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Pope Says Forgive Women Who’ve Had Abortions

By Patricia Miller

…ntrite heart, seek forgiveness for it.” As Candida R. Moss, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame told NPR: It does serve as a kind of information alert for a group of disenfranchised women who have felt unwelcome by the Church. Even though John Paul II used much the same language and forgiveness has always been available — albeit through more formal channels — that message wasn’t out there because the…

The Second Coming of Black Jesus

By Jess Peacock

…acred and the profane, and the idolatry of orthodoxy and tradition that McGruder and Clattenburg consistently deconstruct throughout the first season—and which, as indicated by the trailer, looks to continue throughout season two (Jesus’ Church of Compton and Taco Truck anyone?). Ultimately, theology is less about what we say about the Divine and more about what we perceive the Divine to be telling us. In Black Jesus, the divine protagonist is sho…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…stian cultures? I attended my first Christian music festival, the Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, in 1998. I was already in graduate school and knew I’d end up writing about Christian conservatives. I attended with three friends (no one was a Christian), and we were outsiders at the concert. There was a capacity crowd, and I remember the crowd standing up and singing along to the opening act. Since none of us was a Christian rock fan, we stuck out bec…

RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…sert that some action is cruel, do I mean simply that I consider it to be cruel or do I mean that it is in fact cruel? Most of us, believers and nonbelievers, mean the latter. This position is called the objectivity of values and C.S. Lewis considered it, and not belief in God, to be the core of a religious orientation. The opposite position, that people invent values, that man is the measure of all things, in other words, is scarcely imaginable….

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…l her hands were, despite her size, and that she was wearing sandals in February in Washington. (Laughter.) We began to talk, and she told me that she knew that we had a shared conviction about adoption being vastly better as a choice for unplanned or unwanted babies. And she asked me—or more properly, she directed me—to work with her to create a home for such babies here in Washington. I know that we often picture, as we’re growing up, God as a m…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…ral transformation. Benjamin Watson, an African-American tight end for the New Orleans Saints, and an evangelical Christian, recently wrote Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race—and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us, which was published on October 17, 2015. Exactly a month previous, the Erwin brothers, who have had rare box-office success with faith-themed films, released an evangelical football story about racial recon…

“Let’s Get in Formation”: Beyoncé’s Spiritual Call for Black Resistance

By Yazmine Nichols

…nsgresses boundaries. Black women gyrate in what looks like a “big house,” breaking the rules in “Massa’s” quarters and desecrating white-designated spaces. Similarly, Beyoncé herself desecrates pop culture. She takes the colloquial term “slay” and turns it into an anthem of resistance. To “slay” means to dance, it means to live, it means getting in formation and surviving. It means having “negro noses with Jackson Five nostrils,” it means eating…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ble to eliminate the indigenous peoples from the land. Some places, like Jerusalem itself, were not taken until much later, during the first unified campaigns under King David, who renamed the city after he took it, as “David’s City.” Why, then, were the children of Israel incapable of completing a God-ordained genocide? Not for moral reasons, oddly enough. No, the real reason is revealed in the next book, the book of Judges. The book of Judges te…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ay. When we start to think about it in this register, it’s not just about cruelty anymore. I think it challenges us to go beyond the simple anti-cruelty ethic, and to acknowledge [one of] the deepest features of what it means to be human. What about farm animals, which we have a very different relationship with? Farmed animals are an even more extreme example. We, as a nation, have basically said that anything human beings want to do to farmed ani…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…, noticing the dramatic, drumroll sounds that preceded the announcement of breaking news, and hearing Wolf Blitzer say, “And CNN can now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, will become the President-Elect of the United States…” I read on the screen “Barack Obama Elected President” and felt the pandemonium of celebration around me. The palpable energy that had until that moment felt like an undercurrent became a gushing waterfall, some of whic…