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Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…as a nonprofit in 2001. By 2007, 80 campus groups had affiliated with them, 100 by 2008, 174 by 2009, and today there are 394 SSA student groups on campuses across the country. “We have been seeing rapid growth in the past couple of years, and it shows no sign of slowing down,” says Jesse Galef, communications director at SSA. “It used to be that we would go to campuses and encourage students to pass out flyers. Now, the students are coming to us…

How Long Does It Take a Man of God to Admit Child Rape is Wrong?

By Joanna Brooks

…enforcement. The LA Times report was based on letters written by Mahony in 1986 and 1987 recently entered as evidence in a civil suit. More documents will be disclosed in the coming weeks. Here at RD, I have argued that it was the feminist movement’s emphasis on bearing witness to sexual abuse that raised consciousness and created critical mass among Catholic laity towards breaking the abuse scandal open. And it sure doesn’t take a degree in gen…

Leading UK Evangelical Comes Out for Gay Acceptance

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ce and forgiveness and Christ commits himself through the work of the Holy Spirit to bring transformation to our lives—a life-long process.” Clifford goes on to talk about how Chalke’s concession will harm the testimony of “ex-gays,” like one Baptist minister who rejected his homosexuality. “This pastor is just one of tens of thousands of Christians who have come to the conclusion that sex was designed by God to be expressed within a committed rel…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…interest in transdisciplinary conversations. Perhaps theologians, pastors, spiritual leaders, people who are spiritually attuned to irreligious forms of creativity, will find some new ways to communicate about these things. But if science is left out of the mix, we will always be off in lala land. We need the incarnational practice of taking into account the most precise knowledge we can find, in the face of the mystery of our embodied existence….

“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale

By Jay Michaelson

…o yearns for a love that Dean can never fully give him. With the sensual spirituality (or spiritual paganism, if you like) secularized into mere “kicks,” the moral balance of On the Road lurches to one side. In the book, there’s a productive tension between the evanescent, yet incandescent, mysticism of pure human experience on the one hand, and the deep ethical consequences of human relationship on the other. This is a crucial and recurring rel…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…ren’s submission to father figures, and individuals’ surrender to the Holy Spirit. Leaders like Feliciano seem to value these perspectives over constitutional principles—principles that were hard-won after the collapse of the military dictatorship less than three decades ago, and cultivated during the slow restoration of democracy ever since. When Feliciano was nominated on March 6, a coalition of gays, lesbians, trans people, women, feminists,…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…key component. With greater numbers of Jews and Catholics on campus in the 1940s and 1950s, one fraternity even changed its charter to limit members to “Caucasian Christians.” Jews and Catholics challenged these discriminatory practices, but also defended their own autonomous organizations. As Schultz so nicely shows, fraternity struggles highlighted the problems of enforced integration. Jewish and Catholic students wanted the right to be a part…

Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…species. He argues that because homosexuality is banned by the Torah, its “spiritual” harm is no different from the “emotional” harm done by a child molester; terminology unknown in halacha and surely disprovable in practice, if “spiritual” has any content whatsoever. And he claims that “the current culture” holds that the meaning of life is “the fulfillment of appetites”—which of course is absurd; my same-sex partnership is about love, holiness,…

Jesus, Muslims, Mormons. And Missouri.

By Haroon Moghul

…o original sin; if one thing characterizes humanity, it’s forgetfulness, a spiritual condition that describes our tendency to miss the forest for the trees. God reminds us of our purpose in the world—to worship God, and to return back to Him—through prophets who address this characteristic of humankind. And while Muhammad is the last Prophet, he is not the Messiah. For Muslims, Jesus, the son of Mary, is the word of God, the spirit of God, and th…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…alettes, props, and costumes make the divisions quickly comprehensible. The 1973 San Francisco story looks not unlike the 1970s TV series The Streets of San Francisco, while the 2114 sets are a combination of Blade Runner and the Matrix trilogy, and the 1849 set is a bit Master and Commander with some Amistad thrown in. The mixing of times and stories meshes with a mixing of production styles, all overlaid with a mixing of myths. As all myths are…