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Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…es and Anderson themselves have done in their capital ventures—modeled the ways in which financial capital can merge with spiritual capital to generate social capital. If I had a few million to spare, that’s surely the way I’d go. But I don’t. And neither, most likely, does St. Whatsit down the block, making both of us less able to weather market turbulence or to participate in capital markets in balanced, sustainable ways. Herein, of course, was…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…, but he has been able to ride the desire to regain lost privilege all the way to a fat bank account. 5. There are limits to how far one can run with an act like this, however. Franklin Graham—son of Billy and president of the large evangelical charity Samaritan’s Purse—has never been as grifty a customer as Sekulow. But he’s been no less a culture warrior for conservative evangelicals, and no less a stout defender of Pres. Trump. This does not si…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…eland Security to build a wall along the Mexican border and increasing the number of border officers, the president signed an executive order that, according to the New York Times “suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.” The re…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…movement and the like, I think is unstoppable.” Frank agreed: “One of the ways in which anti-gay conservative groups have been successful in the past has been through dominating the public conversation. They’ve been able to demonize queer people and perpetuate myths that LGBTQ people are sick, that they’re dangerous, that they’re pathological. And I think that what the past decades have shown us is the gains that LGBTQ communities have made in ch…

Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…lesiastical and personal. The essential dimension is that the husband is always the one who leads and takes action; the wife is always the one who receives and nurtures. This ‘feminine genius’ that John Paul talked about is located in women’s wombs; women are essentially maternal and that dimension defines them. Sister Chris Schenk, founder of FutureChurch, said that this subordination of women continues to be reflected internally, where “women ex…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. Even here in my own incredibly conservative state of South Carolina, the number of same-sex couples increased and a quarter of them are raising children. It’s those kinds of facts that have right-wing media like the Christian Post scratching their heads, with headlines like this that rival anything over at The Onion: “Gay Couples Spread in U.S., Behave Like Straight Couples” Um, yeah, well, duh. What exactly are gay couples supposed to act like?…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…, self-harm, and suicide among LGBT youth and adults. Of course, a growing number of churches and denominations today have rejected such a destructive understanding of human sexuality. Religion Dispatches recently compiled a list of the official positions on LGBT issues currently taught by various Christian denominations. According to this list, mainline Protestant denominations such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church claim th…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irds of marriage ceremonies are celebrated in Catholic churches. While the number of Irish people who describe themselves as Catholic has fallen slowly to 84 percent, according to the 2011 census, churches began to empty before the abuse scandals and only around one-third attend church weekly. For the handful of priests who have said they will vote ‘Yes’, the church has missed an opportunity. “I think on this one, they’re doing themselves a lot of…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…She, like Arwyn Jackson and most Christian abolitionists reaching all the way back to Wilberforce’s day, sees this as a matter of respecting the value of people made in the image of God. Slavery “is a travesty compared to the way God wants this world to be,” James says. But she adds, “We’ve got to stop the trafficking, the prostitution, the pornography.” A House Divided In nearly every conversation I have with Christians about sexual slavery, th…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…eligion by conquest.”10 Students reading those pages would naturally come away with the idea that Christianity’s spread was more peaceful than that of Islam. In fact, Islam spread at times by conquest (for instance, in North Africa), and at other times through trade, settlement, and missionary work (for example, to Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia). Christianity, too, spread by conquest—most notably, under the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne,…