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Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…er: In 1961, I journeyed from the prairies of South Dakota to do my junior year of college in southern India. During that year abroad I encountered a depth of disease and hunger that changed my life. One could not step outside my campus walls without encountering the raw realities of people perishing from lack of food and living with leprosy. When I returned to the United States, I earned my M.Div. and Ph.D. in Christian social ethics from Boston…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…brutal legacy while indoctrinating its followers to perpetuate it. “Three years ago, I was really bought into the evangelical narrative and I didn’t even see it,” he admits. That began to change when, two years ago, his church transformed its policies to fully include the LBGTQ community. The process awoke George to the many evangelical policies that “were not loving toward marginalized groups.” First he saw its impact on LGBTQ people, then on hi…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…an especially bountiful harvest that saved people from starvation, and one year could include several days of thanksgiving while other years had none at all. Days of fasting and humiliation also might be declared, for circumstances such as droughts, fires, or military defeats. Days of thanksgiving often came on Thursdays, to ensure that they did not interfere with or replace Sunday observances. America’s Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories Bruce D…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…here, despite a civil lawsuit that was filed against him in 2002. And last year, the San Antonio (TX) Express News reported that Miller “was forced to resign two years ago after a (credible) claim that he sexually abused (a St. Louis teenager), but was sent to his superiors to live and work for the church in Rome. SNAP, and now Dawkins, et al are frequently criticized as “too angry” or “too radical.” Their insistence that the Catholic Church and i…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…nal thought: where would you like the Charter for Compassion to be in five years? What are your wildest hopes for its success? I’d like to see it adopted in social programs and in educational curricula. There are moves to get it included in educational curricula already, and so that’s progress. I’d like compassion to be something that is bobbing up in conversation more than it does at the moment. Just as in nowadays we are attuned to gender issues…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…Alabama is not one of them,” Moore told the news site AL.com earlier this year. “A federal judge,” said Moore, “has no authority to overturn a state constitutional amendment in the face of a state court’s opinion on the same matter.” In February, when Moore’s Wallace-esque stance made news, he was supported by the Alabama Republican Party chair, Terry Lathan, who had just returned from a trip to Israel, which, he wrote in a blog post bearing the…

Academic Freedom Bills

By Lauri Lebo

…inter’s crocuses, the Academic Freedom bills are beginning to sprout. Each year, various conservative state lawmakers across the country flock back from vacation to their new legislative session clutching slightly tweaked versions of these bills. The title “Academic Freedom” sounds noble enough (how could a freedom-loving American oppose such a thing?) but the bills’ basic gist is this: “Evolution is a lie! Evolution is evil! If your children lear…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…reat again. This is the vision he calls for: the QAnon Reich, the thousand year millennial kingdom—the Klan’s Kingdom. “Dismantle the deep state.” “Demolish woke tyranny.” “Restore the American republic,” in a way that hearkens back to a “glorious past” that is very much the era of the Second Klan. How can you tell? It’s law and order rhetoric tacked onto The Ending—“make America safe again,” the Southern Strategy as apocalyptic promise. CPAC is n…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…out Y2K (remember that?) and New Age predictions about December 21 of this year are not different in kind from Harold Camping’s ridiculous (and widely ridiculed) “calculation” that the apocalypse would take place on May 21 (and then October 21) of last year. Nor, claims Landes, are utopian claims of a transformed economic or political order, such as Shimon Peres’ now nostalgic vision of a “new Middle East” or a jihadist’s vision of a purified umm…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

…et inconvenient data stand in the way of wishful thinking. And that’s why, year after year, we get stories like this: Hip New Churches Sway to a Different Drummer (2004) Evangelicals Open Debate on Widening Policy Questions (2005) Are Young Evangelicals Skewing More Liberal? (2008) It’s Not Your Father’s Christian Right (2008) Young Evangelicals Seek Broader Political Agenda (2008) The Evangelical Divide (2017) ‘God is Going to Have to Forgive Me’…