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As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…, would be solved by addressing vexing issues of economic justice, climate change, and social inequality. And, by recognizing the rights of women and married men to ordination, the looming shortage of priests would be averted. Yet these kinds of substantive changes would require the Pope and the Curia to cede their power and undo more than ten centuries of authoritarian rule. For those who say the outcome would look a lot like Protestantism, Butle…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…say the church has decisively embraced it. We are certainly witnessing a change in LDS teaching about homosexuality. However, this does not mean that the church is moving down a path that will eventually culminate in equality for gay and lesbian people—as if the church’s opposition is eroding away and will finally collapse in a matter of time. On the contrary, the “inborn/celibacy” position appeals among the leadership precisely because it stre…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…are untrue outside of the religious realm, as with the claim that climate change is a hoax, for example. Just in the last 15 years, it has become Republican orthodoxy to disbelieve in evolution and to challenge evolution instruction in the public schools. This is a uniquely American phenomenon, and it is a product of a religious tradition that, starting about a half a century ago, decided to make that stand in favor of creationism. So religion is…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…r efforts against these changes through their ACC chapter. The recent name change allows members to distance themselves from the AAC and claim status as active Episcopalians who can make disciplinary complaints against clergy, including the Presiding Bishop. The name game may have been a cunning tactic in fanning the embers of a controversy in which public interest has waned considerably as support for LGBT equality, including marriage equality, h…

God at the Gay Pride Parade

By Peter Montgomery

…urprised and delighted to find that such a group existed. More evidence of change: on the eve of Pride Month, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first openly gay bishop, The Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin, a professor of religion and history who will lead the Southwest California Synod. From GLAAD: Because he is openly gay and partnered, Dr. Erwin did not seek ordination in the ELCA when he was completing seminary. Instead, he completed…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…names and photos of those for whom they seek prayers. When asked about the change, Scheidler says, “We searched for the three best photographs we could find because we wanted pictures where people would see the humanity of these people.” Throughout our conversation, he returned to the Christian tenets of compassionate understanding and the belovedness of all people before God, indicating a sincerity that often goes unnoticed in a movement frequent…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

A sure sign that change is afoot in Cuba is the opening of the first Roman Catholic seminary since the 1959 revolution. President Raul Castro was in attendance, as was Archbishop Thomas Wenski and several other priests from Miami. In the wake of the Church’s continued involvement in the release of over fifty political prisoners on the island, last week’s inauguration is a material symbol of the easing tensions between the Cuban government and the…

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

By Beatrice Marovich

…loser view, the social havoc that is being driven by a major environmental change; a lens through which we see an alteration in the local environment driving changes in the local economy, driving social crises, and driving something along the order of spiritual crisis as well. To be fair, this church-as-lens perspective seems mostly to have emerged as a matter of convenience. Jay Reinke had opened up his church to itinerants moving through the tow…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…an’t come to even overlapping consensus because our society is changing, a change reflected in our politics. Once Americans as a society have come to terms with the changes they are experiencing, the faith talk will regain its potency. It will serve to bridge divides. That will always be a contested process, so it’s not necessarily good news, depending on who gains the upper hand. But it will happen, sooner or later. In the meantime, we live throu…

Citizens United’s Bad Religion

By Sarah Posner

…film for free on Hulu. Citizens United’s newest project, “The Hope and the Change,” which runs a little over an hour, is a standard rehash of anti-Obama-isms: he promised to unite the country, but stood with Skip Gates and Trayvon Martin. He promised to fix the economy, but he goes on vacation while your house is being foreclosed upon. He’s brought us socialism (health care reform), infringement of religious liberty (ditto), and, the film falsely…