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No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful

By Chrissy Stroop

…” rather than, well, intolerant. To be sure, there are people I admire who signed the Harper’s letter, and I believe they are moved by misguided notions about the “marketplace of ideas” resulting in the victory of the best ones. In the age of social media, however, we must recognize the naivete of such a view. Left unchecked, intolerance will destroy democracy. And intolerance is certainly celebrated not only by the right-wing signers of the Harpe…

Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Editor’s Note: Welcome new readers! If you like this post sign up for RD’s daily email newsletter here. —- It was an impressive display—more than two hundred people standing in front of the State House on a blustery November afternoon, demonstrating in favor of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people. What made it most impressive is that the rally was in Columbia, South Carolina, a place not known as a bastion of gay rights activity. As a ve…

Did Pope Francis Win, Lose or Draw at the Family Synod?

By Patricia Miller

…sensus of the synod. Progressive Catholics, however, see it as a win and a sign of progress that there was even open discussion about these issues allowed at the synod. Most encouraging, says Andrew Sullivan, is the new level of transparency under Pope Francis and his decision to include the failed paragraphs and their vote tallies in the final document: And there you see why it is not wishful thinking to believe that something profound has indeed…

Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ication from Apple’s iTunes store earlier this year drew more than 150,000 signatures. Apple dropped the Exodus app, saying it offended large groups of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! Here’s a thought: Perhaps the lions wouldn’t be so testy if they didn’t have to justify their very existence. Perhaps the lions would be more willing to lie down with the lamb (or the “Daniel”) if the lions weren’t being…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ht find that your data is free to share with anybody. And of course you’ve signed yourself in, you’ve signed in your children, you’ve shared your vulnerabilities. Charles mentioned mental health, but it’s not just mental health, it’s vulnerabilities in general. After all, as a European, it’s interesting to watch how churches in the States, they fill every need. You have preschool, you have a couple’s night, you have childcare, you have all this st…

Is New Pope’s Take on the Poor All That New?

By Silvia Alves Fernandes and Manuel A. Vásquez

…ism, since the goal is to come up with the most robust examination of the “signs of the times.” This analysis is a necessary, feet-on-the-ground precondition for deep reflection in the light of Christian resources in a see-judge-act spiral that led to faith-informed actions to address injustices, even if through small grassroots practices. By contrast, Francis seems to think of poverty primarily as a virtue, as a marker of service, frugality, hone…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…ent from an anonymous person with the name Amina Wadud to my professional specification, but I will take that as a good sign for now….

Pagan Martyrs, Murderous Monks: Agora Hits US Shores

By Nathan Schneider

…e of what brought so many in the vast Alexandrian underclasses to wear the sign of the cross: bread, freedom, and the good news of the Beatitudes. Hypatia’s slave Davus is, to her, only a slave, albeit a clever one; among Christians, he learns that feeding the hungry is better than fattening the full. Hypatia’s society collapsed around her, it must be admitted, because its time had come. Alexandria had built its wonders on slavery (Sagan called it…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…but all of these responses, from people with substantial platforms, are designed to reaffirm the call to violence. The accusations of “grooming” and “pedophilia” and calls to “protect the children” all reaffirm the most violent anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric in the United States, which frames the LGBTQIA+ community as predators who must be met with violence. Nothing about it is subtle, and the rhetoric barely skirts the edge of where “free speech” meets…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…grich-Clinton welfare “reform” of 1996 came as but the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual grace that had disappeared systemic poverty from the national consciousness, or had at least converted it from being the product of injustice and oppression to being instead the collective expression of a whole lot of bad individual choices made by the poor themselves. We were back, in other words, to a moralizing Victorian sensibility. In m…