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You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…written by oppressed people,” she says. “My people were shocked and for a minute they were fearful as to what was going to happen” says Perkins of his congregation. “That shock and fear has subsided, because we are people of faith and ultimately we know that our trust is in God.” “We are angry, we are grieving, we are organizing” says Khang, who challenges white evangelicals to listen to the concerns of evangelicals of color with more care and se…

Sam Harris Says Qur’an “Not That Good”

By Hussein Rashid

…an the Quran.” This quote is simply a re-working of Thomas Macaulay’s 1835 Minute on Education, in which he says “I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.” It’s amazing how imperialism and racism are so closely intertwined and persistent, and always under a veneer of civilization. I know Harris thinks he is being original and provocati…

Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ligious convictions as convictions. Because that’s not disagreement. It’s dishonest. Incidentally, it’s also dishonest to act like our convictions have nothing whatever to do with Jesus or the Bible. Yes, gee, however could we connect the dots between Jesus of Nazareth and a principled critiques of the capacity for religions to collude with political power brokers in ways that abuse the most vulnerable? Well, I simply can’t imagine! Give me a minu…

Muslims and Christians Bond Over Gay Rights

By Hussein Rashid

…ud of on this front, they got their members to perform an action, and they a bunch of ‘phobes (Islamo-, homo-, xeno-, etc.) to like them for a minute. Jackasses leading dumbasses. You can debate who’s who….

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…k he thinks it doesn’t really matter for them. Let’s drive forward two thousand years. What does your reading of Revelation offer to the contemporary struggle over religion and politics in America? I do think, as an American, that the separation of religion and politics is very important because we have so many religious groups. But I realize that it’s not enough just to complain when politicians fuse them, because politics and religion have been…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…of authors, a “regret[table] failure” that was rectified only in 2010 by a minute of the AFSC Board restoring his name to that list. Martin Luther King relied on Rustin’s advice and expertise, but that did not always insulate the committed activist (or his role in the movement) from the climate of the time. Adam Clayton Powell, the powerful African American congressman from Harlem, threatened to spread false rumors that King and Rustin were having…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

Penitentially present to RD readers for just a minute during Holy Week, I want to welcome a new Kindle-only book from Tony Jones: A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin. I have never met Tony Jones, and I was initially inclined to offer a sneer instead of a review. I am still inclined toward sniping, as you will see, but the easy snipe just won’t do this time. I’ve thought about it, and (God forbid) I’ve even prayed abou…

Lou Engle’s Bizarro Esther

By Katie Toth

…powerful ‘all-women’s gathering’ features Engle monologuing for the first minute and a half while two female colleagues—including Allred—nod enthusiastically. We should probably also just shrug when we learn that for Engle, all-women’s gatherings include “2000 ‘Mordecais’ we are calling to pray alongside the women.” In Christian patriarchy circles, female repentance and male guidance all fit into the common theme of submission/domination that’s t…

When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: ‘Ryan Budget’ Edition

By Daniel C. Maguire

…modesty in their requests. With the military budget around $2 million per minute, there is no need to further feed that black hole in the economy—but feed it Ryan would. Kill-power is prized more highly than Head Start and Medicare. Enter the Real Catholic Social Teaching When the real Catholic social teaching enters the conversation it’s nothing less than a wake-up call to the modern world. The cumbersome title of the Vatican document signals it…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…icket line in hopes of preventing other women from having abortions. Karen Santorum, Rick Santorum’s wife, may well be on a related version of that trajectory, repenting for having spent her 20s living with a man, 40 years her senior, who helped found an abortion clinic. “Women who are having abortions, especially religious women, feel that their only option is to go ahead and have the abortion, say that they really didn’t have any other choice, […