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RDPulpit: Obama Missed the Hope in State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…by a consumerist capitalist system. This hope is rooted in the covenantal relationship between God and people which resists the reduction of personhood to productivity or purchasing power. However, a prophetic response to the economy roots itself not in exhortations to greater charity, nor in strident denunciations of those held to blame for the crisis, but in the anticipation of what the free God intends to do for us. Whenever people yearn for a…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…social media: Simply LIKING children is not as common as people assume. I felt intensely when I was growing up that a lot of adults—relatives, teachers, neighbors— really hated kids, and tried to disguise it with a lot of for-your-own-good lecturing and gratuitous punishment, plus nasty aggressive humor that was supposedly “just kidding.” Meeting a benevolent adult was always a great relief to me. Cleary was benevolent, and genuinely seemed to lik…

How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

By Peter Laarman

…as news that many Christians believe Jesus urged his disciples to arm themselves? Well, here you will find the firm scriptural foundation for Second Amendment rights! I value this part of the book for being especially clear about the deeply anti-Semitic basis of so-called Christian Zionism. In fact, Keddie is clearsighted throughout on the anti-Semitic core of the conservative Christian project. This vileness is completely of a piece with the sick…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…tself, and if one of Trump’s preferred Supreme Court nominees is confirmed, the nation may be in for a religious reckoning, where not burdening “sincerely held beliefs” categorically outweighs protecting civil and human rights….

God Promises to Open our Graves: A Theology for the Age of AIDS

By César J. Baldelomar

…n” bodies by teaching the power of hope amid personal and social ruin, as well as help many rediscover the beauty and power of relationships based not solely on sex. The sexual desire of beautiful bodies can transform into an erotic desire for friendship, trust, and love. These “ugly” bodies, however, must first recognize themselves as beautiful bodies. And here is where a theologian might invoke Jesus. Mark D. Jordan, in his book Telling Truths i…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…al. To say nothing of random hangnails and mosquitoes in the night! So I feel a little better that I get to go there make umrah, go out of ihram, and then make ihram again for hajj. Maybe I will be out of the excitement and exuberance. Sorta like skydiving tandem before following up my lessons for free-fall skydiving. That way I can focus on the details I am trying to learn now and be better prepared. As far as umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, goes;…

The Contraceptive Mandate and Animal Suffering

By Frances Kissling

…be stunned before slaughter. These groups claim the law would limit their religious freedom by altering mandated slaughter rituals which require the animal be conscious when killed. For Singer, the proper alternative is for the religiously observant to abstain from eating meat. Eating meat is not mandated by Islam or Judaism and, if they don’t eat meat, there is no need to slaughter animals humanely or cruelly. The Dutch Parliament—in an action…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…criticize all religions, Islam included, but that doesn’t mean we should feel free to deride and scorn its adherents. It should go without saying that this isn’t a problem with atheism, but it is a problem among atheists and it’s one that is being largely ignored. 9/11 is frequently lifted up as the genesis of “New Atheism,” and it’s not uncommon to see people at atheist conferences wearing shirts declaring that “9/11 was a faith-based initiative….

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…nity. They haven’t been helping rising generations to explore what deep-level self-respect means, which is a very different thing from the misplaced sense of entitlement that is all too common among the young. To appreciate the spiritual achievement that is proper self-respect, we need only to recall the enormous spiritual achievement of the modern civil rights movement—the songs and sermons that forged a people’s fierce determination to stand tal…

Is the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?

By Joseph Laycock

…While he found no basis for the Panic, he did find Satanic philosophy compelling and ultimately came to identify as a non-theistic Satanist. Later, as a graduate student studying cognitive science, he became further outraged by fear mongering. He found that certain therapists were still encouraging claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and even using hypnosis and other therapies to induce “memories” of abuse in their patients. He began to write ar…