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Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today

By Kaya Oakes

…ide? I can say what we should not do. What I think should be avoided is to look for a religious community in terms of a parish that looks like you. This is something that happens worldwide, but especially in the U.S.A. We tend to live close to people who look like us, the same ethnicity, income level. The ultimate version is the Benedict Option and all these options that try to create a Catholic community that’s homogenous and aligned on all possi…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…nner of casualties along the way. Twenty-first century Americans no longer look at maps of the world and see large swaths of heathens. And yet they do continue to look at the world and clump vastly different people and places together under the rubrics of the “Third World” and “developing countries.” The history of the “heathen world”—which I write about more in my forthcoming book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History—helps to explain h…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…Nestor Kirchner (former president of Argentina hankering to run again), to look liberal enough to be reelected in 2011. That may well be, but it misses an important religious angle; namely, that the Roman Catholic Church was defeated as soundly as the political opposition on this one. Maybe it is a sign of things to come in Latin America—on abortion, for example—and around the world as the institutional church fritters away its symbolic capital. I…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…ll tell you that these particular politicians (including Governor McCrory) look nothing like the sensible Republicans of the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s populati…

Progressive Evangelical Attacks AARP, Social Security

By Peter Laarman

…ion is what makes what is really an issue of intra-generational inequality look like an issue of inter-generational inequality. 3. We pay way too much for health care not because our seniors get better care, but because our doctors, drug companies, medical supply companies, and other providers get twice as much money as their counterparts in other countries. To claim that seniors are somehow benefiting because their specialists are getting paid $4…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ut rather hopeful for its continued march toward greater inclusion. “If we look at the future of the church, and we look at the generations coming up; the generations coming up will not tolerate a closet,” she explained, a hint of excitement in her voice. “[This generation] will not tolerate people being pushed to the margins, because they have encountered a God who says, ‘come to me, all of you—there is room for everybody.’ And they’ve seen the v…

Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination

By Michael J. Altman

…, desire, and church camp over at Killing the Buddha. While Salon offers a look at a Nevada megachurch that continues its support of those promoting the Ugandan “kill the gays” bill. Is the Church of England going to get its first gay Bishop? Maybe. Spain is getting its first LBGT church. The Metropolitan Community Churches will open a congregation in Madrid later this year and will be the first Spanish church to celebrate same-sex marriages. Spai…

In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes Less Is More

By Richard Flory

…, Chicago, or any other large metropolitan area, that are attracting large numbers of young, college educated congregants. Yet in many cases, these churches represent the problem faced by any mass event: it is easy to attend, and equally easy to avoid deeper commitment to the life of the church. The point is that what is often missed by these large scale surveys—and the media reporting of them—is that megachurches are not the only game in town. Sm…

Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism

By Manisha Sunil

…they will immediately find information on the spiritual aspects of it and look at it,” he said. “And if they look at it, it might lead them to believe that’s something they should be involved in.” By no means are members of the religious right opposed to religion in their classrooms—for them, it’s just a matter of it being the correct religion. Earlier this month, Alabama’s Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville in fact took to the Senate floor advo…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…song, Demons by the band Imagine Dragons, remind us that we don’t have to look too hard to find the demons: I wanna hide the truth I wanna shelter you But with the beast inside There’s nowhere we can hide No matter what we breed We still are made of greed This is my kingdom come When you feel my heat Look into my eyes It’s where my demons hide Walter Wink said that in order to overcome demons you must name, unmask and engage them. So let me name…