There’s no doubt about it. The Rev. Fred Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., is a Baptist — because he says so.
Define 'Baptist,' give three examples
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Are Holy Communion rules legal?
I wish I could remember the name of the op-ed page columnist who, a decade or so ago, wrote that she had a legal right to receive Holy Communion in the Roman Catholic Church, even though she rejected most of its teachings. No, it wasn’t Maureen Dowd.
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Your GetReligionistas -- plus one
It’s time for an update from the GetReligionistas team here in cyberspace. There have been a few changes of location and routine — so here is the news.
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On the other side of the notebook (again)
There is nothing quite as sobering as preparing to give a lecture on a somewhat edgy topic and, minutes before the event starts, learning that there is a reporter sitting in the audience with journalistic intent.
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'God-o-Meter' Democrats on rise
Our friends at Beliefnet.com (we are linked through Blog Heaven) have this strange little blog/graphic device going right now called the “God-o-Meter,” which they are insisting is pronounced “Gah-DOM-meter.”
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Go ahead, count the Iraq ghosts
This is one of those GetReligion topics that I struggle not to write about day after day after day. I’m talking about the role of religion in the Iraq disaster.
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Mouw underlines a non-negotiable point
The other day, I raised a question or two — as I tend to do — about a Los Angeles Times story on an interfaith gathering of scholars to address scriptures that appear to “assert the superiority of one belief system over others.”
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Fault lines in modern evangelicalism
If you needed more evidence that not all cultural conservatives are true political conservatives, all you need to do is read the tea leaves on page one in today’s Washington Times. If you needed more evidence that many of the populist Christians from the old Democratic Bible Belt have not been fully integrated into the country clubs of the old Republican guard, you can click on that same link. Because here is the news from reporter Ralph Z. Hallow:
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A very inclusive and very small church
The Rev. Drew Phoenix of Baltimore is back in the news, as the United Methodist Church tiptoes back into the minefield of human sexuality.
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