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The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…even mentioned the roughly three million African American Catholics in the United States. Nor, have I given any space to the African-based traditions such as Voodoo, Ifa, and Santería–to name only a few–that claim the attention and adherence of many African Americans. And what about the three million African Americans who have embraced Sunni Islam? Do you get my point? Much of this nuance, these differences, are lost in sound bites and news report…

Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…orizes Anthony Comstock, the man who inspired the 1873 Comstock Act in the United States. According to Steven K. Green, this federal law enabled Comstock “to seize objectionable material and prosecute people for transmitting ‘obscene’ items [like birth control] through the US mail.” The law was finally struck down as unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in the 1965 decision Griswold v. Connecticut—though people like Rose would like…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…tical leaders, through a national popular vote. I’m in full agreement with Peter Laarman’s recent piece here on RD, “The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism” as he outlines the dangers of a permanent insurrectionist mindset on the part of the GOP to vanquish democratic rule in the United States in favor of white minority rule. Liberals and progressives had overestimated the degree to which demographic changes…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…rump’s object of worship is not the God of Abraham, nor is his duty to the United States. In the dizzying incoherence of his policies and moods, a thin thread of consistency in Trump’s positions endures: land borders themselves are sacred, holy, worth honoring with expansive and menacing shrines to their glory, and worth protecting with the blood of innocents. He doesn’t believe that God put them there, but that the borders themselves are divine e…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…toriously progressive” for, among other sins, endorsing Black Lives Matter policy proposals and implying on social media that churches might allow people to write their pronouns on their name tags. Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist, a right-wing publication with a history of promoting false information about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and climate change, showed no such restraint, proclaiming on Twitter: As a confessional Luther…

Claremont and the Agony of the Seminaries

By Daniel Schultz

…rgy (i.e., Christians, Jews and Muslims): In a terse statement Friday, the United Methodist University Senate announced that it had rescinded a public warning and restored funding to the school, which will remain affiliated with the church. The senate oversees all Methodist-affiliated seminaries. Claremont President Jerry Campbell said the change of heart came after the school managed to allay fears “that we were turning a United Methodist-related…

The “Scandal” of the Catholic Vote

By Kate Childs Graham

…express our congratulations on your historic election as President of the United States. The people of our country have entrusted you with a great responsibility. As Catholic Bishops, we offer our prayers that God give you strength and wisdom to meet the coming challenges…” – Letter to President-elect Barack Obama from Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops And some celebrated the gains the Catholic…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…ligions, in their highest ideals, hold dear. It degrades everyone involved—policy-makers, perpetrators and victims… Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation.” In many religious traditions, it is this belief in the sanctity and dignity of every human life—even the lives of our enemies—that makes it possible to say that human beings are made in the image of God. Much is at stake. In Strength to Love, Dr. Mart…

Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present

By Joyce Dalsheim and Gregory Starrett

…ch the future is always an improvement. It’s true that in the contemporary United States Jews are neither stifled by the kinds of discrimination they faced in the early twentieth century, nor are they the victims of regular police violence or the more insidious forms of structural violence to which black, native, and other marginalized Americans are subject daily. But to suggest that the shooting in Pittsburgh is an aberration is inadequate. It’s…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…two very different religious cultures, the United States and Britain. The United States remains a proudly religious nation, while Britain is significantly more modest in its observance and public expression of religion. This much is bothersome as a wide range of culture warriors, from those who insist that this is a “Christian Nation” to those who believe that religion must be absolutely separate from politics, might use Fish to insist that their…