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As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

By Ryann Croken

…er that gives no explicit, logical promise of security. Whenever I see the word “heaven” nowadays, I think of the word “heaving,” as in, effort, as in lifting, as in vomiting, as in, mostly, the thing that seas do, which you cannot control. That’s why transphobia seems to me, among other things, a spiritual offense, one so often committed by petty zealots in the name of religion. In an immediate material sense, transphobia is dangerous—to me and m…

Yearning For A God We Can Live With

By Benjamin Weiner

…ia would tell us, leads to nothing less than the obliteration of the known world. God-Management Systems? Two new works of progressive theology, whose nearly identical titles both appear to advocate an undoing of the tzimtzum, might therefore be greeted with trepidation: It’s Really All About God by Samir Selmanovic, and Everything is God by Jay Michaelson. Beneath the covers of these books, which are also remarkably similar in design (the word “G…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…knowledge to myself that I was gay, but that was after years of turmoil, struggling with the fact that I knew I was attracted to other guys and I didn’t know why. I kept thinking it was something I would grow out of, but when I didn’t I found myself ultimately crying myself to sleep, begging God night after night, “Please don’t let me feel this way anymore.” I was dating girls. I considered myself straight, but eventually I had to acknowledge I wa…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…e of a guest who felt lucky to be there, but someone who belonged there—a true American worthy of sharing the podium with the leader of the free world. Obama acknowledged as much in his speech, referring to Nguyen’s role as a spiritual advisor and community organizer during Hurricane Katrina, when he sheltered hundreds of Vietnamese families in his church and remained with them during the floods until the last family was rescued. Now with the BP o…

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

By Eric Reitan

…he papacy carries). But Hitchens and Dawkins display no such qualms. Their words, quoted in the Times article, seem to be premised on Cardinal Ratzinger’s criminal complicity. “This is a man,” Dawkins says, “whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.” Is he right? Getting a clear answer isn’t easy. A recent report reveals that while Ratzinger was archbish…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…rights activists are finding patterns in something else: the high-profile news stories of female teachers who have sexually abused their underage male students. People who don’t like feminism—or who may simply harbor a distaste for women in general—look at those stories, see a pattern, and conclude that it’s the fault of the sexual revolution and women working outside the home. So, too, with critics of the Human Rights Campaign, whose co-founder…

Times Public Editor Slaps Down Unscientific Claims About Emergency Contraception

By Sarah Posner

In a post this afternoon, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan takes a look at a Room for Debate that asked, after the CVS chain announced it would stop selling tobacco products, “What unhealthy products should CVS stop selling?” One of the answers, from Donna J. Harrison, the executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, was the emergency contraceptives ella and Plan B, which, she argued, “…

Is the NY Times “Dumbing Down” Religion?

By Lisa Webster

…R a few weeks ago, even with the lively hed, “Dumbing Religion Down in the New York Times.” A must-read, as it turns out. The focus of Wieseltier’s passionate annoyance, Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, responded a few days later in The Immanent Frame. And she was gracious, calling it a “distinct honor” to be lambasted by someone as “lettered” as Wieseltier (although calling TNR’s literary editor “lettered” is like calling the Dalai Lama a…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…f it in class for years to come. [Full disclosure: I was interviewed a few times by the show’s producers—once in person and several times by phone—and gave them some advice on what kinds of material I would like to see included.] But I do want to ask what this series would look like if we also understand American religious history to be about coercion and authority? Most of God in America is about the white Protestant majority in American history….

Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest

By Leah Pannell

…ruptive. As a Christian, my faith tells me that God understood this and disrupted the world in a human body. Filled with the Spirit, Jesus declared, “You have nothing to lose but your chains!” He walked the earth, protesting the powers of death and darkness, disrupting systems as he healed the sick, embraced the poor, and ultimately claimed victory over death and the grave. It’s hard for me to comprehend how so many fellow Christians misunderstand…