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Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…herans, Methodists, Baptists, United Church of Christ, Catholics, Presbyterians, Unitarian Universalists, Jews, Mennonites, and Quakers. The first sanctuary was here in Tucson in 1985 at the Southside Presbyterian Church by the Rev. John Fife, who hung signs outside the church: “This is a Sanctuary for the Oppressed of Central America,” and “Immigration: do not profane the Sanctuary of God.” The church gave shelter to thousands fleeing the Central…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…ues of settler colonialism in the opinion sections of major newspapers, social media has been awash in unabashedly racist comments, including those of an RCMP officer who posted on Facebook that Colten Boushie “got what he deserved.” While some proclaim that the verdicts have shattered efforts at “reconciliation” between Indigenous nations and Canada, others, including an interdenominational group of bishops on the prairies, issued statements abou…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…n shackles from the Chesapeake to the rich bottomlands extending from Georgia to Louisiana. Clay’s insight remains true today: the American System depends on maintaining Black misery so that white workers can feel slightly less miserable while the real wealth flows upward. And what has white American Christianity had to say about any of this? In making and marking a fundamental distinction between the “deserving” poor and the “undeserving” poor, w…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…ry process of truth-telling and the material righting of wrongs. Rather, a cheap reconciliation was rendered, which served—at the beginning of Jim Crow, no less—to hide our continued animosities from ourselves, rejecting one of the major opportunities this nation has had to face what Eddie Glaude, following James Baldwin, calls “the lie.” It is now relatively well-known that most Confederate monuments were constructed at the height of lynching and…

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…had no trouble finding fans among the expo’s 40,000 visitors. “Some Christians Think We are Just Cheap Harlots” “A lot of guys pose for photos with us and when they go home and look up what’s on our T-shirts, they learn what we’re about,” Lobért explained to Telegraph reporter Philip Sherwell. “We call it booby-trapping.” But those who attend adult entertainment fairs aren’t exactly Lobért’s target audience. Her conspicuous appearance is also mea…

Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…he suffering of the innocents. Writing during the Second World War, theologian H. Richard Niebuhr interpreted the cross of Christ as a symbol of God’s judgment that falls not on the innocent but on those who cause the suffering of the innocent—on all those who cause the crucifixion of the innocent, irrespective of position or privilege. In the case of the oil spill, there have surely been wrongs on the part of CEO Hayward and President Obama. Both…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…to recover primal knowledge with them into the lodges; the English antiquarian William Stukeley said that he joined Masonry because he believed it possessed “the remains of the mysterys of the ancients.” Robert Langdon, too, tells us early on that we are in fact looking for “the ancient mysteries.” Who, though, are these “ancients”? Masonic lore has always laid claim to secrets from the misty past, but there is confusion as to whether they came fr…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…heir brutality. But documents like The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who fought alongside Cortés, reveal how these Spanish privateers also came by chaoplexity through religion. After yet another battle against the natives, Castillo speculates that it was only his sins that prevented him from seeing, with his own eyes, the tactical assistance God had surely lent the Spaniards through the apostles James and Peter. Bousquet ma…

NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”

By Nicole Greenfield

…e campaign against the amendment seem to be older, more traditionally affiliated, and familiar with the same rhetorical language that’s been used for decades. One need look no further than 93-year-old Billy Graham’s endorsement of Amendment 1 to realize that the terms of this debate are firmly rooted deeply in the past. “For me, it’s heartbreaking that we’re still having this conversation,” Bakker said, noting conservative Christianity’s continued…

Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve For Criticizing Capitalism

By Peter Laarman

…e greed. How this happened is a tale for another time. Suffice it to say for now that Protestantism’s accommodation of capitalism, even its role in forming modern capitalist ideology, stands as a peculiar outlier within the overall range of Christian teaching through the centuries. “Outlier” is a polite word for it; a stronger but by no means inapposite term would be heresy….