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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…eir takes on Jesus, President Obama has made it very clear that the golden rule is an animating principle of his politics. He has invoked it in his writings and in his explanation of why he now supports same-sex marriage. In this regard, he follows a long history of abolitionists and civil rights activists who have wanted to apply the golden rule directly to issues of social justice. Romney, alternatively, has not spoken at length about Jesus in h…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…President Trump!” (presumably for allowing them to visit.) But it was the truest of true believers, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, who best encapsulated the Easter message of the Trump White house by reading Christian Easter stories to their captive audiences. Kellyanne took her turn at the dais to read God Gave us Easter, by Lisa Tawn Bergren, a “delightful illustrated picture book for ages 3 and up” which “features the adorable pol…

Philadelphia Man Blames Bible for Stoning Death

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…” as if it settles an argument once and for all is a terribly naïve way to read a very complicated text. Instead, one must be trained to actually read the Bible in a responsible manner – preferably, as Hauerwas states, within a community dedicated to taking the Bible seriously. As Jennifer Wright Knust writes in her latest book, Unprotected Texts, “The only way the Bible can be regarded as straightforward and simple is if no one bothers to read it…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…Hagee and Rod Parsley, due to controversial remarks unearthed by blogger Bruce Wilson, read Wilson’s account of his research and the unlikely Youtube video that led to the parting of the Johns here —ed.] +++++ When the divisive San Antonio televangelist and megachurch pastor John Hagee endorsed John McCain for president last week, reporters and bloggers fired up the Google, cracked open Hagee’s twenty-two published books, and scoured YouTube. The…

Al-Qur’an and Me

By Amina Wadud

…le of the text that drove me. Every word I learned, every grammatical construct, I had already come upon in the Qur’an—although by using the phonetics alone. About the only thing that slowed down this rabid pace was becoming a mother. So I had two children (including one born in Libya, where the knots in my ear and my tongue were loosened) before I had a chance to pick up my love again. After one year in graduate school I spent a year in Cairo spe…

Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…single soul in charity.” In this way we might produce powerful antiracist readings of Teilhard while acknowledging this is a project partially engaged with reading Teilhard against himself. This certainly seems to be the approach of Bishop Michael Curry who bracketed Teilhard’s invocation of love’s fiery power with similar sentiment from Martin Luther King. It’s important to highlight and discuss Teilhard’s problematic passages, but John Slattery…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…d what a predicate nominative was that year, and that year I also began to read newspaper pieces, for school, about the Vietnam War. It was 1971. I got an “A” on a literature project in which I used Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” as a poem. In one lesson, while introducing the concept of “pacifism,” Sister dropped the name of a priest called “Berrigan.” She recounted a story she’d heard from one of the Fathers Berrigan. I wish I remembered it all mo…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…anthem. A Scott supporter, she compared the setting to the carefully constructed world in the movie The Truman Show. “He lived his whole life in that world,” she said (probably not realizing what she was saying), “and then you find out it’s not real.” While Scott’s budget has been criticized for eviscerating public education, the bandstand (in a direct line of sight from the television cameras and behind the spot where the governor would sign the…

Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

…t to mention a wide range of other foul crimes against people of color, including the Europeans’ genocidal treatment of the First Nations.” Truth-telling without despair. Read the whole thing here….

Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation

By Donna Schaper

…The Church, argued the reformers, had turned Christianity into a bunch of rules and regulations, rights and wrongs. And it had institutionalized the Holier Spirits. Like the Jesus of sacramental bread and wine, the reformers turned the tables on institutional religion. You can just hear them saying, “I’m spiritual but not religious.” Or, “I don’t like the institutional church or organized religion.” “I am a cultural Christian.” “I am a post-denom…