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What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…f, oversimplified opinion. In Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer the Court held that—at least in some circumstances—the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment requires governments to provide taxpayer funds to churches. This newfound requirement is something the dissent argued should, in fact, be prohibited under the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. I have previously written about the facts of Trinity Lutheran, as has RD…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…noon on Friday last. This is a great loss to those of us newly, and not-so-newly, arrived, and I wanted to try to explain why I think this is so. This remarkable monk spent fifty off-and-on years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he was the last confessor that Thomas Merton ever had; and if that wasn’t enough to warrant further discussion, he was also a gay priest who came out in one of his most eloquent essays at the ripe old age of…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…e achieved with no monuments or with everyone’s, because equality is an all-or-nothing concept. Our only choice is to take them up on their offer of equality.” On the Americans United website, Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst, reflects on how this move toward pluralism may end up backfiring on those who wish to establish their version of a Christian America in the public square. Fundamentalists may think they’ve found a clever way to bring the C…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…. The news story spills into sports, financial, and talk shows with the not-so-hidden subtext of retribution. The perception that a wrong needs to be righted plays out on the Buccaneers’ sports field, the stock market, and Backtalk with Baxter. But the reality of the tragedy remains hidden and no one—not the police, nor the reporters nor the families involved—seems interested in sussing it out. In each instance, using, pursuing, or bowing to perce…

Ask the Dust: Do Queer People Have to Explain Themselves to Religious Conservatives?

By The Editors

…I know the intuitive answer to this is “no,” but let me elaborate. I’m a 22-year-old gender non-conforming male person who was raised in the Church of Christ. I think, because I’m genderqueer, they’ve always been paranoid that I would be gay; they sometimes policed my gender expression when I was a child (though not as heavily as some other parents, happily) and sometimes they’ll say things that make me think they believe I’m “sexually broken” som…

The Vatican is the Magic 8-Ball of “Family Life”

By Patricia Miller

…can does seem to be genuinely grappling with how it can show some level of compassion and welcomeness to gay people, while at the same time making it crystal clear that it will never recognize civil same-sex marriage or the right of LGBT people to live in relationships where their sexuality is open. Instead, it suggests making a distinction between the “good” gays who hide their sexual identity and the “bad” gays who insist on living as God made t…

The Book of Mormon, Dark Skin, and Racist Theology

By Joanna Brooks

…gay prejudice. Just as progressive Christians have not expunged from their New Testaments verses like 1 Corinthians 14:34, used to justify the silencing of women. Which means that Mormons, just like other contemporary people of faith, are learning to temper a fundamentalist, literalist interpretation of scripture with more important doctrinal values and knowledge gleaned from experience and spiritual seeking. And just like other contemporary peopl…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…ings as she could, gave the rest away, and lives on Social Security in a 10-by-20-foot low-income housing apartment in Laguna. “I don’t really care about anything. I have my room there and that’s it. I don’t need anything else. I’ve had a good life.” Christine Casey. Photo by Jari Kinnunen. Casey is Roman Catholic but also has an affinity for Buddhism. “I don’t see that there’s any dichotomy there. I have that on my refrigerator—a picture of Thoma…

Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ading Genesis 6, I figured it was all due to pundits like myself doing last-minute exegesis. But who was I kidding, I still had questions about this unique Genesis interpretation. So why not go directly to the source? I enjoyed the interview you and Aronofsky did with Paul Raushenbush at the Huffington Post where you talked about your process of interpreting the Bible for this movie as a “midrash.” It struck me that in all this hubbub about the mo…

Must You Oppose Public Funding Even If You Oppose Abortion?

By Patricia Miller

…ir reproduction.” Unfortunately, notes O’Brien, exactly the opposite has occurred, with “lawmakers’ failure to take a principled stand against” Hyde not only giving it continued legitimacy but creating a series of new, Hyde-related roadblocks to reproductive health care access. [An earlier version of this post misspelled Rosemary Radford Ruether’s name as Rosemary Redford Reuther. RD regrets the error. —The Eds.]…