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“My Prayer Flies Like a Word on a Wing”: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 5

By Mark Dery

…great salvation/ of bullshit faith,” then makes an about-face, paying lip service to the Buddhism of his hippie days: “If I don’t explain what you ought to know/ You can tell me all about it/ On the next Bardo.” Finally, just to keep his bases covered, he makes an offering at the empty altar of existentialism: “Don’t believe in yourself/ Don’t deceive with belief/ Knowledge comes with death’s release…” “Questioning my spiritual life has always be…

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

By Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy

…ndu American Foundation Executive Director Suhag Shukla told Religion News Service that the protections would “[single] out, [target], and inadvertently [discriminate] against Hindu students and faculty … as presumed perpetrators.” In 2021, when a similar resolution was being considered by the Santa Clara County Human Rights Commission, Shukla warned in her testimony that the proposal would “uniquely target South Asians, Indians, and Hindus for et…

Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…cal operations. Though it is not clear what Page did in this branch of the service, in general psyops attempts to influence an enemy or a foreign audience through propaganda or other means of influencing attitudes. Though he never saw conflict, he was clearly in some sort of personal skirmish, since he was discharged from the army in 1998 for “patterns of misconduct.” He then relocated to Chicago and then to Milwaukee where he joined the skinhead…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…Jail” to support Beck’s message to honor special men and women in military service. For the resounding end to her remarks, King seemed briefly to speak in tongues, and then a small chorus began to sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the “black national anthem.” I can guarantee you, that is not a hymn the predominately white crowd at the Mall on Saturday could sing along with. James Weldon Johnson is rolling around in his grave, for real. Think of it…

Karma Chameleon: From Zen Practitioner to Episcopal Bishop

By Nick Street

…actly, does Rev. Forrester meditate on? In an interview with Religion News Service, he said that in his daily meditation, he doesn’t think about Buddhism or Zen philosophy. In fact, he tries not to think about anything at all. That’s consistent with the “Rules for Zazen” established by Dogen Zenji, the 13th-century Japanese master who founded the Soto School of Zen Buddhism—the practice lineage at the Lake Superior Zendo, where Forrester is a memb…

The Christian Worldview Revealed by Sessions’ Use of Romans 13

By Susan B. Ridgely

…family’s role as educators and caregivers, and the church’s role as social service agency. To this concern about scope, Focus added a moral and, for many of its viewers, a biblical component to the proper role of government as Tackitt’s quote articulates. This articulation reaches back to the conservative Christian view of the seminal relationship that God had with his own son and wants with us now. This view of government did not spring into exis…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…nging from I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry to The Kingsman: The Secret Service (where they are victims of hyperviolence), in plenty of political cartoons, and in some pretty smart parodies. Very often, these images depict church members as uneducated, fat, slovenly, rural “backwoods” types with Southern accents. Yet, most members of the church have at least a college degree, and many have advanced degrees. Many people in the church are athlete…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them. Even as President Ronald Reagan challenged Michael Gorbachev to tear down the wall between East and West, the much-loved Pope John Paul II put every effort into freeing the Catholics of Eastern Europe from religious and political oppression. The new supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis I, has the opportunity to end another form of oppression…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…eanwhile, the music is straight out of the manipulative megachurch worship service’s tug-on-the-heartstrings playbook—as someone who grew up partly in “seeker-sensitive” evangelicalism, I ought to know. The ads also feature mostly people of color, but interestingly enough, in the photo of the Signatry’s board of directors featured on its website, I count eleven white men, three men of color, and one white woman. Don’t think that disconnect will go…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…charge for gay and lesbian ordination. He even preached at the ordination service of Scott Anderson, “the first gay minister” ordained by the PCUSA. In this interview, Achtemeier talks about how his encounters with LGBT people changed his heart and mind over the years. His new book is: The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart. Candace Chellew-Hodge : You don’t spend a lot of time in the book dwelling on the so-called…