culture wars
Charlie Dates counters John MacArthur’s declaration that MLK ‘was not a Christian’
By Adelle M. Banks and Bob Smietana — March 20, 2024
(RNS) — In an open letter, the Chicago pastor compares the California pastor to King opponents George Wallace and J. Edgar Hoover, calling MacArthur 'them in postmodern dress.'
Conservative Nebraska lawmakers push bills that would intertwine religion with public education
By Margery A. Beck — February 6, 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — These bills are part of a broader Republican push nationwide to target a variety of culture issues in education, including diversity, equity and inclusion programs and the type of books allowed in school libraries.
Deconstruction or reconstruction? Pastors discuss a reboot of evangelicalism.
By Bob Smietana — October 25, 2022
(RNS) — In a Chicago suburb, a group of pastors gathered to discuss evangelicalism's failings and how to repair them.
Are the culture wars changing how Christian students choose colleges?
By Kathryn Post — October 7, 2022
(RNS) — 'You see it’s a Christian college, and then immediately ask, what kind of Christian college is it?' said one student.
Mr. Potato Head becomes woke capitalism’s hot potato
By Tara Isabella Burton — March 2, 2021
(RNS) — The drama over Potato Head’s gender is a reminder that the 'culture wars' are now profitable.
Bethany Christian Services to allow LGBTQ couples to adopt, foster children
By Yonat Shimron — March 1, 2021
(RNS) — The change lowers the temperature on a hot culture-war topic pitting faith-based adoption and foster care agencies and civil liberties groups against one another.
Getting serious (and precise) about Christian nationalism
By Robert K. Vischer — February 12, 2021
(RNS) — We’ve seen what Christian nationalism is. What it’s not is perhaps more important.
For Italy’s Muslims, few places to pray and fewer places to bury COVID-19 dead
By Lorenzo Bagnoli — August 12, 2020
(RNS) — As the pandemic proceeded, the building of Islamic cemeteries became a front in a populist culture war.
The future of the church may belong to the fecund, but not the nuclear family
By Holly Stallcup — June 18, 2020
(RNS) — The church’s focus on the family, renewed in a recent article by Kevin DeYoung, pushes to the margins those whose lives don’t include bearing and rearing children.
RNS Best of 2017: After 30 years, a farewell column
By David P. Gushee — December 27, 2017
(RNS) — David Gushee closes his column to return to life as a scholar — leaving behind culture wars and the fights over and within evangelicalism.
‘Merry Christmas’ for Trump is more than a wish
By Yonat Shimron — December 23, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, he's been liberally sprinkling his public remarks with Christmas tidings. And then pointing it out in case anyone fails to notice.
Souls and the guns of America
By Martin E. Marty — October 10, 2017
Let me be ecumenical, interracial, and multi-classy by noting that “everybody” who prosecutes the culture wars wields symbols of awareness of their losses.
After 30 years, a farewell column
By David P. Gushee — September 14, 2017
(RNS) — 'Perhaps voices will emerge that will enable us to find new ways forward together, past the screaming and the litigation, through a return to deeper theological and ecclesial wellsprings. I pray that this is so,' writes David Gushee.
American Christianity’s divisions go all the way down
By David P. Gushee — September 5, 2017
The reality of a hopelessly divided American Christian scene.
The Obama presidency: ‘War on religion’ or ‘Amazing Grace’?
By Adelle M. Banks — January 9, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) A president who had been viewed as reticent about his faith wowed many when he sang ‘Amazing Grace’ at a funeral for a Charleston, S.C., shooting victim. But his record on issues that matter to faith groups was mixed.
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