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Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…renthood, cutting off contraceptive access, implementing a religious conservative agenda will hurt them,” he said. O’Brien cautioned, however, that Democrats had to be careful to not fall into the trap of selling out progressive values like support for reproductive rights to win back working class Catholics. Krueger says that the best political way forward for the Democrats is what he calls a “50-state/all constituencies” strategy that includes a…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…y changers and banks. They consider their own currency to have the greater value. So I lived in Indonesia for a year and a half without ever getting a local bank account. At this point the ubiquitous ATM is one way to access your own resources in the local currency. I love that. The only drawback is the international transaction fee. It was five dollars when I was in Indonesia, so I had to hit the ATM machines that offered the maximum withdrawal a…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…ment would have struck me as preposterous, perhaps as an expression of the Vatican’s deep need to be way out ahead of everyone else on matters of science. (That Galileo affair really stung, didn’t it?) But in this reverse view, looking down on Earth from Gliese 581g, things seem a little less silly and a lot more interesting. Because the truth is, there are creatures, lost somewhere in the vast darkness of the cosmos, who baptize one another, who…

Commies, Blacks, Jews, the UCC and Other Threats to America

By Daniel Schultz

…ligious Institute The Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Council of Churches The New Testement Revival Cathedral Resurrection Temple of the Lord Prayer, Praise and Worship Centers of America National Missionary Baptist Church National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Mother A.M.E. Zion Church Lemeul Haynes Congregational Church Jewish Labor Committee Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…the study of forms of paganism, and critique has been brought to popular evangelical books on witchcraft, with evangelicals and pagans even coming together as described in Beyond the Burning Times (Lion, 2009). Halloween is also a good time to confront monsters. Monster Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 1994), a series of essays edited by Jeffrey Cohen, addresses this question: “Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawne…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…September 11, 2001, all three of these avenues continued with only slight variations and abatements of immigration, because the laws changed three times. In the middle part of the 20th century, the largest influx of immigrant Muslims came. Now again we experience great restrictions on immigration (and not just against Muslims). The one constant in that picture was African-Americans. Ours is the story still not well known, despite our numbers. For…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…al) versus a “them” (evil, gay). Additionally, hierarchical conceptions of value and worth are implicit in many of our theological notions. Needless to say, value and worth are not distributed equally in these hierarchies. God is at the top, (white, heterosexual) men come soon after and all those less valued by the culture (women, children, LGBT people, the poor, racial minorities, etc.) fall somewhere down below. And it all makes perfect sense if…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…described favorably as “a Pontiff who permits baseball to be played in the Vatican grounds and who enjoys watching the game from his window.” The ambivalent relationship between the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the American media has continued ever since. There is no other job opening on Earth that would receive so much attention—despite, or maybe due to, the fact that many prominent journalists are openly hostile to the teachings of th…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…Some observers opined that this cancellation represented a defeat for the values of religious tolerance and pluralism that Harvard has traditionally espoused. JUNE In June, Greaves did a number of interviews taking aim at Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and his efforts to ban gay marriage and limit access to abortion. A native of Detroit, Greaves called Snyder “an idiot governor.” He discussed campaigns that would invoke the free exercise clause to…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…n outsized presence in American culture. That largely happened through innovation, including the Christian television talk show format, which Bakker pioneered with Pat Robertson at the Christian Broadcasting Network in the 1960s, PTL’s private satellite network, launched in 1978, a year before ESPN, and the theme park, Heritage USA. The Bakkers signature television show, the PTL Club, was broadcast live, five days a week, with little scripting. Ta…