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Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…olution,” he offers three ways that this work can help: First, “interfaith helps harmonize people’s identities.” Patel goes on: “In America, just about everyone is some sort of hyphenated hybrid of race, religion and ethnicity/nationality… Religious extremists try to separate people’s various identities and pit them against each other.” Patel suggests that the Tsarnaev brothers might have been less vulnerable to extremism if they “had been involv…

Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination

By Aaron Ricker

…gling to get by and/or struggling to define satisfying identities with the help of scriptural traditions, the paranoid insider-defining strategies of Revelation are custom-made for developing new choose-your-own-adventure conspiracy theories. Covid-19 applications are a plug and play game—practically effortless and potentially endless. The “apocalyptic” attraction of Covid-19 conspiracy theories is neither unique nor hard to understand. The lesson…

Double Helix: Science & Religion as Cultural Kindling; A Response to The New Republic

By Arri Eisen

…believe in angels, and most of us in miracles, etc.); so, clearly, we need help, and the implication is that science will provide this help if only we were more rational, for God’s sake. Then, there’s the God-of-the-gaps argument and why it’s so weak. God-of-the-gaps goes like this: science can explain everything except blank (depending on the historical moment, fill in the blank with: how the earth moves around the sun, why we look like our paren…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

…divorce rate than the Northeast, researchers say. Some rabbis are getting help from comedy writers for their High Holy Day sermons. Glenn Beck (remember him?) held his rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday. More than 1,000 folks (mostly Christians) showed up. For personal use when the comments section makes you want to swear: litany for the conversion of internet thugs. First it was protesters, then it was rain that complicated the pope’s appearance at…

“Religious Liberty” Catholics Reap What They Sow in Trump

By Patricia Miller

…n is presenting a horrible choice. May God help us. Well, as they say, God helps those who help themselves and for years George and his ilk have been presenting a vision of a country undergoing a moral armageddon and overrun by an out-of-control federal government, a crisis so severe that George and fellow conservatives threatened civil disobedience rather than comply with unjust laws. They declared in the 2009 Manhattan Declaration that they woul…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…y, there were pitiably few people that the mainstream media called upon to help parse Wright’s brand of black liberation theology. Instead the conversation circled around political commentators rather than theologians. Personally, I felt the ball was grievously fumbled and the history will write off Jeremiah Wright as a cult leader and those who espouse liberation theology as a non-orthodox heresy and more importantly, as a personal figure who sou…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…ipated in World Congress of Families summits. Also listed as signers are a number of religious leaders, including Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America; Catholic Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Ojo, Nigeria; Lawrence Khongy, pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church in Singapore; and Josiah Trenham, an Orthodox priest who has spoken repeatedly at World Congress of Families gatherings. Vatican: Commentary on gay priest ban; tim…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…bortions are done at that hospital and they try their hardest to make that number zero.” Most doctors aren’t eager to have their medical practices subjected to criminal investigation. However, a few do wholeheartedly support the end of Roe. One of the most disturbing anecdotes in our report involved a pregnant woman who came to a hospital in Ohio with suicidal thoughts. An obstetrician involved in her care told us that an anti-abortion psychiatris…

Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy

By Karen E. Park

…to lead in society, church and the family, and women are there to support, help, and nurture. The notion of complementarianism, which has been popular in both Protestant and Catholic circles for the last three decades or so, claims that men and women were made by a God who desired not egalitarianism between the sexes, but an ordered hierarchy with men and women occupying distinct roles in the family and society. Prominent Baptist author and pastor…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…ify her husband. So it’s not surprising that Merkle would write a book and help create a corresponding documentary that seems to be more of an opinion piece on Christian womanhood or a video you’d watch in a women’s Bible study than a film documenting an anti-feminist movement. In fact, the language on the film’s website clearly points to a didactic motive rather than an observation of society: “This documentary follows author Rebekah Merkle as sh…