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On Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”

By Sarah Posner

…universities in the United States. Many Adventists have served in the U.S. military, but refused to carry weapons. Others served in the medical corps. Still others, such as the young medical students at the Adventist Loma Linda University medical school, volunteered during World War II to be medical test subjects rather than engaging in combat. “The language of support for guns is totally outside the rhetoric and beliefs of the Adventist church,”…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

…as beloved, and to the Sunshine Cathedral Metropolitan Community Church in Florida where John and Charles worshipped. In my dreams. Alas, not even in the blog attached to the Jesuit magazine America has there been a peep about one of their own. Perhaps such Jesuit matters are handled behind closed closet doors, but that is precisely the problem. John McNeill paid a steep price for coming out early and often. I will be long dead, but I fully expect…

Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ndez, a Native leader married to a Spaniard and residing in St. Augustine, Florida at Misión Nombre de Dios. She worked to feed the hungry and became a Catholic without abandoning many of her own traditions. From now on when I hear St. Serra, I will choose to remember her name, and Toypurina’s, and countless others. When I published my remarks earlier this year about why Serra was not a saint, I was speaking to his placement within the complex sit…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…springtime of evangelization in those immense territories, extending from Florida to California.” A recent Fernanda Santos story in the New York Times reported that the Spanish-speaking Serra has spiritual and cultural importance to some Latinos/as. In April, Vatican official Guzman Carriquiry, who is from Uruguay, said canonization would help overcome lingering anti-Catholic and anti-Hispanic sentiments in America. But speakers at today’s press…

Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?

By Ed Simon

…lish but by French Huguenots in 1564 at Fort Caroline (today St. Augustine Florida). In understanding the complexity of early American religion one also needs to take into account the presence of Yoruba and Igbo believers, as well as Muslims, first brought into the English speaking colonies as African slaves a decade after Archer died. One should also consider the intricacies in New England religion (which didn’t just contain monolithic Puritanism…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…arriage” nationally, one notable evangelical marriage quietly collapsed in Florida. Reverend Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin), grandson of Billy Graham (and nephew to Franklin), admitted to an extramarital affair. Though the timing of this incident is of some interest, the story grabs my attention because of the way it has been told. I’ve been studying the narrative elements of evangelical testimony— the crafting of life stories for a r…

Rubio’s Failure Reveals Dearth of Moderates in GOP

By Patricia Miller

…y try to do something. Of course, as his final humiliation at the hands of Florida voters shows, it’s hard to build a relationship with your constituents when you run on the pretense of going to Washington and not doing anything for them. Of course, Ted Cruz is an even a bigger advocate of tearing the government down, and he won his state of Texas and almost 2.5 times the number of delegates. But just as Donald Trump has found his constituency amo…

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…rsoll, associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida and author of the forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, Rebuilding God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction. Rooted in Calvinist theology, Christian Reconstruction teaches that society’s only legitimate “authority” is granted by God, to different “spheres,” such as church, family, or the government. In this theocratic view, the government…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…worry about all this but-are-they-people? stuff, too. There’s a pastor in Florida who’s been looking at how to win over AI souls when the time comes. HL: Ah, interesting. I wonder how you win over an AI soul? And I suppose you might worry both how we treat AI souls for their own sakes, but also what’s the most humane way to treat things that humans almost certainly will have empathy for, while remaining agnostic about the nature of AI souls. MHS:…

No Bible-as-State-Book for Tennessee as Legislators Suffer “Symbol Fatigue”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tions. Decades later, in 1927, the legislatures of seven states — Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregan, Texas, and Wyoming — decided they needed state birds thanks to the efforts of progressive women’s clubs and their connection to the Audubon Society. And so it went, until recent years, when legislatures have begun to experience symbol fatigue. Part of it may have to do with how state symbol initiatives have become handy ways of introducing…