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Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…ral damage of our own inner struggles; occasions for testing, edifying, forming, and reforming ourselves? No, cultivating our own individual gardens, whether performed atheistically or theologically, is not a sufficient response to my mind. If the Lisbon earthquake has anything to tell us in the face of Haiti here and now, it would have less to do with edification through the contemplation of suffering and more to do with some very practical advic…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…Toni M. Bond, Co-Founder, Interfaith Voices for Reproductive Justice Rev. Mitzi J. Smith, PhD, J Davison Philips Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, the Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brite Divinity School Rev. Theresa S. Thames, DMin, Associate Dean of Rel…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…he left by party affiliation if not by ideological descriptor. Only a determined minority of social conservatives continues to move to the right. It’s easy to get lost in the fog of math, but the underlying point here should be clear: not everyone is a Christian, and nowhere near everyone is a social conservative. Why, then, are those perspectives to be privileged in our political discourse? The answer, according to Jones, is that because some soc…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…, and while her right-wing Christian politics were and remain awful, her coming out generated a great deal of buzz about trans people. Despite the inevitable misgendering tantrums lobbed at Jenner by her fellow White evangelicals, Americans were learning about trans people, and that encouraged me as a trans woman who had yet to come out. I felt like acceptance was just around the corner. How quickly times change. Things went downhill fast when Don…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…e group Susan B. Anthony List, or Jim Daly, the new head of Focus on the Family, or Robert George mastermind of the Manhattan Declaration) legal scholar Melissa Rogers is most decidedly not a member of the Christian right. Rogers, who has worked for the pro-church-state-separation group the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty, and now has an affiliation with the Brookings Institution, is one of the country’s best authorities on church-sta…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…nd decline? On the other hand, what alternative forms, if any, of “church” might people be forming to replace the religious communities that they have left? 2. Increased LGBT Acceptance Within Evangelicalism Although issues related to LGBT identities have long been a part of Mainline Protestant denominations such that LGBT individuals are largely accepted as just another member of the church, evangelicals have taken a much more adversarial stance…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…for Episcopal dioceses, parishes and leaders for emerging/fresh expression mission with an Anglican ethos. So that interested parties can connect with each other, she’s planned events in Portland (June 10-12) and Baltimore (September 24th-25). Concurrent with these developments, in fall 2010, Church Publishing (publisher for the US Episcopal Church) will partner with UK based SCM-Canterbury Press to launch the Mission-shaped Church Series in the U…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…s-speaks—malapropism is too elite, one could even say too Yale-like— and comical facial gestures. More importantly, he is heavily criticized for his policies, whether they be economic, foreign, or faith-based. The reality is that he has contributed greatly to the one area that American public life has been sorely lacking: religion. I don’t mean the practice of religion; Americans represent one of the most ritualistically observant countries of dev…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…were more mundane and predictable: Section Two redefined how we distribute numbers of representatives state-by-state, by “counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed”; and Section Three excluded from future service any member of the government who had previously sworn an oath of office to the State and then joined the Confederacy in open rebellion. Predictable stuff, really. After winning the War, Washington int…