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Defying Eternal Damnation, Catholics will Vote Democratic

By Sarah Posner

…vice notes, in June, the same poll found Obama barely leading Mitt Romney among Catholic voters, 49-47%. But in September, he’s pulled ahead, and now leads Romney among Catholic voters 54-39%. Pew’s comparison with 2008 exit polls showed that Obama’s current standing among Catholics is identical to the percentage of Catholics who voted for him in 2008. But Romney is behind where John McCain fared among Catholics—despite picking a Catholic running…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…at the Right is up to, but in 2016 we know that vast “black pools” of anonymous money will be in play. Does this development not represent a whole new level of challenge to those trying to restore democracy and reclaim a common good ethic? With love, I suggest the word “secret” is more accurate than “black” when talking about the billions of dollars being spent to buy candidates’ souls. Of course, secret pools of money buying Southern elections is…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…for every careless word they speak’ (Mt 12:36). In fairness, I appreciate Moore’s moral clarity on this subject, and, while the man has glaring ethical blind spots, this stance is consistent with his record. Moore has never wavered from his advocacy of the misogynistic belief in divinely ordained male leadership and female submission that was once called “biblical patriarchy” but that now goes by the more genteel-sounding name of “complementarian…

Scott Lively’s Crimes Against Humanity Aren’t Conservative Christian Outliers

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Lively’s book-length claims that Nazism was “an outgrowth of the German homosexual movement” seem like the standard whackadoodle rantings of a religious zealot easily dismissed as “fringe” or a “bad apple” among otherwise decent, if conservative, Christians. But Lively’s hateful rhetoric is not, in fact, an outlier among his peers. Originally from the supposedly liberal bastion of Massachusetts, Lively made a name for himself peddling anti-LGBT a…

Godly Game or Godless Satire? Countering Biblical Ignorance with Heretical Humor

By Betsy Shirley

…them, that’s when you laugh,” said Norris. “Laughter” doesn’t always mean “mockery,” she continued. More often, laughter is a way of “allowing those contradictions in” which can lead “to a deeper understanding.” She likened it to a relationship: “It’s like loving somebody because you think they’re perfect and wonderful and you don’t want to see any of their faults or loving them and knowing that they have those faults.” The creators of A Game for…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…irrors the culture of Conway than either UCA or Hendrix, both of which are more demographically diverse and tend to attract students from elsewhere. Most of Central Baptist’s tiny student body (the school has a current enrollment of about 500) commutes to campus, and many students are part of the college’s adult education program, which caters to older locals returning to college or pursuing an undergraduate degree for the first time. You’re prote…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…er, who had come from a Mississippi sharecropper’s shack to confront the Democratic Party: “Go tell it on the mountain, let my people go! … Must be the people that Moses led, let my people go!” The sermons I had heard Black preachers speak, half shouting, half chanting: “And on the wings of eagles I will bring you, from slavery, from bondage, yes!—from slavery, to be My people—yes, my beloved people.” Yes, on the streets is Pharaoh’s army, and I a…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…0s. I wrote to Coach Wooden as an undergraduate asking for a copy of his famous Pyramid of Success. About a month later I received an autographed copy, along with a nice note. That in turn led me to his textbook, Practical Modern Basketball, first published in 1966, which helped me to work on my game. I was the nerdy kid in high school, not becoming a jock until university. There, I developed and flourished as an athlete. To this day, one of the a…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…calls for a “new concept of martyrdom.” The focus of the site seems to be moving more toward being about Pope Francis and anti-Christian terrorism abroad, and less about the American church and the laity. Where Crux will go from here is unknown, but its demise as a project of secular journalism about the church, and its move toward being supported, at least in part, by a Vatican-sponsored fraternal organization may not bode well. Allen is still o…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…adigm shift, though, a failure to talk about the range of disillusionment among American Jews could prove more damaging than difficult conversations. “Rabbis think they have to find the perfect, nuanced, balanced message that will speak to all of their politically diverse congregants and give them a model,” said JCPA’s Weintraub. But, she added, “Rabbis can exercise leadership by sending the message, wherever you stand, this is where you can come…