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When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…n that it pulls one element of identity—religious affiliation—to the fore, reads it as a core fulcrum of tension, and then builds an entire process of negotiation and diplomacy around that one identity point. This seems like a narrow way to think about identity. It’s also a narrow way to think about pluralism, which involves the interaction of all kinds of worldviews, not just those that fit into the box we call faith—itself a very Christian conce…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…d hope. Their understanding of the gospel includes everyone—insiders, outsiders, the strong and the downtrodden—and that truly is good news….

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…hem was a report that Egypt was second for online porn inquiries. I didn’t read all the details—like second to which country? Actually, I thought it would have been second to Pakistan, which I had read a similar report about some time ago. I know, you probably thought it would be some where in the Gulf, but it’s not. I’m not sure what that says (about you, or,) about the Gulf. Because then there was this story from the Gulf. Some “Saudi Prince” is…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…id 90s, men are barred from ordination if they oppose female priests. Eva Brunne, the Archbishop of Stockholm, was the first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream Christian church, and her partner Gunilla Landen is also ordained. Jackelen, who became the first female archbishop in Sweden in 2013, told Radio Sweden that she wanted to downplay her gender. “I have been a woman all my life,” she said, “so I carry that with me in everything I do.” But,…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…s easy to dismiss Trump’s extremist rhetoric as just another occasion of “Trump being Trump.” Because the deluge is unrelenting, paying attention is emotionally and morally exhausting. But especially now that he has essentially secured the nomination as the next GOP presidential candidate, it is vital that we sound the alarm as Trump tells us exactly what we can expect if he returns to power. Last November, I wrote a column highlighting Trump’s em…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…upremacy in those lands, though he’d no doubt be aghast at how the term is today most often associated with druidical quasi-pagans or fans of Enya. Twentieth-century novelist James Joyce, a critic of colonialism and nationalism who would no doubt be despised by someone like Buchanan, also alluded to the need for a separate, muscular Celtic Christianity as distinct from the conservative Irish Catholic Church, describing his native land in Ulysses a…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…eli Jewish attacks and takeovers of Palestinian land, as is happening in Jerusalem and Gaza today. As shocking as it would have been, then, for an antisemite like Evans to lead the March of the Living, in one sense he would have felt right at home amidst the Israeli warplanes, soldiers, and evocations of nationalism and military might that unfortunately characterize the ceremony today. Many right-wing Israeli outlets celebrated the false news that…

Tattoos, Cremation, Personal Spirituality: The Jewish World in Transformation

By Dana Evan Kaplan

…an ancient tree. The core of any mature tree is old wood. The old wood is crucial to maintaining the tree structure but it is no longer growing. The growth is only taking place in the outermost ring. We today are that outermost ring and we are the ones responsible for growing Judaism. We need to listen to the voices of the past in order to absorb ancient wisdom which, with a little imagination, is still applicable today. But some things the past…

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…nd Belief is an “intentionally provocative work,” it was, at least to this reader, quite refreshing and reassuring during an era of fake news and alternative facts. Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience Jack N. Rakove Oxford University Press August, 2020 Instead of Virgil guiding us through Dante’s nine circles of hell, it’s Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who walk readers through the intellectual history of religious freedom in America. The sages o…

Trump to Meet with Controversial Televangelist Today

By Anthea Butler

…e down, but he is not completely out of the Republican presidential race. Trump’s prosperity pal and Trump Towers tenant Paula White has arranged for Trump to meet a group of about two dozen Christian pastors in New York today. According to CBN, White arranged the meeting on her own initiative, and the meeting is closed to the public. White herself is no stranger to controversy, as she was a target of the Grassley televangelist investigation (with…