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Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…rdly the only African country where Anglicanism is growing quickly. In the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a critical voice for peace in a divided and unstable nation. Nearly half the population identifies as Anglican, following rapid growth during the country’s recently-ended civil war. Across southern Africa, the Anglican Church, following the model of its onetime leader Desmond Tutu, continues to be a voice…

Former Opponent Invites Gays to the Wedding Party

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…been the case, but with former funders like Sean Fieler, the president of New York hedge fund company Equinox Partners, Blankenhorn doesn’t really need enemies. “The problem with gay marriage and the position David has taken,” Mr. Fieler said, “is it promotes a very harmful myth about the gay lifestyle. It suggests that gay relationships lend themselves to monogamy, stability, health and parenting in the same way heterosexual relationships do. Th…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…ood Broun, the leftist columnist with whom he shared the front page of the New York World-Telegram beginning in 1932, once observed of the angry man to his right, “Some day somebody should take the hide off Peg because the stuff inside is so much better than the varnished surface which blinks in the sunlight of public approval.” That’s not to say Peg was a sweetie underneath. He was an angry man through and through, born into hatred of Hearst inhe…

The Surprising Catholic Roots of the War on Xmas

By Patricia Miller

…nstream society. His first faux controversy was a protest over a VHI ad on New York City buses that showed the performer Madonna next to the Madonna, which he called “a form of blasphemy.” The “controversy” earned Donohue widespread media attention—the ads were removed—and more ginned-up instances of “anti-Catholicism” followed, like a protest against the 1995 movie “Priest” that caused the Knights of Columbus to dump 50,000 shares of Disney stock…

Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween

By Ed Simon

…few months before. It certainly feels as if that gossamer veil between the world as is and the world to come is a bit thinner. It is nature’s memento mori, the natural time in the calendar for cultures to mark death and dying, to commemorate and recognize it. In the contemporary world our twin idols of positivist science and neutered religion have sanitized our experience. In exorcising the world of our demons we’ve made our angels leave as well….

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ty to a higher standard. Transitioning to the historic Riverside Church in New York City, he will focus on building bridges between the mainline Protestant and evangelical worlds. One part of his vision he hopes to advance: bringing church policies out of the shadows. Ambiguous church policies hurt congregants, George argues. For example, most churches claim to “welcome everybody,” but quietly hold policies that exclude particular communities. For…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…l the same contentious nature of religious and racial chosenness that pits New World “Others” (Blacks) versus the Old World Others (European Jews) in America’s racial hierarchy that James Baldwin warned about decades earlier. Taking Baldwin’s analysis as a guide, I reject the simple and easy condemnation of anti-Semitism and challenge readers to question the imbalanced power differential that constantly relegates Black people to second-class statu…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…ask, “What could you accomplish if you had someone—something—like this?” A newspaper headline states: “Robots threaten 10 Million Jobs.” In the world of Humans a linear progression of android development has resulted in synths who match or exceed human dexterity and capability enabling them to take over a number of jobs, from waiters to nurses to 9-1-1 operators. Low-skilled workers have been displaced en masse, spawning the “We Are People” moveme…

Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…e this new satanic army will also be rapidly destroyed, permitting a shiny new Jerusalem to descend from the clouds—a new Jerusalem from which Jesus will rule forever over a world where death is no more. Personally, I have always wondered why, if Jesus is destined to be victorious, he and God should put themselves to so much trouble first. It seems to me that by delaying the inevitable, they are actually colluding with the beast, the false prophet…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…o incorporate the guru’s yogic methods into the gay-reversal program. In a New York Times interview following the announcement, Tawadkar warned, “We will definitely use law as a tool to teach them what is right and what is wrong.” Purity politics If there’s a single theme that unifies Ramdev’s work, it’s the quest for purity—pure foods, pure medicines, pure sexuality, pure politics, and a pure Indian nation. “Because of pollution in food, thought,…