As the Chick-Fil-A Flap Shows, the Brands We Buy Are Increasingly a Values Proposition
(RNS) — Ideologies have become things for us to buy and sell. We should expect that the people selling them to us treat them — and us — as products.
White Evangelical Protestants Are Fully Disrobed. And It Is an Embarrassing Sight.
The story of Noah is an odd curricular choice for young children. Fresh off the boat, according to the biblical account, he plants a vineyard, gets drunk and lies naked in his tent. I thought of drunken, naked Noah while reading the Public Religion Research
The conflicting values of Huxtable and Cosby
Have you been let down lately by someone who did something — or was discovered to have done something — that shocked or disappointed you?
Mainstream values but unorthodox theology mark Mormonism
Nearly 200 years after religious zeal prompted Joseph Smith to found a movement called the Latter-day Saints, the once-despised minority “cult” increasingly is going mainstream.
Common values, mission draw Christians together across lines of age
Whether church members cross generational lines depends upon the “common” factors on which their specific Christian community is based. Many faith groups that begin as an age-targeted community often attract older and/or younger members because of their underlying value, mission or message.
To help in Middle East: Encourage U.S. to advocate for values
NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) -- As the Middle East writhes in birth pains to deliver something yet undefined, a scholar who specializes in faith and global politics says Christians in America can support the progress toward freedom by encouraging their own government to speak boldly on