Mainline Protestant Articles
Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith
March 16, 2008
Rabbi Funnye, the first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, is on a mission to bridge racial and religious divisions by encouraging Chicago’s wider Jewish community to embrace his followers.
In Britain, creationist theory is evolving
March 16, 2008
Europeans have long viewed the conflict between evolutionists and creationists as primarily an American phenomenon, but it has recently jumped the Atlantic with skirmishes in Italy, Germany, Poland and, notably, Britain, where Darwin was born and where he published his 1859 classic.
I do, I do, I do, I do
March 15, 2008
Edmonton Sun columnist Coren writes he predicts that polygamy will be legal and accepted in this country within five years, and that any Charter challenge in support of the custom would not only be backed by the revolutionary precedent of same-sex marriage redefinition but also by guaranteed...
Pastor's hellfire sermons put Obama's campaign in hot water
March 14, 2008
Barack Obama faced potential damage to his campaign yesterday after television networks aired footage of sermons by the former pastor of Obama's church likening the Democratic frontrunner to Jesus and declaring: "God damn America."
Lutheran draft report sidesteps judgment on gay marriage
March 14, 2008
Finding little consensus in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a panel recommends that wedlock still be defined as between a man and a woman, but it doesn't condemn same-sex unions.
What they don't teach at Sunday school: the joy of Old Testament sex
March 09, 2008
A new study is set to cause a storm by focusing on the Bible's treatment of sexual matters. Andy McSmith looks into the row – and revisits some of the good book's steamier episodes
For Jimmy Carter, a more personal mission
February 01, 2008
He is grieved by his inability to make peace between liberals and conservatives in his own faith. It's a battle that has left him estranged from the Southern Baptist Convention.
'God has an interest in our sexuality. God invented it'
October 26, 2005
Pastor goes from classes on anger management to sermons on sex
