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Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…on last night’s debate transcript. Israel: mentioned over a dozen times by each candidate. Palestinians: once. Religion: zero. Religious: three times (all by Obama, in discussing “protecting religious minotiries and women” in the Muslim world). Romney didn’t mention religion or religious freedom, and he only mentioned women’s rights once: “With the Arab Spring came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and oppo…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…adly sins and seven new graces, all seen through the lens of the life and teachings of a queer Christ. Cheng took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book, and his ancient model. LGBT Christians love to talk about grace, but the topic of sin can be painful for us. Why do we need to talk about sin now? In some ways I feel like this conversation is Queer Christianity 201 and not 101 because so many o…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…ncis would agree that the “Christian moral code” involves a commitment to peace and social justice, which Eberstadt seems to ignore in favor of questions of sexual morality. (To be fair, Simon didn’t ask her about such issues.) But the heart of Eberstadt’s argument is demographics, and just about every piece of social research released in the few years undermines that argument. For example, while it’s true that Catholics tend to be more fertile th…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…does the West have to offer? This ignorance also offers Russia and other reactionaries a valuable weapon in their efforts to win new converts, allowing them to argue that there’s a “hidden history” of Christian persecution and suffering that’s being kept from them. And there’s evidence that these efforts are already afoot. Early in 2021 the National Catholic Register, a conservative publication, ran a piece entitled “The Silent Persecution of Chr…