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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clear.” Cordileone appointed new seminary staff from among the higher up…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…lling. When I listen to my children’s questions, or talk with my undergrad students, and even my seminary students, I realize that they are all trying to get out from under a story about our beginnings and our ends that has been hyper-spiritualized. Somehow the story of Christianity they learned about did not adequately capture the world they found themselves in. I wanted to offer a story of God’s interaction with the world that spoke to the beaut…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…rescinded Obama Administration guidance relating to equal access for trans students, and suggests that “these issues” should be decided on a local level, by the individuals directly involved. He offers a hypothetical where one school in a district might decide to adopt trans-inclusive policies, while another rejects those same policies. He acknowledges that “it sucks” for trans students attending the non-affirming school. “But, holy cow, as a reli…

Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

…we raise our sights to the Glory of God. The Constitution already protects students’ right to pray in public schools. What Trump actually wants is to use the machinery of the state to impose religion on students. The allusion to tearing down crosses is a nod to the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow the 40-ft tall Bladensburg cross to remain on government land and be maintained at government expense. Justice Alito’s opinion was full of irrec…

Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead

By Daniel Schultz

…d write about a drug raid at the school. Students were identified and cell phones seized. It was marijuana we heard, and LSD and even heroin, right there in the school that describes its “compelling trait” as a climate “where students are spiritually and intellectually equipped to serve Christ.” Drugs. Imagine. Parents begged for answers and so did we. At least half a dozen messages to Superintendent Barrett Mosbacker went unanswered. Others at th…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…inary had. They had composed the school’s “Geography Club”. Ostensibly for students with enthusiasm regarding geography to gather and share in their common love. In practice, it was the school’s unsanctioned group for closeted queer students. Where they were two years after graduation was remarkable. Evangelical repression was no match for sexual orientation, authentic gender identity, or the temptations of kink, it seemed. The circle batted aroun…

How Religion Shaped American Jewish Masculinity

By Sarah Imhoff

…ead it. As a teacher, I’ve often wished that there was better stuff for my students to read to help them understand how different masculinity can be in different places and times. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? My main goal was to inform, even to reorient people’s thinking about how American Judaism came to be the way it is. But the book makes a few foundational assumptions that might piss off certain corners…

From Original Sin to Flattering Mirror: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Jeanne Theoharis

…ous American” other than a president “from Columbus to today,” high school students most often chose Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Students chose two freedom fighters who in life had challenged the racial injustice at the heart of American society and who had often been treated as “un-American” for doing so. Now the civil rights movement had come to embody American grit, courage, and resolve, and these two activists could be invoked as th…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…his Galatian letter, but for reasons I detail in The Forgotten Creed, most students of Paul believe that he was drawing upon an ancient creedal statement originally associated with baptism. Paul knew it and quoted it, but he did not compose it. That honor belongs to some early Christian wordsmith now long forgotten. The credo itself has also been mostly forgotten. The current, state-of-the-art scholarly treatment of the earliest Christian statemen…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…tegory 1, involved “encouraging schools to teach the Bible and encouraging students and teachers to express religious beliefs in school—both of which can lead to proselytism or denigration of non-Christian faiths.” Still others sought to provide religious exemptions (or refusals) from the law in ways that would affect access to reproductive and LGBTQ health care. These included versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and First Ame…