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Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…g topics, like same-sex marriage, the economy, and science and morality, become fascinating when viewed from the perspective of Mormon history. They portend the likely storms on the horizon of a Mormonism coming of age in an intellectually and socially challenging world. The new orthodox marriage In the 19th century, the Mormon practice of polygamy shocked the Christian sensibilities of Americans, who considered it a blatant form of immorality and…

Confession is Not Conversion: Giuliani’s Bizarre Comparison of Trump to St. Augustine

By Candace E. West

…everity of his transgression (for lack of a better word), and could barely complete his apology before changing the subject. Predictably, some found this approach uncompelling, and wondered if he could truly show remorse in the time leading up to the debate. He could not. Trump’s pre-debate press-conference-theater, in which he invited journalists to hear statements from Bill Clinton accusers, might have been the first real surprise for me since t…

Unfair Treatment of Women Clergy in the PCUSA and Presbyterian Korean Community

By Gloria Chough

…dained by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta’s (PGA) Committee on Ministry (COM). In all, becoming an ordained minister in PCUSA took almost 20 years. For the past 11 years, I have been the only PCUSA Korean clergywoman to serve in a paid position in a Korean PCUSA church—out of all 12 Korean PCUSA congregations in metro-Atlanta. In addition to the senior pastor, the Session elders (similar in position to deacons in the Baptist or elders in the Uni…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…seed, thereby allowing the root of compassion to break forth. Eventually, compassion becomes the sturdy stalk that gives life to the fruit of kindness. Rule #3: Practice Hospitality Hospitality is the gracious honoring of one’s neighbors, especially strangers. A compelling gesture of hospitality is contained in the Sanskrit greeting: “Namaste,” or “the sacred in me greets the sacred in you.” Even as people stand firm on their differences of opini…

How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride

By Joseph Winters

…of the bargain,” not living up to its professed ideals—especially when it comes to black people and military veterans. One can imagine another kind of interpretation that would question the intrinsic purity of these ideals, that would show how “our” freedom and justice—rather than being fought for everyone—is always intertwined with coercion, suffering, dispossession, and danger for some community. While Kaepernick doesn’t take his vocal critique…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t) men or women, and the presence of LGBT consumers has been forgotten. … Being a gay person myself, I’ve always felt that was such a waste of opportunities,” said Morinaga, 33, who won an in-company competition to start the venture. “By turning our eyes to (LGBT people), I believe we can create products or services that we’ve never seen before.” …

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…tweet and amended it to a more modest, relativized claim: https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/759855955118919680 Armed with screenshots, some savvy Twitter users documented the hasty edit. Why backtrack? In an email to RD, Stein’s Press Director, Meleiza Figueroa, explained that “there had been a miscommunication among staffers and an earlier draft of the tweet was published online, which was then corrected within a few minutes when the mistak…

“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

By Neil J. Young

…ected Cruz would build to an endorsement of Donald Trump. But Cruz did not come to Cleveland to back the man who harassed him as “Lyin’ Ted,” suggested his father had been involved in JFK’s assassination, and made disparaging comments about his wife’s looks. Instead, he staked out a thorough defense of conservatism, what Benjamin Wallace-Wells writing for The New Yorker rightly called “the most exact statement of the prevailing conservative ethos…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…a reflection of a broken world, and others believe that “the neighbor and community are best served when same-gender relationships are lived out with lifelong and monogamous commitments that are held to the same rigorous standards, sexual ethics, and status as heterosexual marriage.” 73% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. Assemblies of God (Evangelical) Members (as of 2010): 3,030,944 The Assemblies of God deems “ho…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…s. The nearly 1:1 correspondence there is truly sickening. https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/672407664421400576 Others, including myself, pointed out that at least some of these charges were tone-deaf, and that there’s more to prayer than commonly thought. The Atlantic‘s Emma Green, and many conservatives, saw a “prayer-shaming” liberal attack on faith itself, which is twaddle. As usual, Twitter’s done this to death, and then some. I’m less in…