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Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…and far more intimate than any of the other documentaries I’ve watched or news stories I’ve read. The film has also left me far more haunted by questions about what’s really happening for people who are living in the wake of this social and environmental transformation—and what will happen in the coming years. Without spoiling the very end, for those of you who do intend to see it, I will just say it seems that Reinke himself is ultimately visite…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…obally, stripped people of a practice vital to their health and community. Today, some researchers report that group drumming reduces anxiety and depression, increases social resilience and boosts the immune system, along with other physical and mental health benefits. “So this thing that was inherently happening in all tribal lineages was healing the very things that were hurting people,” says Pasquale Mateus, adding that they didn’t need science…

GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ent to political violence. They’ve seen what it leads to. They’ve read the news stories about the lives lost at the hands of QAnon believers; they’ve seen and heard from the police officers beaten and battered on January 6th by a mob, sent by Trump, who believed the election had been stolen; and they’ve now seen one of their own, Solomon Pena, orchestrate shootings at Democrats’ homes—even being present at at least one of the shootings—urging the…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…to male supremacist Doug Phillips and his homeschool organization Vision Forum in the 2000s, before Phillips was accused of sexual predation by his young Latina nanny and Vision Forum folded in the 2010s. Family is so important to Baucham because of his own childhood. In his 2009 book What He Must Be If He Wants To Marry My Daughter, he explains that, “All I ever knew was fatherlessness.” He says his father left him and his teenage mother to pursu…

Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…darn it, that kid’s going to do something about it. How can any American reading such stories not feel a little proud rush of patriotism, right? A slight welling up in the chest? I don’t mean to sound condescending here, but how can anyone not find such brave principled kids absolutely adorable? Ummm, actually there is one group that seems to hate stories about little kids standing up to bigotry. And that would be the American Family Association…

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

By Alana Massey

…ed 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 entities. It is the idolatrous faith of a brutal and morally vacuous coward, but…

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…on, not revenge. And then there is that incredible singing voice of Hamer’s: you listen to that voice, and you understand what it is to prophesy. My pastoral advice for today: read Raboteau with your own deepest contemplative consciousness. Then ask yourself, How must I now live?…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…s.” Unfortunately, I took this literally and proceeded with only my prayer rug to this spot. Imagine my surprise when people loaded off buses with sleeping bags (the MOST prudent thing to have), king-size pillows, and other makeshift ways to spend the night in minimal discomfort. Actually when the option of was given to take a late night bus back to Mina for women and the disabled, I definitely decided I would take it. I mean, the previous night a…

Triple Fundamentalism: The New American Conservatism

By Julie Ingersoll

…ervatism from the era of conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, to today’s populist anti-intellectuals (my term). He writes: In all three cases, the pattern is the same. There is the eternal Truth that never varies—the will of God, the principles of the Founding Fathers, the so-called laws of the free market. There are the scriptures which explain the eternal truths—the King James Bible, in the case of religious fundamentalism, the Constit…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…and accountability of those in leadership. Tracy clued me in to the term “breadcrumbing” as a way to see the dynamics at play in a patriarchal church largely resistant to change. Breadcrumbing means giving just enough affirmation to keep people involved while suggesting more interest than is really there. It’s used mostly in personal situations but it feels like what’s going on with the Synod. The term refers specifically to hookups, or what we ca…