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RDPulpit: Politics and the Sin of Caring Too Much

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…much, we are overwhelmed and stop caring at all. The devil has sealed the deal. How do we find our way back and repent of the sin of caring too much? We cannot vote our way back. We cannot pass a government bailout to get us back. We cannot create yet another religion of creeds and doctrines to get us back. Instead, we must turn back to the mystery of the God who created us and seek our security there. It’s uncharted territory, but it begins with…

Even Conservative Pollsters Find Growing Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…are in strong support—85 percent and 74 percent respectively. Given these numbers, what are anti-gay Christians to do? Apparently, they must yell louder about how “sinful” homosexuality really is. “If it is to find relevance with millennials, the church must be willing to deal directly with the issue of same-sex attraction and relationships,” said Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay Christian Resources. “The church must voice a clear, biblical ethi…

Conviction of FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Overturned

By Joanna Brooks

…Arizona community of Short Creek, as well as with the movement of a select number of FLDS members to the faith’s remote compound in Eldorado, Texas. Jeffs will stand a new trial in Utah scheduled to begin on August 23, and he faces extradition to Texas. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is also being pressured to review state rape statutes to better deal with the situation of arranged underage marriages in polygamous communities. Two days after…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…gger and stronger than in America. So the conservatives are relying on the numbers of African leaders; they start fighting mainline church leadership using Africans to win the American battle, and come across as though they care about Africa. Do these renewal church conservatives in America actually care about Africa? They have some explaining to do: here conservatives came to fame because one of the governments, in a broadcast program, accused ma…

Getting Porn Users Plugged Into Church

By Daniel Schultz

…ith a pornography addiction a non-threatening and anonymous environment to deal with the challenge. Okay, so they’re trying to connect people looking for sexytime with more fulfilling pursuits and relationships. That’s the theory, anyway. But “plugging in” porn users? Really? For that matter, since when is there a problem getting porn users to go to church? Admitted smut-hounds, now that’s a different story. But I have no doubt that more than one…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…had a Quaker ask me the other day, “Well, what about us Quakers? We don’t deal with objects and the senses.” And I was like, “Of course you do: you meet in a building, the entire place is constructed for you to have a specific experience, the way you sit, the way you face each other, the way you talk about going inside to ‘greet the light.’” I mean it’s all a fully sensual thing. Just because you’re not looking at a picture of Jesus doesn’t mean…

War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism

By Noah Berlatsky

…celebrates his career because he was Jewish and because he wielded a great deal of power. They do concede that his diplomatic tenure was “not without controversy,” of course, using the word author Steve Silberman wryly jokes “is going to do so much heavy lifting in the coming days it’s gonna need a jockstrap.” On closer investigation, the ADL’s Kissinger partisanship isn’t just morally bankrupt, it’s actively nonsensical. According to its website…

Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…ly mentioned, it amounts to little more than dusty paper. It takes a great deal of time and space for communities to come to these decisions on their own, and to hear “wait” when women’s health and human rights are at stake can be enraging. And yet, cultural shifts take time, sometimes generations. Without careful investment and consideration, efforts to end social practices might come to nothing or even spur a backlash. Lasting change and the end…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…y like America with such high divorce rates on the one hand and increasing numbers of people in interfaith and same-gender marriages on the other, very few of the families around us look a Christmas crèche. Strawberries on a theological cake Francis devotes an entire chapter to “The Blessings and Challenges of Womanhood.” His statement that “the role of women in the Church is more than maternal, more than being the mother of a family,” gets us off…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…500 pages, Landes’ book is only half a volume, for it consciously does not deal with the best-known forms of millennialism: Christian and Jewish ones. This is like writing about soft drinks without mentioning Coca Cola. Yet the dozen cases Landes studies in depth, ranging from the 1856 Xhosa Cattle-Slaying to Marxism and Global Jihad, offer a series of mirrors through which to see more familiar religious and secular movements alike. It’s easy to s…