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Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…not understand coming from people they do not know. In our well-connected world the universal language is no longer Latin but listening. What is news this time around is that rank and file Catholics want a new Church, not just a new pope. We know that change is in the air because we put it there. Progressive Catholics all over the world are creating new forms of church since the old is so thoroughly discredited. No institution can withstand the o…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…segments of the voting bloc that we can look at. We’ve looked at white evangelicals, poor or working-class whites, we get it. What about the poor or working-class blacks who also believed in the things Trump said? How about the Latinos who voted for Trump as well? It’s time to look at some of these other areas now. The first print issue of Faithfully Magazine can be purchased here….

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ina. As someone who was a resident in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, I will never forget watching the news at my aunt’s house in south central Louisiana, after I had evacuated, as Coast Guard helicopters were rescuing people from their rooftops and dropping them off at the Superdome—the shelter of last resort. In short, the Superdome was not prepared to handle evacuees when it came to the basics of food, water and shelter. Ther…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ons. As Jay Michaelson wrote at The Daily Beast, “climate denial was ‘fake news’ before ‘fake news’ was a thing, and it’s part of the Republican mainstream, not the Trumpist fringe.” There’s a double bind here: we must acknowledge the awful of this event just as we acknowledge the awful coast-to-coast ecological meltdown politically geo-engineered across time. The duty of scholars of religion and theologians is to expose the religious stories that…

80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ree, to move to the top of the list. Postcolonial Leadership Lessons? When rumors of the likely appointment of Welby began flickering across news sites in the UK and then the US just two days after Obama’s rout of Romney, I couldn’t help wondering if the Anglican Communion might not have a few things to learn from the demographic configuration of the GOP defeat. The American GOP is, after all, something of a doppelganger of the racial, ethnic, cla…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ersonal meeting at the Vatican?” …This Pope Francis is hard to find in his latest text,” he said. Crux quotes Dignity USA, an LGBT Catholic advocacy group, noting with disappointment that the document contains “no strong call for an end to anti-LGBT violence, for Church officials to avoid inflammatory statements against the LGBT community, or for a clear statement that LGBT people and supporters are welcome to participate in the Church’s sacrament…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…ut it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule,” Trump said. “And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Yahoo News asked Trump whether this level of tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of s…

Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber

By Elizabeth Drescher

…of skeptical opinions and experiences of life—all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever: “When people exchange information, they are already sharing themselves, their view of the world, their hopes, their ideals.” The active questioning, the exchange of information, the sharing of self that Benedict has rightly highlighted as a feature of new media platforms, and that presents profound opportunities…

Ken Mehlman: Sorry about All the Anti-Gay Stuff!

By Sarah Posner

…nfluence to deprive people (including oneself) of basic civil rights. Good news. As Schaller’s piece notes, although on a national level opposition to gay marriage is losing its potency, that hasn’t diminished the vigor of anti-gay activists in the states to block marriage equality measures, or, as is about to happen in Maryland, push referenda that would reverse marriage equality laws passed in the legislature. That’s why it’s good news when some…

Should the Post Have Published Photo of Subway Victim?: Two Opinions

By Jason Anthony

…ser tastes for gore, sex and voyeurism. By this measure, the Post is a bad news outlet. But it doesn’t change the fact that a death on the subway is news, the story of life as it happens, the impartial mirror we rely on to tell us the real story about ourselves.” [Read the rest] Rachel Wagner: “All the Wrong Reasons” “Han’s death strikes a chord for us because we don’t know him, and because we can see ourselves in him through his anonymity. It is…