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Opinion: The future of American Christianity
Seeking The Kingdom
By David Gushee   
Thursday, March 12, 2009
(ABP) -- Trinity College’s American Religious Identification Survey was released March 9. Its headline finding, as summarized by USA Today: “Faith is shifting, drifting or vanishing outright.” The news that “almost all denominations are losing ground” is sobering indeed. It helps to clarify that recent budget cuts in Baptist life and elsewhere are not just about our current Great Economic Meltdown, but instead dovetail with a broader fade of organized American Christianity.
 
Opinion: A Christian rationale for a truth commission
Seeking The Kingdom
By David Gushee   
Thursday, March 05, 2009
(ABP) -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has begun hearings exploring the possibility of establishing a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush policies in several areas related to national security. I want to comment here in favor of an inquiry on the subject of torture, leaving other issues aside for now.
 
Opinion: The church: Always in need of reformation
Seeking The Kingdom
By David Gushee   
Thursday, February 26, 2009
(ABP) -- “And if we glance again at Jewish history and see the strangeness and absurdity of the Jew, his obnoxiousness which repeatedly made him odious among the nations -- and now you may give the anti-Semitic register full play -- what else does that mean but confirmation of this rejected Israel, which by God was made visible at the Cross, but also of the Israel with whom God keeps faith right through all stages of his wandering?”
 
Opinion: In vitro industry out of control
Seeking The Kingdom
By David Gushee   
Thursday, February 19, 2009
(ABP) -- In January, a California woman named Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets through in vitro fertilization. These eight babies were added to six others that Suleman had also conceived through in vitro procedures.
 
Opinion: Christian ethical values and government emergency spending
Seeking The Kingdom
By David Gushee   
Friday, February 13, 2009
(ABP) -- Every major public-policy decision involves arguments about facts, interests, and values.  All three have been on display in the fierce debate over the massive $789 billion economic stimulus plan that, as of this writing, was about to head to the president.
 
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