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Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…oming explicit. This beast is rising out of the sea for all to behold. His number is 666. He has always been there. He finds covert ways to carry out his mission, but there are times when the beast steps fully into the light, making it easier to discern allegiances. These moments accentuate the vast chasm between a theology of the cross and a theology of glory, and it is our responsibility to expose the latter’s deceit. A theology of glory, said M…

Taking the Christ Back Out of Christmas: Secularizing the Season

By C. Joshua Villines

…The first of these points is perhaps the most important. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day is not, in fact, the “Christmas Season.” It has become the Christmas Shopping Season, but that is a very different animal. Identifying this time of year with Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity, Jesus, the Nativity or anything theological. Instead, advertisers and shopkeepers use the “Christmas Season” as an emotional lure to persuad…

American Christmas (Shopping) and the Protestant Reformation

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…w; Christmas is celebrated on December 25th (or January 6th, or 7th, depending on your kind of Orthodoxy). It does not begin the day after Thanksgiving. At least that much is clear in Rome. …

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…nstitution. At an event held at the Capitol Visitors Center shortly before Thanksgiving last year, Islamophobic agitator Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy put on a panel of speakers, including Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who urged Congress to investigate how shari’ah law poses a dire threat to the Constitution. Gaffney’s “Team B” report on shari’ah law, released earlier last fall, found favor with Republicans like Rep. Trent Franks (AZ…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…persistent theme of indebtedness. For many authors, gratitude is not about thanksgiving, but instead about calculating what we owe in return for the things we are given. And I was alarmed to see how this sense of gratitude as debt was leveraged politically to articulate positions that, to me, stand contrary to the aims of a democracy that seeks to ensure that everyone, not just the well off and well connected, is able to live and live well. In a n…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…black and white evangelical leaders tried working together. At the seminal Thanksgiving Workshops, annual meetings in which evangelical luminaries tried forging a progressive coalition, black leaders like John Perkins and William Pannell advanced conversations about combatting racism within white evangelical culture. Discussions flourished momentarily, but support from white evangelicals eventually waned. (The same pattern played out with women.)…

SCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess

By Andrew L. Seidel

…includes legislative prayer, George Washington declaring a day of national thanksgiving, a disembodied quote from the Northwest Ordinance, and a line plucked from Washington’s Farewell Address about “religion and morality.” These are some of the favorite talking points and myths about our history. They do not reflect a country that was founded on Christian principles so much as a willingness to revise history in an attempt to prove that point. I a…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…persistent theme of indebtedness. For many authors, gratitude is not about thanksgiving, but instead about calculating what we owe in return for the things we are given. And I was alarmed to see how this sense of gratitude as debt was leveraged politically to articulate positions that, to me, stand contrary to the aims of a democracy that seeks to ensure that everyone, not just the well off and well connected, is able to live and live well. In a n…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…ut to one side of the room and ignored, like the crazy distant relative at Thanksgiving. But the passages skipped at the constitutional reading on Thursday were not the equivalent of the crazy distant relative. Instead, they were our immediate family members. The constitutional fundamentalism of Rep. Goodlatte wants to deny the fact that they sat at the head of the table in our origins, and that they no longer do so because the evolving Constituti…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ns to develop sensitive, local pastoral arrangements for public prayer and thanksgiving with same-sex couples at these key moments in their lives.” The breakdown was as follows-clergy 56 for, and 72 against; laity 90 for and 104 against. There were nine clergy and 15 laity abstentions. Almost every speaker against the motion was from Northern Ireland with Rev Trevor Johnston of Connor diocese describing the motion as “impossible” adding that “inbu…