A Decisive Moment?
I tried, before I accidentally deleted it , to write about the World Vision controversy. In brief, a well known multi-denominational Christian charity that focused on supporting poor children announced that it would allow married gay couples to work for them if their particular denominations approved same sex marriage. The broader evangelical world freaked out, and within two days World Vision did a 180. Rachel Held Evans has written passionately on this topic . As someone who sees herself as a gay-affirming evangelical, the backlash to brief window of tolerance has clearly hurt her very deeply. She has recently declared a hiatus from blogging , which is unfortunate for those of us who enjoy her work but hard to begrudge her for. If you read what she has written, and the comments afterwords from many others, it's hard not to see that many people have reached a breaking point, in a way that was not the case ten, five, or even two years ago. It's al...