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The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at on barstools drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and praising God. They knew all the words, and they smiled and danced while they sang. They were enraptured, taken over by their joy. They were worshiping. That bar was church. I can’t help but think that it’s like this even in our “secular” spaces. When queer people come together, they create a community that is alive. It’s made up of individual people, but it’s one body that moves. When you are…

Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…ide-hugs, and more time worrying about the high rates of teen pregnancy in New York City and beyond? What would the world look like if we did not just invite homeless people to church, or revel in annual trips abroad to feed and take care of the poor, but addressed the growing housing and voting crises right here in our own backyard? What if we began talking about the increasing number of Black and Latino women, men and children that die at the ha…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…lic Renaissance. As journalist and author Michael Pollan wrote in his 2018 New York Times bestselling book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, a growing interest in psychedelics is sweeping the nation as researchers and therapists consider the medicinal and therapeutic benefits of these ancient plants. Based on their initial findings, venture…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…other monks as they make, and come to terms with, the choice to stay. The word “martyr” is mentioned a few times, with both positive and negative connotations, and there are a number of extremely well-acted scenes of agony and anxiety. They meet together at a table under a Gall-Peters world map, a staple of humanitarians that shows the true vastness of the global south. The burden on these men feels just as vast. Mercifully, though, their way of…

Oral Roberts’ Legacy in Televangelism

By Sarah Posner

…healing ministry, of the seed-faith ministry that I had introduced to the world; and Brother Hagin’s fantastic ministry on faith and the word of God. Copeland boasted last year that he has raised a billion dollars in his television career. Two years ago, Roberts’ son Richard was forced out of his position as president of ORU over a scandal alleging that he and his wife, Lindsay, diverted donor funds to family vacations and renovations of their Tu…

What To Do About Southern Baptist President’s Call for End to Hate for LGBT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…religious people will embrace Wright’s idea – and stop the hate, the harsh words and distortions about LGBT people, and instead truly act out of love and compassion, their hearts cannot help but soften toward LGBT people. Same goes for those on the religious left. If we would truly practice compassion for our conservative brothers and sisters, our hearts will soften to them as well. It’s difficult to perpetuate hatred and injustice toward anyone w…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…e for a school year and was soon gone. Shortly after she left, there was a new principal and a new pastor. The parish kept the folk mass, but by the end of eighth grade—1972—posters of fetuses began to appear on the street outside the church as the 9:00 mass let out, and the new pastor, an old Irish-American guy, was harping on communism and the menace of “Red China” on a weekly basis. I stopped going to mass regularly in the spring of 1972. About…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…to references in several speakers’ remarks. But that is not enough for the word-counters at Fox News, who demand to know why the number of uses of “God” has dropped. In response, Sen. Dick Durbin took on the insinuation that the platform revision somehow proved that Democrats are anti-God: Well, I can just basically tell you that if the narrative that is being presented on your station and through your channel and your network is that Democrats ar…

Decoding Rick Warren’s Appreciation for Chick-fil-A

By Elizabeth Drescher

…You cannot possibly ‘hate’ him,” she would insist. “Hate” was a big-ticket word not to be squandered on annoying siblings or corrupt politicians. My mother’s semantic ethics on this point have stayed with me throughout my life, so I’ve never been one to throw around words like “hate,” “hater,” or “hate speech” casually. Words are of course powerful things, filled with the potential for hurt and shame that can linger for years, poisoning souls and…

Federal Court Overturns California’s Prop. 8

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Prop. 8 supporters threw out every argument they could think of to defeat marriage rights for gays and lesbians, and each one of them from procreation to religious liberty to the special rights of heterosexuals to claim the word “marriage,” have been ruled as irrelevant. As the case heads to the conservative leaning Supreme Court, though, another Groucho Marx line comes to mind: “I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.”…