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RDPulpit: Politics and the Sin of Caring Too Much

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, we’re wrong to invest hope for security in the government or any elected official because they will ultimately fail us, no matter how pure their motivations. In Luke 4:1-13, we find Jesus facing the temptation of worldly power. He stands on the parapet of the temple in Jerusalem as the devil promises him ultimate security—the angels will catch him. No matter how dire the situation, his security in the world is assured. German Catholic theologian…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…word that a student organization called Regent Democrats has been granted official status at Regent University. The report, by Steven G. Vegh of the Virginian-Pilot, suggested that the school’s chancellor himself, Pat Robertson, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, gave his approval to the new group. “People are realizing that being Christian does not always equal Republican,” Heather Carr, a divinity student at Regent, tol…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ad criticized Greece for bring one of the last countries in Europe without official recognition for same-sex couples. More on reaction by Ambrosios from Philip Chrysopoulos at Greek Reporter: The Holy Synod decided to adhere to its previous position, namely that the Church of Greece denounces alternative family forms because they are a devaluation of the holy concept of the Christian family. It is also a devaluation of human life, turning the holy…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…physically we are here in a cage. We are freer than the people sitting opposite us for the prosecution because we can say everything we like, and we do, but those people sitting there say only what political censorship allows them to say. They can’t speak words like “punk prayer” or “Virgin Mary, Banish Putin!” They can’t say the lines from our punk prayer that have to do with the political system. Perhaps they think it wouldn’t be a bad thing to…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…has asked VICE News not to name—and a corresponding Twitter account and website are all part of what Bryan Price, the director of the Combating Terrorism Center, calls an “inbound marketing” strategy. Countering violent extremism programming, or CVE, is on the rise at home and abroad. The domestic side of the story is receiving solid coverage by outlets like AlterNet and substantial pushback from an active coalition of civil society and civil libe…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…re-sister was in Czechoslovakia). I fear they will be co-opted by the same officials who now denounce them. Already the churchmen use them. Instead of ignoring the women and letting the chips call where they may, Roman officials have found that by excommunicating women priests they have a convenient way to distract from the criminal activity of priest pedophiles and bishops who covered up their crimes. Note that while every woman priest has been e…

The Muslim Ban May Be Unconstitutional, But It’s Not Un-American

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…legitimately placing America in danger. (The termination of such a senior official has not happened since Richard Nixon’s administration, which may be a cautionary tale in the American narrative.) As ISIS praises the move, many senior officials of the State and Justice Departments fail to see how this even advantages the existential America. America benefits from foreign lives artistically, economically, intellectually, religiously and technologi…