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What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…Christ & in reparation to his Sacred Heart wounded by sin.” https://twitter.com/taylorrmarshall/status/1186212361096646656 Catholic conservatives understand that some images, especially female images, are simply too powerful to risk having around lest change follow. The original wooden statue was called “Our Lady of the Amazon,” a representation of Mary similar to Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Lujan, or Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like the others, i…

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…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…is informed by Trinity Broadcasting, the Word Network, and Streaming Faith.com. Just the same, for sociologists and communication theorists who have examined the world of evangelical religious broadcasting, it is predominantly framed as the domain of the white, religious right. This book, then, is my attempt to illumine, unpack, and interrogate the theological and social orientations of prominent black religious broadcasters in order to underst…

The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…-funded schools, colleges and universities across America.” https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1504209593139798018?s=20&t=WEnRqUAaWmEAnBbeLaLUbg As Southwick informed me, the CCCU has intervened in the suit, Elizabeth Hunter, et al., v. U.S. Department of Education, as have three Christian colleges represented by none other than ADF. (Two of these schools, Corban University and William Jessup University, are CCCU member institutions.) The plainti…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…med to conclude that it was mostly a political confrontation. Worldnetdaily.com’s report (seemingly based upon the single testimony of a Western missionary) told of “mass graves” filled with piles of dead Hmong Christians mowed down by government guns. The report also warned of the danger of erroneous teachings on the end times (in presumed contrast with the missionary’s slightly different premillenialist predilections). Curiously absent from this…

Common Ground on Gays? Like Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…thin earshot. Former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt of PrayInJesusName.com read from Romans: “And they that commit such things are worthy of death.” No common ground there, I fear. Even evangelical prince-of-a-guy Rick Warren will call abortion a “holocaust” but will decline to speak out against a proposed Ugandan law that will imprison and even execute known gays and lesbians (and many more simply suspected or accused of being gay or lesbian…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

…lood on their hands, to shed blood, if it means advancing their privilege, comfort, and security. In the wake of Jan 6, we now also have more visual evidence documenting white willingness to create wide-scale destruction and to undermine basic social functioning for the sake of protecting white supremacy. We are confronted yet again by the sanctity afforded white lives (even when engaging in violent and criminal activity) by the state, in comparis…

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…ic and Pentecostal vein, and these are explicitly multiracial movements. A number of the more farsighted leaders are therefore making a conscious effort to include and empower nonwhite individuals and groups. At the very least, they are doing what they can to collect their votes. Jim Domen is one such leader. A California pastor and the founder of a group called Church United, he has built his voter-outreach machine around the idea of racial inclu…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…sucking Eddie Long! You’re wrong!” She got over a million views. So what’s coming in are a huge number of statements. Many of them are typically homophobic, “God is not mocked,” “you’re going to hell” and all of that. But there are a great many people saying, “No.” And this is down the line. A white former Pentecostal wrote about how homophobia ruined his youth. He said he went to Lee College, which is one of the most famous and earliest white Pen…

Is Torture Utilitarian?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ms. And that leads to some very bizarre moral reasoning. Utilitarianism is number-crunching, but of a very peculiar kind; in its crudest forms, it seems to imply that you can measure pleasure and pain, and that by maximizing the pleasure of the greatest number of people, you may be able to justify the infliction of pain on a select few. We see that strange logic at work in these memoranda. First, the CIA justified waterboarding with the “ticking t…