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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ople in the United States and around the world. We cannot and will not be silent while threats are continuously uttered by the highest political leadership in our country, nor will we watch the ongoing murders of Black people by police officers whose chief duty is meant to be “to protect and serve.” In his most recent conversation with the nation’s governors Trump’s words read as an encouragement to bring harm to our local communities. From CNN: “…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…tion is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary’s hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime—the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment….

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…d be somewhat or very comfortable learning that a friend is transgender, while a full third are willing to tell pollsters this would make them uncomfortable. I hope that PRRI and other research institutions and polling organizations will continue to ask questions like this one in subsequent years so that we can see whether Americans’ self-reported feelings about having transgender friends track with their understanding of gender as binary or non-b…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…on of church and state. President Obama chose Rogers for the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and she ultimately shepherded the drafting of the Council’s recommendations, particularly those on reforming aspects of the Office that critics believed violated the Establishment Clause. That’s not to say that he only picked liberals — in fact, Obama did choose many advisors who are most definitely conservative…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…interested in iconoclasm. When the new pope is soon shown within Time’s familiar red frame he will likely appear in full and flattering light, but only briefly. Is it any wonder that the last newsweekly standing would gravitate toward stories of once-unquestioned authority undermined and reduced to a shadow of its former significance? This is, after all, a story it knows quite well. *This essay was adapted from a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…able to give rules on every matter of life and these must be the way you will govern. Ironically, it is the creation of a law in Christianity, and Jesus reviles the law in the synoptic gospels. The one Christian tradition that does have a strong legal sense in this country is Catholicism, and it is originally this structure that made it suspect in the eyes of the American populace. Now, it serves as a single-issue bogeyman regarding abortion. Jud…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…ng site to connect Anglicans globally. Recently, she co-founded Episcopal Village with Jon Myers, a postulant the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, who planted Beacon Hill Church Plant in south Seattle. This grassroots community and initiative has stated to serve as a resource for Episcopal dioceses, parishes and leaders for emerging/fresh expression mission with an Anglican ethos. So that interested parties can connect with each other, she’s planned…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…as persons until 1865, were applied instead to big new businesses, like railroads and oil and steel. Corporations were quite literally re-defined as “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment. And lest we miss the deep interest Americans have always had in commerce and in debt, the Amendment continues by distinguishing between just and unjust debt. But that judgment is squarely in the eye of the indebted beholder. We have been living in that world…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…ad warned the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph that a priest “fit the profile of a child predator,” and the diocese didn’t take action against the priest for six months. Fr. Shawn Ratigan was arrested a few weeks ago on three counts of possessing child pornography. The diocesan review board never saw the case. Bishop Robert Finn eventually apologized. These recent developments should not have been a surprise. In October 2005—just three years aft…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…s. Most tribes, whether of nations or ethnicities or sports fandom, can easily demarcate their membership—it’s the people who look like us, or talk like us, or dress like us. Tribes organized around religious belief have rituals, sacred texts, and physical spaces that all serve to bind the participants together. Atheism has none of these things—most of the time it’s an individual choice, made and kept alone. In my piece, I point out how even Democ…