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Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…uential to their public personae but whose fluency in the holy plays out in, well, mysterious ways. Lana Del Rey’s catalogue runs deep with both religious imagery and sentiment; waves of apostasy crash over moments of divine revelation and then reverse course back into faith again. She may have claimed “God’s dead…[and] baby, that’s alright with me” on the track “Gods and Monsters,” but a declaration of death is just a roundabout way of affirming…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…hristian Culture, the Sheffield Centre, Children’s Sunday school attendance, for instance, has drastically plunged over the past century, dropping from 80 percent at the start of the century to 12 percent. In an article I penned for Yale Divinity School’s Reflections magazine, I observed that explorations of alternative worship/emerging church culture have been transpiring over in the UK for decades. In 2004, the Church of England responded to thi…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…n II’s sessions overflowed to Roman restaurants. Despite the spread of sole, bass, and shrimp on display in one Life photograph, the caption noted that the picture was taken on a Wednesday, so the bishops chose steak. Ultimately, Life would offer far fewer Catholic cover images than Time, but those it did feature suggested that Catholic lives were also family lives, sacramental lives, and American lives—regardless of one’s position within the Chur…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…void the havoc of the earthquake. The cataclysm haunted European literature, art, philosophy, and theology for decades. The economy of Europe was subsequently affected for some time to come. The significance of the catastrophe, especially its cause, weighed heavily on Europeans’ minds. That the event took place on a religious holiday, that it took out a major European capital, that the city was devoutly Catholic, all these aspects troubled ordinar…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there real…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…f Academic Affairs, Meadville Lombard Theological School Marsha Foster Boyd, PhD, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Luther Seminary The Rev. Vanessa Lovelace, PhD Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Lancaster Theological Seminary The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt President, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley CA Leah Gunning Francis, PhD VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Christian Theologi…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…one is a Christian, and nowhere near everyone is a social conservative. Why, then, are those perspectives to be privileged in our political discourse? The answer, according to Jones, is that because some social conservatives are willing to make a tentative step toward reconciliation in the interest of advancing other worthy causes, progressives ought to reciprocate. As the strong in the congregation at Corinth deferred to the weak, apparently prog…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…acceptance in the general public—even among progressive demographics. That, at least, is my grim takeaway from PRRI’s new report, “The Politics of Gender, Pronouns, and Public Education.” The overall positions of various demographics are mostly what you would expect them to be. The report singles out White evangelical Protestants multiple times as, unsurprisingly, America’s most singularly anti-trans demo. In 2021, for example, 86% of White evang…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ce, which I referred to above, discusses the abandonment of the “social issues” in favor of making “big government” (a.k.a. “socialism”) the core issue. This, though, isn’t new; it’s a repackaging of some very old themes of the Christian right….

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…the “evangelical industrial complex” (churches, schools, publishing houses, etc.), have the resources and desire to maintain their anti-LGBT stance. And this is not limited to white evangelicalism. The tension between the Black Lives Matter movement and some Black Church leaders is at least in part because of the legitimacy that BLM accords LGBT activists, who in turn are challenging traditional Church leaders as legitimate representatives of the…