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What do Crystal Meth and Contraception Have In Common?

By Kara Loewentheil

…itating communion with the divine. And in a religion like Wicca, without a central authority (like the Pope, for instance), how do we determine that the use of meth is not in fact central to this particular Wiccan’s religious exercise? I’m not suggesting we can’t determine that, but I am suggesting that if we think that’s an easy question we should be more cautious about the willingness thus far of courts to throw up their hands and refuse to prob…

Atheists Gather in Burbank: A Humanist’s Response

By Anthony B. Pinn

…the table. I was at the convention to give a talk from the perspective of African American Humanism. While there are many things I share with atheists, I disagree with this aggressive (one might even say fundamentalist) dismissal of religion and the mocking of all things religious. I am convinced that extremists (whether theists or non-theists) with their inability for critical self-reflection and critique are not the best champions of healthy li…

What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed

By Gary Dorrien

…us loving all the children. They puzzled that white Christians ignored the central gospel teachings. And they kept alive the hope of breaking white supremacy. Had King or his teachers accepted the standard indictment that black churches were too conservative to promote protest activism, there would have been no Birmingham or Selma. The SCLC was distinctly geared for the work of America’s greatest liberation movement. It took an organization of pre…

A Fleeting Moment of Democracy for California’s Same-Sex Couples

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…ne, with Florida set to vote on a Constitutional amendment in November and Republican candidate John McCain’s home state of Arizona considering the same. Twenty-seven states already have Constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage. If heterosexual marriage were so sacred, we’d expect conservatives to be just as noisy about television shows like The Bachelor, or a host of other programs that cavalierly join people in matrimony for a bum…

Mormons, Jews Reach Accord Over Proxy Baptism

By Joanna Brooks

…e that has also benefitted causes as diverse as breast cancer research and African-American history. But it has not stopped some overzealous LDS people from submitting for proxy baptism the names of individuals they cannot claim as relatives—including Holocaust victims. An act that might have seemed to LDS people deep in the heart of the Book-of-Mormon-belt a gesture of respect for Jews was, of course, an outrage to Jewish people who believe that…

Michael Jackson, Perfect “God” for the Media Age

By Kathryn Lofton

…k leaders, the increase in black CEOs, and the multiplication of roles for African Americans in media and popular culture), MJ seemed to make himself the image of an oppressor that was no longer so obviously menacing. Many scholars will, I imagine, frame MJ’s racial transformation as a rebuke, a morphing protest to any post-’60s liberal satisfaction. Just like eating disorders among adolescent women suggest to some the pervasive failure of feminis…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g hit,” allowing her to attract correspondents in every country across the African continent. She told AFP the magazine’s two phone lines ring off the hook. But there is still a lot of opposition. Copies in some eastern Ugandan shops have been burned, and distributors in the west have been threatened. Nabagesera says she herself was threatened with legal action after one issue was delivered to a church. And Uganda’s ethics minister warned Nabagese…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…e has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered” at Lake Forest’s Saddleb…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…or intellectual capability that can even compare. Malcolm was about a pan-African consciousness and, after becoming a Muslim, global consciousness. Beck’s nastiness comes from rapacious self-aggrandizement. Comparing X to Beck is just plain ignorant. A shrewd snake-oil evangelist who knows how to pull at the heartstrings of his constituency has hijacked the narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. That constituency, floundering because the old lea…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…hallenging traditional Church leaders as legitimate representatives of the African American community. Will new cleavages appear within evangelicalism (or deepen within the Black Church), pitting these factions against each other? Or, will those groups that are not invested in either the evangelical industrial complex, or remaining culture war issues like LGBT rights, move to create alternative institutions that better serve their needs? 3. The Fr…