So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do about the Boy Scouts of America?
Bali, bikinis, Miss World and fear of Islam's 'extremist fringe'
Pod people: 'Mass exodus' from the Boy Scouts?
One of the wonderful things about writing is the ability to type something, decide it’s not precisely exactly what you wanted to say, delete it and start over.
Why did a conservative Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)
Let’s say that there is a Republican president in office right now, one with ties to a somewhat doctrinaire form of Christianity.
When a pastor has an affair and nobody's talking
Seven questions about Boy Scout gay policy coverage
Headlines over the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to allow openly gay members are still flying fast and furious.
Hey Washington Post: There's only one (gay) Islam? Really?
Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts of America knows that, when it comes to issues linked to homosexuality, there is no one “religious” perspective that journalists need to cover. Even within individual religious traditions — such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Roman Catholic Church — there are people who read the same texts and come to slightly different, or glaringly different, conclusions.
The theology in all those Father Greeley sex scenes
Much like his friend (historian, not theologian) Martin Marty, the prominent sociologist (not theologian) Father Andrew Greeley of Chicago lived a long and astonishingly productive career in which he had few unpublished thoughts.
Churches dumping Boy Scouts over gay policy ... or not?
Godbeat pro Bob Smietana wrote a story this week exploring whether churches will keep sponsoring Boy Scout troops or drop their affiliation given the organization’s new gay-friendly membership policy.

