans has been to marvel at the courage Sanford has shown in owning up to his discretions. But he uses religion only when it's convenient for him.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
To ignore the open and questioning tradition and to dwell only on the fundamentalist thread is disingenuous, or in Maher's case more likely simply ignorant.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
The born again experience doesn't require a specific set of beliefs, but rather a specific social/emotional process; dogmas or explanations are secondary. It's not an experience unique to Christianity.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business
Evangelical/fundamentalist faith entertains. It makes money. It nurtures a celebrity culture all of its own with its own TV stations, radio stations, book publishers author tours, rock concerts, etc.
Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living
There are more religious leaders of all denominations who are for gays and lesbian rights than we realize.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
I was in bed with a group of people who were profoundly anti-American. They were professional haters; they "loved" an America that didn't exist.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."
Steve Clemons | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
There is no excuse at all -- none -- for the White House to allow the bigotry and harassment of gays and lesbians in the armed forces to stand. Gays populate the armed services now.
Kevin Roose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
When I stepped on to the campus of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
American Christians who supported the Iraq war as an End-Times battle to spread Christianity have ironically created an environment where Christianity is now disappearing from Iraq.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Trying to convert Muslims to any other faith is a crime in Afghanistan. The fact that the video footage is being broadcast on Al Jazeera guarantees that it will be seen throughout the Muslim world.
Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Political divisions based on the left-right seating plan of human legislatures never did lend itself to good cartography for the kingdom of God.
CBN | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Dr. Frank Page, one of the most conservative Evangelicals on President Obama's Faith council has been very frank in his assessment of President Obama'...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The evangelical religion is no different in its core "values" than the celebrity-worshiping entertainment-oriented society it claims to be a prophetic witness to.
Chris Rodda | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
According to past ADOF newsletters, the promotion of this ministry to the military chaplaincies has been a regular occurrence each spring by both the Air Force and the Army.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
No matter what age the kids are or what the situation, telling them you no longer believe can be tricky. Help them to understand your changes as a matter of spiritual growth rather than spiritual abandonment.
Chris Rodda | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Rather than just write about the lies evangelical David Barton told about me on his show, I decided to make a little video with iMovie.
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John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living