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New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…Ed Litton’s character and positions give me hope that significant positive change is possible for the denomination.” Indeed, Litton agreed to an independent audit of the SBC’s handling of sexual abuse issues, a move Southern Baptist author and speaker Daniel Darling lauded in his triumphant USA Today opinion piece as an important step to “stop sexual abuse in [SBC] churches.” While a third party investigation into the denomination’s approach to ha…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…putting people over profit. A real fast is one in which you must actually change something about your life. And that’s a far heavier lift than not eating for 24 hours. Is fasting essential? Fasting from food? If you’re into spiritual asceticism. Once you get to the point of hallucination from hunger, it can be quite revelatory. But, it’s inessential in my opinion. Fasting like Isaiah? That is the most necessary task set before humanity today. I’m…

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…ancient and tumultuous relationship with animals can, among other things, change the way we think about our “all too human” lives. This relatively new inquiry is often loosely described as “animal studies.” I will admit, I find this whole speculative and ontological debate a bit dizzying—both personally and intellectually. But I’m absolutely fixated on it. I think about it all the time. What would really happen if the abstract, theoretical line b…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…illing is that we in Louisiana are the most vulnerable in terms of climate change,” said Len Bahr, former director of the Governor’s Applied Coastal Science Program (and veteran of five gubernatorial administrations). “Yes, the oil industry reflects an enormous part of the economy of southeastern Louisiana. So I can understand why people feel that way. But some of the people who oppose the moratorium are the same people who object to any limitatio…

Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

By Gabriel Mckee

…nd no time traveler can determine the proper amount or type of meddling to change them. That’s the case in “Vincent and the Doctor.” The primary reason the Doctor and Amy travel back to 1890 is to locate and defeat the frightening creature they see in one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings. But once they arrive in the artists’ era, they can’t help but interfere—telling van Gogh, the subject of much mockery and derision in his town, that he is to be r…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…t backlash against voting rights, workers’ rights, LGBTQI+ equity, climate change, and secular freedoms. The Supreme Court’s Christian Nationalist agenda underscores the devastating public health and safety threat that white supremacy poses. Not only will draconian restrictions on abortion further destabilize the lives of poor and working class women of color with no safety net but they will widen the multigenerational wealth gap in communities di…

New Book on Trump and Evangelicals Gets it Mostly Right

By Greg Carey

…as a given, but his change of mind on same-sex marriage—if it was indeed a change of mind—was an unwelcome surprise. Fea perceives attacks on religious liberty in the Affordable Care Act’s requirements concerning birth control and the Obama Justice Department’s enforcement of civil rights for LGBT persons. All of these factors motivated evangelicals to believe that they and their movement were under siege. But evangelicals will also feel Fea’s sti…

Religious Right Split on Arizona Immigration Law

By Sarah Posner

…eral government fails in its duty to stop illegal immigration is to either change the Constitution to allow the states to do the job or change the federal elected officials and replace them with those who will do the job. This is truly notable not only because Staver splits with Sekulow, but because he splits with the premise of tea party support for SB 1070: that the federal government is inept, and the states therefore have to defend themselves…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…t Islamist, and not explicitly secularist. Moreover, there are of course a number of practical reasons the Islamist parties may have done so well: they are well-organized, they have great social service and charity programs, and they have won the respect of many of their fellow citizens for their years facing oppression, discrimination, and outright torture. Once they’re actually in government, they will be judged on their performance, and not on…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…gside other conservative efforts, in Louisiana and elsewhere, to radically change the landscape of American education and to ultimately transform society into the anti-democratic image of the New Apostolic Reformation. And America’s education system is just one of the core institutions under attack by the NAR, a global neo-charismatic and Pentecostal movement of leadership networks that are, according to Frederick Clarkson and André Gagne, on the…