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Sex-Loving Evangelicals: A Ploy to Fill the Pews?

Nicole Greenfield, Religion Dispatches. May 7, 2012.

More direct sex talk is a growing trend even among traditional evangelicals, and for several headline-grabbing pastors, it's the focus of their ministries.

How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You

Valerie Tarico, AlterNet. March 7, 2012.

Good people are willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and even violate human decency in their quest for converts.

Why Young People Are Fleeing Conservative Evangelicalism

Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check. February 9, 2012.

Some leave because they oppose the church's doctrinal stance. Others are turned off by its hostility to science. Others reject the limitations placed on sex.

Praying to Be Skinny and Straight: Why Evangelicals Are Concerned With Weight-loss and 'Ex-gay' Therapies

Hannah Tepper, Salon. January 31, 2012.

A new book reveals how evangelical culture equates gayness and fatness as both sinful inabilities to control urges.

"I Cannot Eat Your Prayers": How Student Debt Changed One Woman's Mind on "Christian Charity"

Kristin Rawls, Killing the Buddha. December 19, 2011.

From an evangelical home to over $100,000 in student loans and healthcare debt, one writer faces the ways in which even progressive Christianity comes up short.

How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. October 13, 2011.

Deference to religion masquerading as politics must end.

My Life as a Daughter in the Christian Patriarchy Movement -- How I Was Taught to Obey Men, Birth 8 Kids and Do Battle Against Secular America

Libby Anne, RH Reality Check. September 14, 2011.

We were raised to fight the enemy, be it Satan or environmentalists and feminists; to come against them in spiritual warfare and at the polls.

New Exposé Reveals Rick Perry's Close Ties to Radical Evangelicals and Self-Proclaimed Prophets

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 12, 2011.

A group of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets from a little-known movement called the New Apostolic Reformation have been quietly pushing for Perry.

Why the Christian Right Becomes More Extreme As America Grows More Tolerant

Richard L. Fricker, Consortium News. July 25, 2011.

The political movement is “revenge”-based, rather than rooted in any particular Christian philosophy.

How Mike Huckabee's Evangelical Creds Helped Him Avoid the GOP's Collapse, and Remain a Political Threat for 2012

Max Blumenthal, Nation Books. September 8, 2009.

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Republican Gomorrah,' Blumenthal explains the former Arkansas governor's surprising ascent to the top of the GOP ranks.

What It's Like To Be an Atheist in the Bible Belt

Susan McCarthy, Comment Is Free. August 6, 2009.

Even in the South's big cities, many atheists feel they have to stay closeted.

America's 'Emerging Church:' Will a New Post-Evangelical Christianity Reflect More Tolerant Views?

Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. May 29, 2009.

Christian publications are abuzz with talk about the "emerging church," which seems to be more science and gay friendly.

The New Christian Right is Global: What Mainstream Media Isn't Telling You

Bruce Wilson, AlterNet. April 5, 2009.

World Christianity is Changing, But Perhaps Not For The Better if You're a Liberal

The Coming Evangelical Collapse

Michael Spencer, Christian Science Monitor. March 20, 2009.

A "postevangelical" predicts the coming of an anti-Christian era that will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment.

The Christian Right Goes Back to Bible Boot Camp

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. December 4, 2006.

After a study revealed that less than 10 percent of evangelicals were Bible literate, James Dobson's Focus on the Family is desperately taking a two-day multimedia Bible boot camp on the road, selling "truth" for $179 a seat.