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...defend its tenets in the argot of the day. Bell does this effortlessly. The question now is whether he can sell his approach to the rest of Evangelicalism or whether, as Christianity Today editor Andy Crouch puts it, he will "remain more of a singular rock star in the church world...
...Christian-right leaders want to keep claiming that Hillary Clinton is evangelical America's worst nightmare, they'll have to explain the standing ovation she received at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Other candidates were invited to Warren's global AIDS summit, but only Clinton showed up. (Barack Obama attended last year.) And she pointedly refused to play the outsider. "Twenty-five years ago, when mostly young gay men began dying, we certainly did not talk about it in church," Clinton told the crowd. "We've come a long way." She still has a way to go. In a recent...
...belief in the Church and its doctrines is just as firm now as it was before I read “Materials” as a teenager. If anything, Pullman’s portrayal of the Magisterium forced me to consider what Catholicism should look like...
...Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is filled with veiled denunciations of religion (and Catholicism in particular). In the books, the very epitome of evil is the Magisterium, an organization that mirrors the Catholic Church in its hierarchy and dogmatism...
...according to director and screenwriter Chris Weitz, all those anti-Church references never even made it into the movie. The U.S. Conference of Bishops actually views the movie positively, saying, “Most moviegoers with no foreknowledge of the books or Pullman’s personal belief system will scarcely be aware of religious connotations, and can approach the movie as a pure fantasy-adventure...