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Southern Baptists Embrace Minorities, but Not Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Southern Baptists are feeling pretty good about themselves today. Eleven years after the denomination apologized to African-Americans for supporting segregation and slavery, it elected a black man as its first vice president of the convention—“the highest position yet held by an African-American” in the denomination, the New York Times notes. Fred Luter Jr. pastors a largely black church in New Orleans and is apparently an “overwhelming favorite…

Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…ng to save?” Kumrits asked his friend. “Man, he sounded just like we sound today.” But if you ask them what they are, they really don’t know. And they’re fine with that. They don’t know where they will be spiritually in a year, but they don’t seem very much preoccupied by it. Today, their spirituality comes from the Tao Te Ching. They are dedicated to shedding their possessions. Kumrits lives year round in a camper. The two men are constantly chal…

Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil

By Peter Montgomery

…any years ago, so we must apply these principles to the way Americans work today, to employees and employers: Christians have a responsibility to submit to the authority of their employers, since they are designated as part of God’s plan for the exercise of authority on the earth by man. Slavery also makes an appearance in “Indivisible,” a booklet of essays being aggressively promoted by the Heritage Foundation as part of its campaign to assert t…

The Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”

By Daniel Schultz

…utives or incompetent engineers or Obama or who-the-hell-ever we turn into today’s whipping boy. But the truth that everyone wants to deny is that the whole culture is sick from top to bottom. We’re all addicted to oil in ways we can’t even grasp, and nobody—nobody—has any plausible idea of how to break free from the system. There are plenty of ideas floating around, yes, but there are no easy answers to put into practice today. If there were, we’…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…(Praeger, release date: May 30, 2009). What inspired you to write Vampires Today? What sparked your interest? Some people think I study vampires simply because they are unusual. I’ve even been asked if I am a vampire myself. The reality is that I became interested in the vampire community when I learned of a massive survey being conducted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance (AVA). Their project was relevant to the sociology of knowledge: instead of de…

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…rove, and has already been proven, unlike Ike having to prove a negative.) Today, Obama denounced “sideshows and carnival barkers,” adding, “we don’t have time for this kind of silliness.” Which is exactly why he shouldn’t have bothered caving into their ridiculous demands; within moments Joseph Farah of WND decreed the release “raises as many questions than [sic] it answers.” That sideshow, although driven in recent weeks by Donald Trump, was dri…

Who Are Michigan Catholic Bishops to Judge?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…a jump from 34% in 2004, when the Michigan amendment was approved, to 59% today. For pity’s sake, even most young Republicans now favor marriage equality. As Mary E. Hunt has made clear, Pope Francis’s more compassionate words about gay priests hardly translate into more enlightened Roman Catholic teaching with regard to LGBT equality. But they do tend to move the needle out of a groove of judgment and combativeness that has proved divisive with…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…the spiritual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a conversation…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…also understood that being possessed by God can seem disturbingly similar. Today the faithful of Limburg view Christina Mirabilis as a saint, though she has never been officially recognized as such by the Church. The tale of Christina Mirabilis presents us with a reflection on the ways in which religion allows us to approach the sublimity of darkness, the profundity of horror. Her memorial day is July 24th, but we might claim Halloween her unoffic…

Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…of these past instances the path forward was easier to discern than one is today. But if we do make it out of this wilderness, I am certain the path for us will have something in common with the paths taken to escape these earlier times of desperation. I am certain that ours will likewise be a path marked by collective resistance to evil and collective refusal to submit to unjust power. If there is to be any lifeline in our time, that lifeline wil…