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Why Natural Disasters Were Perfect Timing for Anti-LGBT Nashville Statement

By Kristel Clayville

…r Hurricane Harvey while the floodwaters were still rising. https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849 At the very least, Coulter, Bakker, Joyner, and, the authors of the Nashville Statement are acknowledging the contemporary truth of nature’s instability. But the interpretation of (and response to) that instability is where the theology gets sticky. So let’s start with the basics: how do we know that nature is stable? The Nashville…

‘The White Privileged Man’s Burden’: If Jesus Was White Who Are We to Question the ‘Privilege’ That Came With it?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…odist Church covering that? I think it could be important.” https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1287829767753019393?s=20 As expected some members of the Twitterverse took Metaxas to task for the troll-ish nature of his remarks. Some responded that “white people” didn’t exist in Jesus’ time period since race is a modern social construct. For others, the historical Jesus was undoubtedly a person of color, therefore Metaxas was factually incorrect…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…e students who major in the social sciences and humanities are likely to become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious. But students majoring in biology and physical sciences remain just about as religious as they were when they started college. Of course, the article itself is not really about a causal link between either religiosity and choice of major or the impact of college major on religiosity….

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…as a minister, Falwell responded with the following tweets: https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr/status/1136056209679822849 Falwell’s crude and aggressive rhetoric is not unique to him. It partly stems from a fundamentalist Christian worldview which is as much of a political movement as it is a religious one. It’s how the 81 percent of “born again” Christians who voted for Trump in 2016 can justify their support of the president’s malicious xenophob…

A Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…be the new hotspot for Orthodox Jewish singles to meet, according to Jewcy.com. Honoring the separation of church and state, Republican legislators in Florida are sponsoring a measure that would repeal a ban on public dollars going to religious groups and allow teachers to pray with children. Commenting on the Tea Party movement, Jim DeMint gave a quick history lesson, saying, “A lot of our founders believed the American Revolution was won befo…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…men’s fertility choices imagined in Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale. https://twitter.com/eleanor_bg/status/845220527925088256 But it wasn’t only the gendered lines of combat that Atwood recognized in the nascent Christian Right—and this is where Hulu’s adaptation appears to take a self-conscious risk that may ultimately make it the wrong adaptation for the Age of Trump. Margaret Atwood’s novel also carefully noted the racialized history of the Christian…

Between Butker, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes TradCaths are Having a Moment — A Moment With Something to Tell us About Christian Nationalism

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…in Mass church in London, the home of her TradCath husband. https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1782490242026459349?lang=en Just one day after her announcement, the right-wing Catholic Identity Conference listed her as a speaker for their upcoming meeting. The cover image on the Conference’s website features Crusader Knights kneeling as a priest performs a traditional Latin mass. In early May, Nick Fuentes, self-avowed White supremacist and le…

Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me

By Yolanda Pierce

…surrogates for racist rage directed against the president. https://twitter.com/YNPierce/status/796209685976195073 As my election night tweet clearly shows, I am left with a crisis. How do I continue to build bridges across racial divides with those who have demonstrated, in overwhelming numbers, that they will partner with a person endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan? Or with those who affirm someone who continues to insist, after eight years, that our…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…which helps inmates move back into society. After a profile appeared on npr.com, a commenter with the handle Janis Spotts wrote, “I spent 4 years working in the MDOC as a nurse. I’m not naive about the evil that many had performed, but the treatment in prison only degrades the remains of the soul. Thank you for sharing this story-it gave me hope that change is possible-especially if it happens inside the soul.” She was joined by dozens of others w…

Pastor Now Sees Anti-Gay Movement as “Mean-Spirited”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ll experience the same cognitive dissonance that Richmond experienced, and come to his same conclusion: Now I am wondering why, if two gay people want to commit their lives to one another, they should ever be denied that chance. No church or pastor should be forced to perform those ceremonies, and they can choose not to recognize gay marriage for their adherents. But the constitution of the Presbyterian Church does not explicitly forbid a pastor f…