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Religion and Science: Toward a Postmodern Truce

By Philip Clayton

…t tenets of their religious tradition. Learning to Work Together In the American public square today, it’s hard to find discussions of the interplay between science and religion that achieve what our society most needs: genuine self-criticism on both sides, born of the recognition that both sides will have to do some bending if any sort of truce is to be achieved. Yet if we do not begin to engage in productive partnerships, how will we address tho…

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…e represented opposing sides on the question of whether governments should promote religious freedom abroad. Seeing her name brought to mind an odd story she recounted during our debate that involved sitting down to tea with General Sisi, shortly after the coup, to discuss the prospects for religious freedom in Egypt. It was only a matter of time until the Baroness and others in the international religious freedom (IRF) lobby sought to capitalize…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…us confess we are addicted to fossil fuels and will use some to go to work today or to cook our food today or to warm our homes today, it is a good day to pray. Like that drink you can’t stop drinking, we are stuck in an addictive pattern. We are morally compromised, to put it mildly. Yesterday it looked like 1.5° C (about 3°F) was going to be the direction for COP21’s final objective (“1.5 and stay alive,” goes the slogan) or at the very least “l…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…h that it could have mitigated some of the underlying social problems that today create fertile ground for drug-based economies and narco-violence throughout Latin America. The liberationist vision was taken up nowhere else more seriously as by the Diocese of Cuernavaca, under the leadership of the beloved “red bishop,” don Segio Méndez Arceo. Don Sergio saw that his priests were trained as community organizers, not in seminaries but rather in the…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…nd thus betray America into communist hands through the betrayal of the American Negro.”** Several years later, as the black freedom struggle grew in strength and momentum, he would tell a reporter, “The persecuted minority in America is not the Negro, but the white folks of the South.” Claiming to not be racist or homophobic, religious right leaders have resorted to the basest language in the same breath. Take, for instance, Hargis’s appeal in a…

PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…have about the nature of marriage. Consider the following examples of historical changes in Christian marriage and whether we can honestly still call today’s version “traditional.” 1) Were individuals always required to be conventionally alive? For the majority of the past two thousand years, Christian women could marry Jesus, who (in most Christian theologies) cannot be said to be a regular human, since he is also fully divine, nor be considered…

Pope Francis Brokers End to Cuba Embargo, Despite Opposition of Catholic Pols

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…by a thirty-minute charter flight from Miami, yet never reach it at all.” Today, Cuba is more in our reach. As a Cuban-American from Miami I have been raised amidst the existential crisis of the Cuban exile community, a community with a rabid anger towards the Castro regime and simultaneous love and compassion for their fellow Cubans on the island. I, like many children of exiles, was raised holding my breath for the death of Fidel Castro, for an…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…rity. In white supremacist ideology in the U.S., white, Christian, and “American” are inextricably linked. The construction of identities in the U.S. The settler-colonial white supremacist framework that developed in the founding of the U.S. formulated “proper” citizens not only as white (especially in contrast to enslaved Africans and Indigenous peoples), but also as men, Christian (sometimes expressed simply as “moral”), able-bodied, and normati…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that Monyela is being disingenuous and that it was not required of South Africa or any African country to actually “sign” the statement to show support for it. “South Africa did support the tabling of the Africa Group resolution and accompanying statement – it was a consensus position presented on behalf of the Africa Group, which includes South Africa,” Graeme Reid, Director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, told Mambaonline. …Nev…

A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…ng deceased father, Robert L. Gilbert, who was Baylor University’s first African-American graduate in 1967. A man who dared to walk the campus when white students reputedly threw rocks at Black people who dared to walk across the campus. I wanted to write a book that would honor the legacy of clergy leaders like Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, a world-traveled Brooklyn pastor regarded as the “Dean of Black Preachers” and one of the most effective preachers…