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RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bear one another’s burdens and put aside our differences in order to be of service to one another. They would have reached out to Mr. Adkisson without asking him if he was Democrat or a Republican or a liberal or a conservative. Labels don’t matter when someone is in need—or they shouldn’t. But, Mr. Adkisson did not know that about the Unitarian church. You didn’t tell him liberals could help him. You only told him they’re to blame for his misfort…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…learned [to] continue to create authentic ways to communicate care in the service of advancing justice.” Mentor Patrick S. Cheng provides a fitting summary of the connection we experienced: “As a gay Asian American theologian, I frequently live at the toxic intersections of homophobia, racism, and extreme secularism. However, for me the HRC Summer Institute was a life-giving experience of faith, hope, and love. We have done a new thing, and I loo…

Why Won’t Conservatives Call Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime?

By Eric Reitan

…epeal sodomy laws and to gain rights to such things as uncloseted military service and civil marriage? How does any of that qualify as an effort to destroy the family? In a May 23, 2004 televised simulcast to hundreds of churches, entitled “The Battle for Marriage,” Dobson offers his answer: “Traditional marriage between one man and one woman cannot co-exist with homosexual marriage. It will destroy the family.” In other words, if this minority gr…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…of their character.” Isn’t that what every religion seeks—a time when the service and character of each individual is recognized and appreciated without bias or hypocrisy? As flawed as our political system is in so many ways, we took one more step toward that today. Mary E. Hunt: Double Duty A Washington, DC, police officer inspired me anew for the election. She told me that when she votes she always asks for two “I have voted” stickers as she…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…conflict and politics in a Muslim majority nation.” The abstract: While a number of investigations have examined how gay Muslim men view homosexuality in relation to religious Western homophobia, this research constitutes the first account of the experiences of self-identified gay men living in an African, Muslim nation, where same-sex sex is both illegal and actively persecuted. We interviewed 28 gay men living in Tunisia in order to understand…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…were repelled by his “alien” faith. In a recent article for Religion News Service, the popular Mormon blogger Jana Reiss suggested a few more reasons why Trump has a Mormon problem, including his demeaning treatment of women and his inauthentic claim to faith. The Mormon rejection of Trump also serves to further magnify Trump’s strange success among evangelical voters. While the evangelical magazine Christianity Today recently pointed out that th…

Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

By Sarah Posner

…of abortion.” Gingrich was referring to the Department of Health and Human Services rule that requires employers who provide health insurance to their employees to cover contraceptives without a co-pay. Churches and houses of worship are exempt from the rule, but the Bishops had sought a wider exemption for other religious institutions such as hospitals and universities (even though many such Catholic institutions’ health plans already cover contr…

Eulogy, Corrected: Father Matthew Came Out as Gay 30 Years Earlier

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ince, although he was a mature monk and priest, he had many years to go in service to his vocation (37, to be precise). What I most appreciate in this correction is that Mike is right that this chronology makes Father Matthew’s story even more moving, and far more brave. What I most admire about Mike Bever is this. He has accomplished what is to my eye the most selfless, which is to say the most un-egoed, celebration of the life that Matthew Kelty…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…ce in society. Why this is, I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s a disservice to readers, to truth, and to the democracy which relies on it. While that point is valid regardless of who makes it, remember: I’m an ordained minister. If I can get comfortable with the idea that religion shouldn’t be given a free pass, reporters can surely get there. Which brings us, unfortunately, back to Kathryn Post’s piece. I’m afraid it doesn’t pass many of t…

Why Nobody Should Be Surprised That Pope Francis Made Problematic Comments About Judaism — And That He Remains Unapologetic

By Ilan Benattar

…the rising forces of reactionary nationalism in the late 2010s, Francis’s service as the Bishop of Rome has seen a marked shift away from the fiercely anti-communist rhetoric of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II. Perhaps, then, this is why it came as a surprise to many, including the Israeli Rabbinate, that in an August 11th homily Pope Francis would express full-throated endorsement of a belief which, in contemporary parlance, could be glo…