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A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…any millennial black activists, one’s blackness is not divorced from one’s spirituality. And ultimately, for many, spirituality comes second. For many, it was not that the family of Dylann Roof’s victims actually forgave, it was how immediately they did so. The conversation expanded beyond the Charleston murders to the long history of forgiveness in the black American experience as a response to crimes against humanity. Forgiveness, to the black a…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…seemed to have what I would call an unhealthy obsession with growing their numbers. So maybe you could speak to that? KGV: That’s a tough one, because everything we’re talking about here is community, belonging. And that’s what we all want. I mean particularly now, particularly in this crisis—it’s tough times in a lot of places, and the church has always been this place to come into for support. There’s plenty of good that can be done around that….

Mercy and Justice Can Meet at the Border

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

…ecial attention to the example of the United States, “Toward the end of the 19th century… great waves of people left Europe and moved especially from Italy to America. As usual the Catholic Church devoted special effort and care to the spiritual welfare of these emigrants.” Church prelates have occasionally taken the Church’s stance perhaps too far. Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles once speculated that those who wished to refuse entry to the…

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…o went looking for that elusive beast called “the moderate GOP voter” (RIP, 1988). The other candidate, Tim Donnelly made a name for himself as a member of the border militia known as the Minuteman Project. No, the spectacle called Trump laid bare just how thin the GOP’s motives were in its rebranding efforts. The GOP was not hostile to Latinos/as; they wanted our votes because we are “family values” voters. Let’s just admit that the GOP has conce…

Cut-Off Date for Comments on “Conscience Clause”

By Kathryn Joyce

…se to side with a growing anticontraception religious movement, which only numbers in the tens of thousands but has an outsized influence in spreading its ideology through the growing support of churches and religious bodies. The reaction to the leaked draft was immediate and last month sociologist Carol Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience, wrote about the commonsense objection of medical professionals and abortion rights advocates to the HHS m…

The Only Thing Evangelicals Will Never Forgive Is Not Hating the “Other”

By Frank Schaeffer

…leaders too, as well as ordinary folks living what amount to intellectual/spiritual double lives. Perhaps it’s because they are being presented with bad alternatives that they believe they must choose between: Frank, After leaving the strait jacket of evangelicalism, I can breathe… I was out of step as an evangelical pastor [with] my quotes of Bob Dylan, celebration of sexuality when the [biblical] passage called for it and a demand for truth tho…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…bout their church habits, when you count the bodies in the pews, fewer than 18% of Americans attend any church regularly; 82% don’t. • When asked to rate eleven groups in terms of respect, non-Christians rated evangelicals tenth. Only prostitutes ranked lower. After the stories of hypocritical preachers and political moralists caught with paid lovers, it might be interesting to ask the prostitutes about that ranking. Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet…

Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice

By Eric Reitan

…h being the one who “first proposed the legal challenge idea to me on March 14th” and who “made the brilliant suggestion of (barrister) Geoffrey Robertson” to pursue the case. If there is a brainchild for this nascent “arrest the Pope” movement, that honor would be Hitchens’. So, what should we think about this New Atheist call to have the Pope arrested? Let me begin by confessing to having had occasional fantasies recently of seeing Pope Benedict…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…avior in the White House. When JFK Jr. didn’t come back Screenshot of Qdrop 1082, from the 8kun board where “Q” posts (the string of numbers are Q’s previous messages he is replying to) , hinting at a link between JFK Jr.’s plane crash in 1999 and Hillary Clinton’s run for Senate in 2000. In 2018, QAnon adherents became convinced that Q, whose identity remains a mystery, was JFK Jr. This conspiracy theory began in April 2018 following Qdrop 1082 […

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…ays been done? What I mean is, are there genuine social or intellectual or spiritual reasons for going to church? Yes. Underneath all the nonsense and pomposity, there are some good reasons: community, meaning, connection with the past. But I would like to suggest that, ultimately, people go to church because of mystery. This is not mystery in the sense of Whodunit?, or “What makes a rainbow so pretty?”; instead, this is the very mystery of existe…