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Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…t that’s another story). After all, the Democrats are the ones who reject hard-hearted conservative theocracy and embrace—Glenn Beck be damned—social justice religion, right? That a prominent liberal Washington insider and social justice-minded Catholic like Dionne has already essentially conceded that there’s little doubt the president will cave to political expediency rather than defend the Democratic-religious alliance demonstrates just how fra…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…t employers opposed to the contraceptive mandate really believe that a dollar is a dollar, right up to the point when some woman somewhere might be having and enjoying sex in ways they don’t approve of… at which point suddenly there are all these religious convictions. (Of course it doesn’t help that Hobby Lobby has been happy enough to invest in contraceptive manufacturers.) So help me out. What’s the moral difference between one piece of paper t…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…pirituality, in projects aiming to remake the world and the self. The popular characterization of the spiritual-but-not-religious person is of someone a bit flighty and unserious. The spirituality is a pastiche of confused and conflicting ideas. The seeker is typically thought of as embracing a mishmash of conflicting ideas—Catholicism and reincarnation, Buddhism and crystals, kitschy angels and dreamcatchers—which, if taken seriously as ideas, wo…

Pope Francis Has Painted Himself into a Corner on Women Deacons

By Mary E. Hunt

…ious arguments and has recently published translations of some of the scholarly articles that ground this work. According to Dr. Zagano: “While ITC member Cipriano Vagaggini published research on the diaconate in an Italian journal in 1974, the ITC didn’t produce its own work on that subject until about 1997. Along with Vagaggini, that ITC document affirmed what Bishop Imesh had denied years earlier: history supports the argument that women could…

The Religious Right and the Tea Party on “Education Choice”

By Julie Ingersoll

…government usurpation of a family responsibility. Indeed citing the Times article, Gary North recently wrote about a tea party-sponsored school voucher plan as an issue that might even split the tea party: “The idea is being challenged by libertarian Tea Party members… That the movement could divide over school vouchers indicates that there is a recurring disagreement within the Right over what the civil government should fund and why, as well as…

PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…eplete with rings and gowns. Indeed, these marriages were functionally on par with marriages between two humans. And things could get messy when human-divine marriage and human-human marriage overlapped, as I show in my essay in Queer Christianities (NYU, 2014). This means that, for hundreds of years, medieval Christian women could and did marry “traditionally” in a way that Presbyterian women today cannot. Among the reasons Presbyterian women do…

Exclusive: Religious Leaders for Immigration Equality for Gay and Lesbian Couples

By Sarah Posner

…cumented partners of U.S. citizens who are gay or lesbian, is compiling a large number of religious leaders, organizations, and denominations, to sign on to a letter supporting the legislation. As I reported last year, UAFA would correct a glaring inequality in our current immigration law: there are 36,000 bi-national couples in the United States—same-sex couples in which one is a US citizen and the other faces possible deportation if a partner o…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…and suicide. I grew up in a generally moderate congregation and I have no particular memory of ever being told that homosexuality was wrong, either by my parents or my church. I didn’t even receive that kind of clear and direct anti-LGBT messaging at the conservative Southern Baptist camp I attended throughout my childhood. And still, I spent a decade and a half of my life struggling with depression and hopelessness about my sexuality—terrified of…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ntial calls for greater tax equity must contend with the dystopian “class warfare” fears of Tea Partiers and other Republicans? When the number of Americans living in poverty—46.2 million, according to a recent report from the Census Bureau—is at an all-time high? When more than 300,000 Christian churches dot the American landscape, the majority with declining membership and largely unused real estate or financial capital that might well be put to…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…ver. Franklin Graham—son of Billy and president of the large evangelical charity Samaritan’s Purse—has never been as grifty a customer as Sekulow. But he’s been no less a culture warrior for conservative evangelicals, and no less a stout defender of Pres. Trump. This does not sit well with everyone: The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is looking for venues in London and Liverpool for Franklin Graham’s upcoming UK tour. Management of ACC Live…