If you're the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning:

Your child is following a "mutant" form of Christianity, and you may be responsible.

Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls "moralistic therapeutic deism." Translation: It's a watered-down faith that portrays God as a "divine therapist" whose chief goal is to boost people's self-esteem.

Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of "Almost Christian," a new book that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on this self-serving strain of Christianity.

A new Lutheran denomination will be born during the next two days in Columbus, made up of Christians disturbed by what they consider a liberalizing of their church, particularly on issues of homosexuality.

The North American Lutheran Church, or NALC, will be mostly made up of theologically conservative congregations who have left or will leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or ELCA, the country's largest Lutheran denomination.

Can I be Christian without living a Christian life? Shirley Lancaster of the Guardian thinks so.

From The Telegraph:

The 69-year-old author and Oxford academic said he is filled with ?visceral revulsion? when he sees women wearing the traditional Islamic covering.

But he held back from advocating a ban on the all-enveloping cloak, insisting that such legislation would fly in the face of Britain?s liberal tradition.

Professor Dawkins referred to the burka as a ?full bin-liner thing? in an interview with the Radio Times in which he discussed his forthcoming documentary on the dangers of faith schools. 

It seems like 90% of the people I run into who are angry about an over-reaching federal government are evangelical men.

Is this a real trend?  If so, why does that correlation exist?