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Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.” From the beginning, the possibility that the Shroud had been born of the techniques of talented medieval artisans was not ignored, even by the Church. For this reason, it has been examined and inspected many times in its history. Having survived minor fires and threat of flood, it has also been preserved and repaired. Raising questions of what it means to be made…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s that attract hundreds of LGBT Christians from around the world. Lee took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book and why he thinks his fluency in the language of his Southern Baptist youth can help bridge the divide between anti-gay Christians and the LGBT community. _____________________ What prompted you to write Torn? The issue of LGBT acceptance in church and society has become a significant w…

Festivus, Atheist Santa, and the Invention of Blasphemy

By Anita Little

…fun with it. That’s an important part of ritual. Also a lot of people have time off work or off school around this time of year and whether or not they celebrate Christmas as Christians, everybody still gets the time off. There’s no hiding that this holiday that people of all religions enjoy is there because of an initially Christian reason, but it’s become open to everyone, and everyone gets a chance to celebrate in their own way. There’s been to…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…hate refuse Moscow’s request? With Antioch refusing to participate at this time as well, and Moscow likely to join Bulgaria and Antioch, what is the current mood on Crete and in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and what might the Council still accomplish despite these complications? The question is wrongly posed. I’ll explain why. It isn’t appropriate or even accurate to speak of Churches refusing to attend or of Constantinople’s refusal to respond. I…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…become almost daily news from Burma. The July 1st international edition of Time magazine has added fuel to the fire with a cover photo of the fundamentalist Burmese monk Wirathu, calling him “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Protesters took to the streets this weekend, and President Thein Sein officially banned the magazine, citing concern about the “recurrence of religious and racial conflict.” The president’s office released a statement that: “The…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…ghbors say they hope to see the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in their lifetime. The numbers vary over time and due to the ways questions are structured. It is clear, however, that more people are excited by this type of apocalyptic belief than can be explained by counting the actual parishoners sitting in the pews in fundamentalist churches. Most of these folks, however, are not considering actual criminal acts or violence. Brenda E. Brasher note…

Dear #MeToo Christians: Time to Take a Long Look in the Mirror

By J. Dana Trent

…lical Christian women for coming forward in #MeToo, it’s also an opportune time to examine the log in our own eyes. Any woman associated with the Southern Baptist Convention—through her church membership or organizations who support her “ministry”—and who benefit professionally and otherwise, cannot point a finger at #MeToo until they come clean and cut ties. Molly T. Marshall, president and professor of theology and spiritual formation and Centra…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…SPOILER ALERT: Turns out that childbirth sometimes isn’t that bad, but sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s REALLY DEADLY BAD. But that’s probably a different essay.) And second: Women, precisely because they’ve been an oppressed group, benefit when society as a whole welcomes marginalized life… and you wouldn’t want to ruin that for the rest of us, would you? In this respect we were acting true to a very particular type. I’d lived in a Catholic Wo…

An Art of Flesh and Blood: Remembering Disability Activist Rev. Rick Curry

By Gregory Mozgala

…l, a mentor and a source of hope and inspiration to me at a very formative time in my life. After my time there, I worked with the NTWH as an administrator for a year, during which I saw the work of NTWH—and Rev. Curry—change lives. I can remember, during one of my first nights in Maine the following summer, a few of us were hanging out in the living room area yucking it up and getting to know each other. A young man with a severe case of cerebral…

Drilling Wakes the Humanoid Reptiles: Doctor Who Part V

By Gabriel Mckee

…commit atrocities they never would have thought they were capable of in a time of peace. And so, while there is still time, the Doctor calls on the humans among whom he finds himself to be kind, forgiving, empathetic, and not allow ourselves to be sucked into an escalating cycle of violence and retaliation. We will see in the second part how things play out. But the biggest question is unlikely to be answered in that episode. The biggest question…