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Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…me out following the storm, before electricity had even been restored, the phones of every pastor in town started ringing. If we send you stuff, can you distribute it? Sure, we replied, why not? God knows, there’s no shortage of need around here. And we are the church, after all. We can do this! Little did we know… One of my ecumenical colleagues welcomed four school buses to his church parking lot. Each was crammed full of secondhand clothing and…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…tieth century, New Mexicans were exposed to abusive priests at a rate much higher—50% higher, or more—than Catholics in the dioceses named in the latest grand jury report. How do we begin to talk about the astronomical rate of Catholic sexual abuse in New Mexico? The first thing to recognize is this: While clerical abuse in New Mexico has its own sordid history in Via Coelis and its associates, high rates of abuse span Catholic colonial geographie…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…some sort of authoritative merit. Here’s the news flash: They don’t. It’s high time we stop giving a fuck what the evangelical, anti-gay Christians say, or believe, about homosexuality. Why? Because they don’t have a clue. Not just about science and biology and years and years of research around the subject, but because they don’t have a clue about Jesus or God or anything they claim to have a corner on. In reality, they are just as dumb as any o…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…on or model can lead to spiritual impairment and danger if the fidelity is high and the purposes are bad—such as experimenting with actions contrary to God’s commandments or enticing us to think or do things we would not otherwise think or do “because it is only a game.”… The concerns I raise are not new; they apply equally to other types of media, such as television, movies, and music. But in a cyber world, these challenges are more pervasive and…

Hell Is (For) Other People

By Peter Laarman

…Miller lets Parry tell us that his universalism is actually grounded in a high view of Scripture, a high Christology, and a strong sense of God’s irresistible grace. (Take that, John Calvin.) The big question under all of this, as Miller well understands, is not so much about God’s nature or God’s will as it is about our own. Why do so many people demand Eternal Conscious Torment for evildoers (mere annihilation isn’t enough for them)? Why, for t…

How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?

By Shaul Magid

…p rallies in Flatbush and Boro Park, a pair of Brooklyn neighborhoods with high numbers of Orthodox Jews, illustrates a new kind of political populism seldom seen in communities that often prefer to stay out of the spotlight. The question as to why Hasidim overwhelmingly supported an immoral, autocratic, and reactionary candidate with such verve and vigor is multivalent. One reading may have to do with a lopsided equation of integration. That is,…

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists

By Beatrice Marovich

…nked to the assertion that morality comes to human life from somewhere “on high,” which might be taken to mean that human life receives its morality from a transcendent, out-of-this-world, divine. But de Waal notes that top down morality isn’t a purely religious problem. He attacks, for example, the philosophical presumption mentioned earlier, that morality is a matter of reasoning—that we reason our way “up” to moral action or decision. Likewise,…

Hey Michele Bachmann,
I Got Your Nobel Laureates Right Here

By Lauri Lebo

…r to back up her assertions with actual evidence. Last month, a New Jersey high school student challenged Bachmann to a debate about the US Constitution. Ann Myers said the congresswoman frequently distorts facts about the document and the Founding Fathers. In response, commenters on tea party web sites started making threats of violence against the student for having the audacity to question Bachmann. The 16-year-old Myers says that some commente…

The Ethics of Everest

By Michael Schulson

…ns to climb, and remoter ones, and even, arguably, taller ones. But as the highest mountain in the world, Everest is quantifiably unique. It offers us awe, verified by geology. Getting there is a modern sort of transcendence, driven by high-tech polymers and human willpower. Like much else that is both iconic and profitable, Everest creates a kind of moral vacuum. In multiple recent cases, groups of climbers have passed dying comrades on their way…

Creationist Theme Park Gets $43 Million in Tax Rebates

By Lauri Lebo

…smaller than its actual biblical dimensions. The Ark was at least 45 feet high, minus the required dimensions for hull structure.3 If the three decks that the Lord specified for its construction were evenly spaced from bottom to top, they would have offered about 15 feet of clearance. Tyrannosaurs could reach 40 feet in length, and the adults would therefore not have fit well on such a deck. But why would Noah have taken older dinosaurs on board,…