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Trendy Wiccans
By
Dave Banack
No one gets too worked up about witches anymore. They’ve gone mainstream, even in the fairly conservative world of Mormonism. Check out this FMH post and its comments, for example, or this weblog. US Army chaplains now apparently get training in basic Wicca beliefs. Beliefnet even added A Pagan’s Blog to its wide-ranging blog lineup.…
Radical Evangelicals?
By
Dave Banack
While cleaning out the highlighted posts in my overstuffed Google Reader, I came across “Two Streams of Evangelicalism in the 21st Century” at The Scriptorium. It reviews the emergence of a post-conservative brand of Evangelicalism that tries to find a middle ground between traditional conservative Evangelicals and liberal mainstream Protestants. Reference is made to Roger…
What if the Mormons are right? An alternative view of baptisms for the dead
By
Dave Banack
A pleasantly entertaining op-ed piece from the Belfast Telegraph: “What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants are wrong?” Not only does the writer cover in short order the ancient Christian tradition of baptism for the dead and why its practice by modern Latter-day Saints shouldn’t really bother anyone … hey, it’s just fun…
Free speech or threat to public safety?
By
Dave Banack
Driving around town late last week, I heard a spirited BBC discussion (carried by my local NPR station) about Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parlaiment who produced a film suggesting the Koran incites violence. Get Religion posted on the story last week. Wilder was entering England at the invitation of the House of…
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