Religion Dispatches
…people who think evolution is this either/or proposition. But there are many, many people, scientists included, who quite comfortably accept evolution, and also believe in God. John Haught, a Georgetown University theology professor, said it so beautifully when he testified during the trial that he thought it was a mistake to assume that one can not believe in evolution and religion, that to argue otherwise presumes to know the mind of God. He ma…
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…al Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Palgrave, 2015), Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), Antiracism: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2019), Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019) which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Libra…
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…ing Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Rudy Guiliani, a thrice-married, pro-choice New York governor, while passing over fellow-evangelical candidate Mike Huckabee. No one need ask for a more bald demonstration of prioritizing power over principle from the self-proclaimed leaders of “values voters.” Skeptics of the decline of the religious right, on the other hand, cite the huge infrastructure, resources, and reach the religious right has built over the l…
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…ht factions of the West for more than 15 years. These include the up-and-coming New Apostolic Reformation, extreme elements of the anti-abortion movement, and religiously-animated parts of the Patriot movement. He’s a former officer in the Army and the National Guard, who served in Bosnia and Iraq and has a remarkable post-military resume that established his credentials as a leader in both the Christian Right and the Patriot movement. He was a co…
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…better way to think about these doctrines. He does that by defining seven new deadly sins and seven new graces, all seen through the lens of the life and teachings of a queer Christ. Cheng took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book, and his ancient model. LGBT Christians love to talk about grace, but the topic of sin can be painful for us. Why do we need to talk about sin now? In some ways I fe…
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…uslims. The mayor seeks to boost the town’s sagging population by settling new families, but only white Hungarian and western European Christians. “We are a white, European and Christian population, and we want to stay like this.” Hungary will host the next global World Congress of Families summit in May. Colombia: Transgender biologist who teaches at Jesuit university becomes arole model Human Rights Watch profiles Brigitte Baptists, a biologist…
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…weaponized that sentiment in 2011 with his terror attack, and Roof cited similar sentiments after slaughtering congregants of an African American Church in 2015. We are distracted by incidents of mass murder and terror, and assume white Christian nationalism is a series of one-offs, rather than an increasingly pandemic problem across white majority nations in demographic transition. It’s growing in our own backyards, too, and not just because of T…
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…certainty that the spiritual warfare model offers. Progressive Christians might try to dismiss Peretti’s literal understanding of angels and demons as a fringe element, and I wish they were right. But their fellow Christians in the United States have spoken, not only in sermons and books, but in votes, political donations, and culture war movements. The majority of voters who identify as Christian supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, and will…
Read More…s a bad mistake because I’ve got a degree in physics. I used the thermodynamic laws of physics. I put in my body weight and my humidity and so on. I assumed the furnace to be at 5000 degrees and I will last for just on 2.1 seconds. One of the messages I’d had was that this bill was the cause of our drought. This bill was the cause of our drought. Well if any of you follow my Twitter account, In the Pakuranga electorate this morning, it was pouring…
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…igious sentiment lined up on this question on account of my own efforts in New York to call out then-mayor Rudy Giuliani’s especially cruel version of “welfare reform” during the Clinton years, once Clinton had muscled through his Reagan-inflected “personal responsibility” bill in 1996. I was roundly denounced by ostensibly progressive clergy colleagues—and by several ostensibly liberal newspaper columnists—for getting my morals wrong; these disti…
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