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“God Needs You To Get Out of the Bubble”: Riverside Controversy Exposes Theological, Racial Fault Lines of the Christian Progressive Movement

Jonathan L. Walton and Peter Laarman.

What does it mean that Rhodes Scholar and Progressive Evangelical Brad Braxton resigned as senior pastor of the influential Riverside Church? In this discussion over the implications, a reverend and a scholar ask whether multiracial churches require making white people comfortable, why God needs liberal protestants to get out of the bubble, and what the future holds for the mainline church as a whole.

How Much is a (Progressive) Pastor Worth?

Preston Davis.

When New York City’s fabled Riverside Church brought in a new, evangelical pastor with a pay package of $600K it made roaring headlines and sparked a lawsuit. Our writer attended the Sunday service and reports back on the "controversy."

AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

Louis A. Ruprecht.

Why exactly are these prophets receiving even more bonus money and what happened to Obama the prophet candidate?

There Will Be a Nation

S. Brent Plate.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, starring “Best Actor” Daniel Day-Lewis, operates as the creation myth of an imperialist America.