christianity

Religious functionalism and homophobia from magistra 180 days old

A while ago, in a discussion over on A Corner of Tenth Century Europe on the anthropologist Mary Douglas, I mentioned that some of the ideas in her more ...

Who ya gonna call when the libertarians come? from magistra 211 days old

A recent post on FiveThirtyEight arguing that US Republicans are moving towards libertarianism and away from cultural conservatism got me wondering. ...

Nicky Gumbel, evangelicals and homosexuality from magistra 221 days old

[ ... ] as an introduction to Christianity, and also prominent at Holy Trinity Brompton, one of the biggest Evangelical churches in the Church of England. ...

Archbishop of Canterbury killed by Muslims from magistra 253 days old

Although this is a wonderful headline, it is unfortunately somewhat out of date, since a) the Archbishop concerned is Baldwin of Exeter, who died in ...

Christianity as a cultural system from magistra 322 days old

[ ... ] on class. Yes, Christianity in the pre-modern period supports and legitimates royal rule, but that isn’t its only effect, and false ...

An evangelical in the eighties: religion and politics from magistra 351 days old

As a counterpoint to dr ngo, here is my experience of a subtly different sort of ‘Bible-based’ Christianity, as an Anglican Evangelical in the 1980s. ...

dr ngo on US fundamentalism: part 2 from magistra 353 days old

[ ... ] of gay rights. Within Christianity, the rise of radio, and then television, “ministries” that gave louder voice to the most extreme, the most ...

dr ngo on religious fundamentalism (part 1) from magistra 357 days old

[ ... ] the church, and left Christianity for good. Now more than forty years have past, and when I see what the Christian Right [CR] is doing in America ...

Why was the Gregorian Reform Gregorian? from magistra 370 days old

[ ... ] this day in ‘Eastern’ Christianity). Even if the Carolingian empire didn’t create a unified western Christianity, it did create the ideal of a ...

Hard church, soft church and mission from magistra 482 days old

In my last post I suggested one way of thinking about current varieties of Christianity as a distinction between hard churches and soft churches. I now ...