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Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…audience believing that God had a great deal of interest in helping middle-class Americans with their personal problems and conflicts, though He and His messengers seemed to spend little time dealing with war, famine, and social injustice. Feel-good angelmania suddenly appeared everywhere. The hugely popular Ask Your Angels (1992) told its readers that they were surrounded with heavenly helpers interested in providing “empowerment.” “Angel Tarot C…

Fear of Empathy: Senate Republicans Attack Sotomayor

By Laurie Patton

…ibes above. But President Obama in contrast seemed to be putting his first-class education to good use by choosing his words carefully when he spoke of empathy. Unlike the senators, he knew what he was talking about. The quality of justice meted out by anyone on the bench clearly necessitates being able to imagine the situation of all parties involved. Judgments by juries made up of laypeople like myself involving things like “premeditation” or “c…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ld care about diversity in the authors we read. It helps that the seminary classroom at Boston University, where I teach, is probably the most diverse classroom I’ve ever encountered—so there is almost nothing you can say that won’t offend someone. It’s a very difficult place to teach, but mostly it’s fun, and that diversity is a great thing. “THE MOTHERHOOD PENALTY” Laurie Maffly-Kipp: My first suggestion is to stop seeing childbearing as a woman…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…cation system shaped by Thomas Macaulay, whose stated aim was to create “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Thanks in large part to church-funded publications and university scholarship, Christianity also became part of the rhetoric of liberation among low caste populations and regional language groups such as Tamils. This idea of Christianity “liberating” the uncivilize…

Anti-Gay Republican Senator Comes Out as LGBT Ally

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…exuality by church and society really does rob the banks of those whose livelihood depends on keeping LGBT people second class citizens….

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…end the war,” he was greeted enthusiastically. One-third of the graduating class, which cheered as the senator walked into the room, wore black bands to signify opposition to the war. Students in a balcony unfurled a banner that read, “Blessed are the peacemakers. We’re with you, Mark.” Hatfield’s speech, entitled “American Democracy and American Evangelicalism—New Perspectives,” returned the favor. Fuller’s mandate, Hatfield said, was to offer a…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…re, he added that God would put all students in the town at the top of the class, heal all cancers, cure HIV and AIDS, help all unmarried persons find a partner, and render all barren wombs fertile. A loud cheer erupted as Kolenda prophesied a population explosion in Gulu nine months hence—despite the fact that Uganda presently has one of the highest birth rates in the world. At this point, several of our student group took to their heels in disgu…

Do Boys in Tutus Break God’s ‘Chain of Command’?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…society that we never notice them anymore — until a little boy walks into class in a dress. Despite their status as victims, however, what these women did to this mother is nothing short of bullying. Their reactions — even though they may come masked as “concern” — really spring from an unconscious place of deeply internalized misogyny. More importantly, these mothers are models for their children — and in attacking this mother for “allowing” her…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ed him chuckles from the audience—Carl says that his book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, was originally supposed to be called “It’s Okay to Be White,” but that his publisher’s sales staff eventually convinced him to rename the book because, they told him, “we’re not going to be able to sell that into Costco and Barnes and Noble with that title.” He laments: If I had a book that was entitled It’s Okay to Be…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ely vulnerable to the effects of unequal access to healthcare due to race, class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or geography. We support religious freedom. Religious freedom means that each individual has the right to exercise their own beliefs and the right not to have others’ beliefs forced upon them. We believe no employer has the right to deny the women who work for them basic health care. Individuals must have the rig…