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Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…Billy’s exorcisms of Starbucks cash registers and revival meetings in Wal-Mart parking lots, running for mayor is going too far. “I’ve been really disappointed in how narrow people’s picture of what politicians are,” says Savitri Durkee, producer of the Church of Life After Shopping—part theater troupe and part activist community. She is also Talen’s wife, four months pregnant with their first child. Durkee speaks of “the tyranny of the practical”…

The Russian Patriarch Just Gave His Most Dangerous Speech Yet — And Almost No One in the West Has Noticed

By Katherine Kelaidis

…l of the Armed Forces, is receiving less attention, though this sermon was arguably far more dangerous and might provide critical insight into what will come next for Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of us. The Fourth Sunday in Lent is dedicated to the commemoration of St. John Climacus (also known as St. John of the Ladder) in the Eastern Christian tradition. Little is known about this early Desert Father, except that he’s the author of one of Chris…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…I do remember are the mantras: “Segregation is our tradition” and “Blacks are separate but equal.” I studied geology in college with the hope of getting rich in the oil fields of Texas, but as a patriotic graduate I joined the military, my ticket out of Louisiana and an opportunity to explore the world. In my fourth year, having become a naval officer, I volunteered for shore duty in Vietnam which would become a turning point in my life. Never ha…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…bear the conditions of their life. This time it will not be a state for a particular ethnic or religious group, but for people who sense a kinship of values, who are prepared to work toward a future virtually unthinkable in the present. Two girls, one Palestinian, one Jewish, are thinking about these things, whispering about them before they fall asleep at night, keeping themselves awake with ideas they have never shared with anyone else, sending…

Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…ristian dogma to care for me appropriately. Catholic hospitals, whose standards of care in matters of sexual. gender, and reproductive health are determined by the reactionary United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, currently treat one in seven hospital patients in the United States, and their share of control over hospital systems in the United States only continues to grow. In terms of practical matters, being transgender means there are r…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…ho choose homeschooling do so for religious-ideological reasons. In a sidebar article included in the report, homeschooling parent Andrew Torrez observes: “As a result, the homeschooling community has been largely insular and self-reinforcing for decades. That means that many of the most popular resources and curricula are not just explicitly religious but teach dangerous pseudoscience [and] rewrite history from a Christian nationalist perspective…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…ues can be resolved into a harmonious, if eschatological, unity. I see no particular reason to quarrel with Holland that many generic Christian values persist unrecognized in secular form in this way. Other such Christian beliefs arguably alive in modern secular culture and thought also come to mind. The imperatives of human equality and individualism, universal brotherhood and sisterhood, moral ambiguities regarding the use of violence, misgiving…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…lanted coffee at a communist work camp in Cuba, got paddled on the bum by Margaret Thatcher, and ended up pals with Paul Wolfowitz. I read with particular attention to Hitchens’ new loyalties to atheism and secularism. As a committed atheist and secularist, I often worry that loyalty to the former cause does not always serve the latter. The Deep Peace of Being in Opposition In one of many vivid vignettes, Hitchens recounts a scene caused by Susan…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…capacity for relationships with others.” Charamsa told the Blade he took particular issue with the 2005 edict against gay priests. “It was a real offense to me,” he said. “I am a good priest with my homosexual sensibility, with my homosexual outreach, with my homosexual capacity to sacrifice me to other people.” “We have horrible language of hate, language of violence, stigmatization, marginalization, discrimination of homosexual people,” added C…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…constructed around it. It can, and does, inspire people to do things that are hard and unrewarding. You can care about it so much that popularity becomes secondary. Douthat disagrees with it, presumably, but disagreement isn’t really the issue here. That claim does not simply factor out to secular liberalism without remainder. If he thinks it does, he needs to make that case. He needs to explain why his argument isn’t a circular one wherein “Re…