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5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…he concerns of the conference’s mostly exvangelical critics seriously. The way the Wheaton summit was covered likely blindsided the conference organizers, who have been accustomed to controlling their media representation. Since then, exvangelical Twitter has continued to explore what was wrong with it, with Michelle Panchuk producing an important thread on why the “best practices” document released by the summit organizers doesn’t represent a ser…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…part of me, and I am comfortable using the insider language and in certain ways find it comforting to be around people who understand me in that way. It seems like evangelical Christians are where I can most be of use in my writing and activism, so I take that pragmatic approach. However, in my day-to-day life I often feel very estranged from the normal trappings of Christianity—the emphasis on raising children in the best (safest) way possible, f…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hopes the countless LGBTQ people who write to her each month feel the same way. She points to the church’s Wesleyan spirituality and the particular way United Methodists “do theology” as among the key reasons she is called to ministry in this particular denomination. She posed a question for other LGBTQ people who may be questioning their place in UMC congregations or any faith community: I think each of us has to say, where is God calling us to b…

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…ling Mercies by Anne Lamott. I like how she portrays her faith in ordinary ways that bring grace, depth and humor to the spiritual journey. I don’t think I’m as funny as she is, sometimes I wish I had that kind of humor. But it’s a powerful and accessible way of talking about meeting the holy. I teach it in my course entitled “Theology for Social Justice” at Claremont School of Theology. What’s your next book? I have been thinking of following up…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…pression Landon made during that first meeting. “He had been looking for a way to announce it to the world.” According to Wolff, “The Craftsman” became that way. Singerman was a Jew dropped into the mythology of the American West, much as Landon himself had been as a star of Bonanza. Notes Wolff, who went on to write regularly for Little House, “I see that episode as really standing on its own, apart from the rest of the series.” Moving from pitch…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d a final thought: “I have seen some Christian theologians try to explain away these passages but I find their explanations lacking and they do not fit with a literal view of the Scriptures.” Not only does he remain tone deaf to the reasons why his own views may also “not fit with a literal view of the Scriptures,” he also appears heedless of the ways his site and beliefs may, in fact, perpetuate bigotry, misogyny, dehumanization and yes, lust, ev…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…rican exceptionalism, and that this same resurgent whitemanism—which has always had strong elements of Freud’s death drive (Todestrieb) baked into it—will keep us from averting the worst possible environmental apocalypse. Another way to put this: The times, they aren’t a-changin’. And time itself is very short. UPDATE: Is a Fixation on Race Betraying the Class Struggle? Take this as an addendum to my above post. And yes, this belongs on RD. Fo…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…t people don’t connect faith to the seemingly commercial details of, say, iPhones, or robots that care for the elderly, or the dynamics of personal relationships conducted over Skype, even though these changes have a bearing on the way we relate to other human beings. As an alternative to this silence, Staley’s work touches on two possible modes of religious response to technology, which I’ll call—because sci-fi topics deserve sci-fi names—the Str…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…larity of their positions. Barack Obama and Joseph Biden went out of their way to explain exactly how the Republicans had worsened Israel’s security, not enhanced it. Sounding at times like he’d taken his cues directly from Israel’s center-left daily Haaretz, Obama pointedly told a Jewish audience in Ohio that the Republicans did not espouse Jewish interests, but held a distinctly Likud party point of view. Americans seem to have assimilated Israe…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ultural group it’s often assumed that you see your identity in a political way. I wasn’t overtly saying this, but the character gets forced into some sort of political role anyway. I was more interested in seeing him trapped in a situation through his own mistake. He’s just trying to get laid, and the whole thing snowballs on him. A lot of people are offended by that title. It’s like when you mention Israel⎯people get nervous just when you mention…