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Satanic or Systemic? Promise Keepers Are Back and Looking to End Racism Via ‘Trickle-Down Racial Reconciliation’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…racial reconciliation. Since its inception Promise Keepers have included African-American clergy and lay leaders who’ve had varying degrees of influence on the organization. In the rebooted Promise Keepers, notable pastors such as board member Donald Burgs, Jr. president of African American Fellowship of Southern Baptist Convention of Texas, and megachurch pastor Tony Evans, help steer the direction of the organization. Promise Keeper and former N…

Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

By Sarah Posner

…s a Southern Baptist preacher who so identifies with charismatics and Pentecostals that in 2008 he called himself a “Bapti-costal;” he’s a religious liberty crusader who so identifies with Catholicism that he has said, “we’re all Catholic now.” That was in 2012, discussing his opposition to the contraception coverage benefit in the Affordable Care Act. He doesn’t just oppose the benefit because, in his view, it violated the religious beliefs of ce…

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…s have had oral sex, including over 87% of non-virgins.) Then again, in America, these “neutral” sodomy laws were almost always prosecuted against gays only, and since the medieval period there has never been any doubt as to who the real Sodomites are, notwithstanding the broader definition. Jordan goes further, arguing persuasively that the way sodomia was defined has permanently colored how we conceive of sexuality. Sodomy is defined by genitali…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…ongress to establish a “Commission to Study the Reparation Proposals for African-Americans,” as urged by Congressman John Conyers’ (D-MI) H.R. 40, a bill that’s been introduced (and ignored) multiple times. Following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Coates reiterated the urgency of his case, clarifying that a call for reparations is not an exercise in political theory but rather a suggested praxis connecting directly to dignity,…

Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

…ir fellow actors, or even God himself. The critique of hypocrisy as a rhetorical weapon is indigenous to the Christian tradition, even to the point of being serviceable in the critique of other Christians. A famous American example was launched by Christian abolitionists against Christian slaveholders. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of a Slave is premised on this critique of hypocrisy, his belief that you couldn’t possibly be loving yo…

Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion

By Jeffrey Feldman

…ome specifics about Islam in those parts of the world germane to our lives today. American attitudes towards Iran and Iraq, not to mention our foreign policy choices, would be much more sound if we spent some time learning how to distinguish between Sunni, Shi’a, and Sufi Islam, and about which political movements in Iran and Iraq believe Muslim clerics should run the government versus those that do not. If we had understood those distinctions in…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…, without the pressures of the kind of faceless international trade we see today. Today consumers face a more insidious question: What if the very morality of such a “local” act is being marketed in its own right? What if we are told in advertising campaigns that it’s about participating in a “local” culture which is “authentically” ours, when that culture is neither local nor authentic? The problem for global consumers today is that all marketpla…

The Divorce Rate Is Falling. Shouldn’t That Mean the Sky Isn’t?

By Sarah Posner

…han same-sex marriage will ever do.” (UPDATE: Mohler addresses the article today in his daily podcast, The Briefing.) But what if marriage, overall, isn’t on the rocks because of the so-called “divorce culture,” but is actually more stable precisely because of the very factors the Christian right frequently points to as causes of the “decline” of marriage: feminism, the broadening of reproductive rights and options, and cohabitation? Miller explai…

Pakistan and Iran, a War on Two Fronts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rgency to the Mid-east peace process. And yet the US president, when asked today why his attempts to move that process along never made any headway, noted rather lamely that “they’ve been fighting there for a long time.” It was clear from his subsequent remarks that he was thinking at least as much about biblical history as about the post-1948 era. And yet 1948 provides one interpretive key to the whole mess. Israel, India and Pakistan are all thr…

New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…that, while the book was originally published in 2003, it continues to be promoted as “an essential resource” as its publisher, Ascension Press, noted in an email today. As documented in the Bridge Initiative report, Spencer has written for numerous Catholic news outlets, and he has been cited as an expert in others. While some of these are fringe websites, like Church Militant, others are more mainstream, like Our Sunday Visitor, one of the most…