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Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…piritual maturity allows individual persons and whole nations (Germany and South Africa, most notably) to pass through a necessary process of self-examination and repentance. Repentance first and foremost requires acknowledgement of the realities of the misdeeds; it requires honest self-examination. Today’s spate of denials, the “many misgivings” responses coming from the liberals, and the bitter attacks on the credibility of the Torture Report al…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…eyliger’s What Would Jesus Do?, a more recent play about how members of an African American church in Harlem deal with HIV/AIDS in their congregation. I was excited about the possibility of looking at cultural production in my epilogue, including how theatre in particular has served as a political and even religious site for so many gay men affected by the AIDS crisis. I left this discussion out because, again, it took away from the cohesion of th…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…T people in Belize and throughout the Western Hemisphere. In the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission held a conference on how the church should respond to the expansion of legal equality for LGBT people. The conference, which was accompanied by a spirited real-time stream of commentary on twitter at #ERLC2014, featured some shifts in rhetoric from SBC leadership. Jonathan Merritt notes two additional upcom…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ty. This would be easier to see if the culture in question were in Asia or Africa or among the indigenous people of the Americas. But the strange relationship between the West and the Christian East makes it difficult to see, highlighting how limited and reductive the conversation around decolonization and multiculturalism truly is. Because in the ironically binary world that these discourses create, there’s little room for whatever traditionally…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…to what Donnie McClurkin said in his video response to the actions of the promoters disinviting him to sing? McClurkin said in a Socialcam video that “It is unfortunate that in today that a black man, a black artist is uninvited to a civil rights movement, depicting the love, the unity, the peace, the tolerance….” He goes on to say that: “…Discrimination, bullying is still a part of this…its bullying, it’s discrimination, it’s intolerance and it…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…and gender to put it mildly and was one of the architects of apartheid in South Africa. Several people tweeted sarcastically that even Kuyper would be “too conservative” to qualify for his namesake award, and it would appear that they’re correct. A member of the PTS faculty I corresponded with expressed the issue was not so much with Keller receiving the award but more with there being a Kuyper award at all. Institutions with storied histories su…

How Much is a (Progressive) Pastor Worth?

By Preston Davis

…m—and most provocatively, he urged those at Riverside to be on the side of promoting condom use to curb the spread of AIDS in Africa, “unlike other religious leaders.” That string of declarations (including that last one, a swipe at the Pope) was intended to address all those who suggested that Braxton lacked the social justice edge the church required. And he finished with, “I wonder if that will make it to the front page of the news.” It was a g…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…time is football (or “hand-egg” if you’re reading from anywhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or South America). Kelce is considered “one of the greatest tight ends of all time,” which may or may not be true because that information is from Wikipedia and I’m not one to question Wikipedia here. Anyway, the Right is outraged! I’m also not here to explain to you fans who Swift or Kelce are. You don’t have to convince me—I’m sure they’re both great and that…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…his fascinating book AIDS and Power: Blocked from direct routes of access, African activists meet with their Western counterparts, who have access to policy makers in Washington and Brussels, who in turn squeeze African governments. He was talking about HIV activism, but the same dynamic exists in the realm of women’s rights. It’s kind of a strange way to effect social change, and it raises all kinds of really knotty philosophical questions about…

Louisville Diocese Throws Teacher Under the Bus Over Ebola Hysteria

By Evan Derkacz

…ain former Republican Vice Presidential candidate is rumored to have, that Africa is a country, but it’s another for the Louisville diocese (whose Archbishop happens to be Joseph Kurtz, the head of the USCCB) to show no signs of leadership and to accept the teacher’s resignation. Clearly, given her husband’s letter to Kurtz, Susan Sherman didn’t waltz in and throw herself on the sword. She wanted to keep her job, which she’s held on and off for th…