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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al orientation lie at the core of fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution,” Justice Dhananjay Y Chandrachud, who authored the lead judgment holding privacy to be a fundamental right, said. The nine-judge bench’s order will considerably reduce the previous judgment’s chilling effect on LGBT rights. It scythed through the logic in the 2014 judgment in the Suresh Kumar Koushal vs Naz Foundation case saying it was i…

Graham Whistles “Dixie” on Morning Joe

By Anthea Butler

…flew Sarah Palin around for her 2009 book tour, and regularly has the tail numbers of his planes blocked at Flightware.com. What does he have to hide? Franklin Graham’s appearances are coordinated to help out whichever Republican conservative candidate he perceives to be on top at any given time. Like his father, he wants to be the prayer partner of Presidents. But Franklin, frankly, is too crass for his own good. Crowing about his Christianity on…

Conservative Christians: Think Twice Before Claiming ‘Islam Is Not a Religion’

By Chad Bauman

…l claims and character of the Catholic religion” (in his Plea for the West, 1835). Similarly, barely more than a century ago, in 1915, Georgia Sen. Thomas E. Watson (whose statue used to adorn the Georgia State Capitol lawn), accused the Roman Catholic hierarchy (in a book of that title), of being the “most damnable group of interlocked secret societies that ever met in darkness, and took hellish oaths to a compact of greed, and lust, and crime, f…

Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…al, or, as is frequently the case, both—are driven to keep that complexity at bay. What Onishi calls Strachan’s “theology of fear” is a powerful weapon in the Christian Right’s battle to uphold white supremacist patriarchy and social domination in the face of declining numbers. America currently faces a very real threat of minority authoritarian rule by white right-wing Christians like Strachan. And when it comes to fear, if we have any hope of st…

The Culture War of the Future

By Ira Chernus

…tually, that will give them influence far out of proportion to their small numbers, especially as they are the pool from which college teachers are drawn. There is a huge and growing trend for college students to receive the gospel of anti-foundationalism in the classroom, not because their teachers have embarked on any conscious evangelizing mission, but simply because their teachers increasingly see it as their professional responsibility to tea…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…and charisma. Racial reconciliation was central to PK’s message back in the 1990s. The genius of PK, in one sense, was that it tapped into that decade’s multicultural zeitgeist, giving it a spiritual spin. The stadium rallies provided tableaux of white, Latino, Asian, Native American, and African American men, singing, holding hands, and praying together in a show of Christian male bonding. True, Promise Keepers provided no theological or politica…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…se who preached a radical populist apocalypticism that harkened back to the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. And yet the apocalyptic never leaves. It’s still there, that’s where the polls come back. It’s now assumed by hundreds of millions of Americans that the rapture is a real thing and that Jesus is coming back. It’s a genius theology, because it allows people to look at very diverse, very troubling, very dark contemporary events and put them in a cont…

In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes Less Is More

By Richard Flory

…o be a “free-rider” in these churches than it is in most megachurches. The spiritual community might be smaller, but it asks for deeper involvement from its members. None of this is to suggest that there aren’t urban megachurches in this mix as well. I could list several in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, or any other large metropolitan area, that are attracting large numbers of young, college educated congregants. Yet in many cases, these churche…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…otes any contemporary Republican lean reached its apex with Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory (40%). Since 1988, when George H.W. Bush won 35% of the Jewish vote, no Republican has done better than John McCain, who won 26%, according to data compiled by the pollster Jim Gerstein and presented at the Democratic National Convention. Obama won 78% of the Jewish vote in 2008. Sarna maintains, though, that 30% of Jews might be considered swing voters—and th…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…including Pope Francis who “was informed and gave his assent” to the March 15, 2021 document that set off a firestorm. The Vatican’s ban on same-sex blessings was hardly a surprise to those who keep an eye on all things Roman, as I try to do in this space. What amazes are the many and varied ways some Catholics try to explain and excuse a statement that is perfectly consistent with current institutional church teaching. The welcome surprise is th…