(1) Secular, But Feeling a Call to Divinity School, by Samuel Freedman (New York Times)
***Because what this world needs is a secularized ministry.
(2) God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis? (Religion Dispatches)
***Wow. That wasn’t subtle. The point of the article is that it’s redundant for the pernicious Westboro folks to be against Kim Davis. Because (the argument goes) Kim Davis and her supporters are essentially on the same side as Westboro. They “have launched perhaps the strangest homophobe-on-homophobe attack imaginable.”
And to follow-up on that title, the writer also ties Westboro to Geneva with this zinger: “The church, drawing from its hyper-Calvinist understanding of God’s engagement with the world…”
If you’re wondering what angle the Westboro attack is taking, it is an argument based on her divorced status:
“But for Westboro Baptists, evangelical pastors’ willingness to remarry divorced people is simply one more sign of their deep failure to do their duty as spiritual leaders. Or, as WBC says, Davis “has decided that her adultery is less sin […] than the sin of the sodomites.” From this position, Davis and her supporters have no grounds to speak against same-sex marriage.”
(3) Our First Baptist President, by Timothy George (First Things)
***Warren G. Harding. Not a great President. Apparently, not a great Christian. But a Baptist, mostly.
(4) Colbert Brings Religion to Late Night (The Atlantic)
***Proving that sincerity in religious sentiment is not to be equated with orthodoxy, this article has both Colbert and Oprah talking about their spirituality and swapping “favorite Bible verses.”
(5) GOP Hopefuls Preach Politics at Texas Megachurch (World Magazine)
***Otherwise known as Prestonwood Baptist, pastored by former Southern Baptist Convention president Jack Graham.
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