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Who cares about truth when you have urban legends?

June 23rd, 201111:41 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

A few years ago I was at a church watching their Christmas pageant when the narrator shared with the audience the uplifting origins of the candy cane. According to the narrator, back in the 19th century a candy maker in Indiana, desiring to share his faith in Christ, developed a special new candy to share the gospel at Christmas. He began with a ha...
Conservative evangelicals, environmental hatred, and bad language

April 22nd, 201110:33 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

A couple days ago I posted my review of the documentary "Gasland". The comments from two readers were striking and prompted this article. Some anonymous individual code-named "jrmd32" commented as follows: "If you are so concerned about the environment, then why don't you stop the massive pollution created by this very Internet article, which requ...
Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear

March 05th, 201107:48 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

Apparently there was quite a kerfuffle this week when word got around that Rob Bell's new (and as yet still unreleased) book Love Wins is, or probably does, or might, support universalism in some way. Apparently it all started when influential blogger Justin Taylor concluded after viewing a two minute promotional video that Bell is a universalist. ...

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