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Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…es largely from The Mass on the World, completed in 1923.” Fire imagery is central to Teilhard’s writing and Bishop Curry’s selection bears some affinity with “The Mass on the World,” but the sermon’s most direct citation is from an essay titled “The Evolution of Chastity” written in 1934. I find this omission strange, but it could stem from Slattery’s desire to separate Teilhard’s work into an acceptable early portion and an unacceptable latter p…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…onomies are better. As it turns out, no, they are much worse. I’d consider central economic planning a form of hubris. However, there have also been many charges of hubris directed at people who ended up making valuable progress. “If God had meant man to fly, He’d have given him wings.” I think transhumanism contains both elements: there will be real progress that, in retrospect, won’t look like hubris. Few will complain if medical nanobots cure c…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…the womb.” Three days later, Roman Catholic Cardinal Tim Dolan opened the Republican convention with a prayer in which he highlighted “the innocent life of the baby in the womb.” Speakers throughout the convention linked their antiabortion views with their vision of God and country. While the GOP has sought to rally its base, and the Democrats continue to chase antiabortion religious voters on the margins (as they have for years), both parties ig…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion of sharia laws has speeded up since Aceh struck a peace deal with the central government in 2005. Slovenia: Court OK’s Catholic Church-Backed Referendum Challenging Marriage Equality Law On Thursday, the Constitutional Court “gave the go-ahead for a referendum on whether to implement legislation allowing gay marriage, an issue that has divided the central European nation.” More from AFP: The court’s decision comes after parliament in March ad…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…ts in a potentially difficult position. Fierce resistance to abortion is a central plank in the social conservative platform, and has for decades served as one of the standards around which millions of activists and voters have rallied. That a path to the drastic decline in abortions that these individuals have so desperately sought has suddenly been provided them by a president they so openly despise is, at the very least, a political puzzle. But…

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…It was the basis for Nixon’s Southern strategy, wooing the Dixie-crats to Republican small-government-ism. It was why Reagan said government was the problem, and why so many cheered and voted for him. And it’s the reason Bloomberg News gave—the “anti-establishment feeling”—for Iowa Republicans wanting a “government outsider who has handled complex issues and managed teams.” This was candidate preference for 39% of those polled; only 19% preferred…

Immigration As A Progressive Game Changer—Without Evangelical Support

By Sarah Posner

…to reshape itself for the 21st century through the Freedom Federation. His central tenet of theo-politics: to “repudiate the spirit of Herod, the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah, the spirit of Jezebel.” Rodriguez, like the Catholic bishops, opposes immigration reform with LGBT equality. But a bloc of House Democrats are opposed to letting that critical piece of justice fall away from comprehensive immigration reform. As Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), a sup…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…Party in Iowa denied Senator Charles Grassley, the state’s senior elected Republican, a place on the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Iowa Christian Alliance, the state’s most powerful Religious Right organization, has long exerted an outsized influence over the state’s Republican Party, but now it controls a majority of seats on the central committee. Grassley, who was first elected to the Unit…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…and the growing shadow of Christmas shopping. How did the church lose its central position? To paint it in very broad strokes, the shift began as far back as the time of the colonial Puritans, when younger generations continued both church attendance and family dinners but tilted the emphasis toward the dinner and family activities. Later, when New Englanders spread their enthusiasm for Thanksgiving to new regions, they shared the tradition with…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…m scripture (and I’m not the only one who has concluded this) is that very central to God’s purposes in marriage is to give people a means of grace to help them grow into the image of Jesus’ self-giving love. Marriage is this arena where we can totally give ourselves to another person in body, spirit, and life and commitment and grow in that total gift of self which winds up being an image of Jesus’ total gift of himself for us. Critics say that m…