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“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…for them. If the numerous think-pieces and essays on Coloring Book—specifically around its samples from Christian contemporary music and black gospel—were any indication, you might think that Chance’s popularity is in part because of his public embrace of his faith, not despite it. He casts down his nets into the depths of what could be termed millennial hip hop spirituality, a social and sonic admixture of post-adolescent silliness (“I give Sata…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…simply “God,” encourages us to laugh with stereotypical depictions of African Americans as opposed to having us laugh at them—that is, to accept the stereotype as an inside joke. The episode centers on Zoey (Yara Shahidi), the eldest of the Johnson kids, who refuses to pray at the start of family dinner because she has growing doubt concerning the reality of God. For her, the suffering that overwhelms human experience challenges belief. Can there…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…temporarily, of U.S.-funded programs that provide testing, condoms and medical care to gays. About 30 percent of gay men in Tanzania are HIV-positive; now health workers say that figure could rise… The ban comes after months of bitter speeches and threats from Tanzanian officials aimed at the gay community and at organizations treating its HIV/AIDS patients. This year, police raided two U.S.-funded HIV/AIDS organizations and seized confidential pa…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…t of their involvement. On the other hand, I recognize that not all clergy can be on the ground, but if they can lend their support to the movement they ought to do that. This a matter of justice, and clergy ought to be at the forefront of any justice movement. Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black Lives Matter hashtag was created by three Black women, two of whom are queer. Yet, their leade…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…mocratic nominee by 22 percentage points relative to 2012.” This is significant because weekly church attendance has proven a reliable marker for more conservative Catholics, and it’s this group—white, regular church-going Catholics—who have been moving toward the Republican Party with alacrity since 2000, even as the overall Catholic vote has leaned somewhat Democratic because of the increase in Hispanic Catholics. These are the Pope John Paul II…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…go in restricting the availability of contraception and perhaps other medical care of which they do not approve, remains to be seen. The most visible implication has been the way that the Right then used the third party principle to try to allow conservative Christian business owners to deny service to married same-sex couples, or those intending to be married. The argument (which is disturbingly similar to arguments against recognition of interr…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…mental gymnastics. The Buddhist approach to the science-faith question is not the tortured intellectual affair as it can be for many, who strain to see how God’s action in the world can square with certain physical laws or with some detail of evolutionary theory, or who reject God altogether because God can’t be strapped to a lab bench and poked and prodded. It is so different from that. Buddhists spend their lives coming to see the world clearly,…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…e who knows me knows I’m a bit of a smartass and I make lots of mistakes because I can be stubborn or just clueless sometimes. That comes through in the book, I hope, not in an annoying way, but just in an ordinary way. Moreover, I wanted the book to have a certain feel to it, like you were meeting me for the first time and you, the reader, and I were stuck late at night in an airport somewhere while a storm grounded all flights and I just started…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…alled to live and be and act? In this present context, how do we make Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age?” But an earlier statement about the “differentiation” from the actions of the General Convention insisted that “our action is not to be construed as a departure from the Episcopal Church.” Opening the Doors Too Far? The approval of a number of other resolutions unrelated to gender, sexuality, and relationships drew little media attention but…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…l Mero, head of the Mormon think tank the Sutherland Institute. The ecumenical call to arms extols a conservative lifestyle where fathers lead and women honor their highest domestic calling by becoming “prolific mothers” of “full quivers of children.” In service of that goal, Carlson, who has helped craft policy for ultra-right Senator Sam Brownback and Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska, hopes to involve the state in a pro-family welfare system…