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The Constitution, the Bible and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Divide

By Julie Ingersoll

…various races and ethnicities coming to the podium to take their turns at reading. Especially moving was African-American Democrat from Georgia John Lewis reading the Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” My courses have long included the idea that there i…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…the epilogue on the God-loss read to me as very pastoral. A theologian who read this book—very theistic—once she read the manuscript, she said, “You have to say something to us who hate giving up God.” And she said, “I love waking up in the morning and seeing the sun shine and the sky blue and the birds in flight and saying, ‘Thank you God,’ and you’re taking that away from me.” You write “theism promises simplicity and security and delivers neith…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…sbyterian hymn that is frequently referenced by Quiverfull supporters that reads: “Trust and Obey, for there’s no other way/ to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.” The sentiment of the hymn really sums up the role of faith in this movement—ultimately, beyond the demographic dreams of Vision Forum and the Hesses, this movement relies on women having a faith strong enough to convince them to have children they may not necessarily be able to pr…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…er through a political leader, called the Antichrist, who is then going to rule over the world for seven years. This period is called the Tribulation. Antichrist rule will lead to a series of wars, which will then culminate with Jesus coming with an army of saints and fighting the battle of Armageddon, in the literal land of Palestine. Jesus will defeat the Antichrist, vanquish evil and then establish a new kingdom. There’s been a long debate in C…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…posite in many ways. I became a Christian when I was eighteen years old by reading the Bible, and you said reading the Bible shocked the Christianity out of you. However, neither of us is indifferent to faith and that’s significant. That is a central thing for me. I have a much easier time talking to someone who believes in God (and with whom I am in total disagreement) than someone who is indifferent. You can’t talk to someone who is indifferent….

Bishop Jenky’s Last Stand

By Anthea Butler

…ause of the HHS mandate. Since Bishop Jenky did not say the priests had to read the letter aloud, one hopes that some smart priest or two will simply read the letter silently to himself in the pulpit. Bishop Jenky’s overbearing order to his parish priests smacks of hypocrisy. After all, this is the same Bishop who said that President Obama was like Hitler and Stalin. Jenky and his Bishop brethren are threatening Catholic believers; and are doing s…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…an appeal. The Family Research Council’s press release headline after the ruling read “FRC Criticizes Court Ruling, Warns against the Roe v. Wade of Same-Sex Marriage.” Talk about a thinly-disguised dog whistle. That’s one way to rally the troops. Speaking for the black church, Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Bellville Maryland, (yes, on the East Coast) and a figure on the religious right scene, weighs in from the…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…the impending end. One explained “if you boil everything down it’s really trusting the Bible. If you can’t trust the Bible, then you got nothing.” The end didn’t come in May 2011. Nothing happened in October, either. The board of Family Radio released a statement in March 2012 renouncing the practice of date setting. Camping’s teachings, they said, had been”incorrect and sinful.” The statement still defended the teaching, however, as part of God’s…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…s psychological angst about childbearing. I think it’s really important to read them instead as about the structural changes in American society—not just psychological ones. This makes them personal issues that some people are dealing with and others not. What you had in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s was a sea change in gender roles and sex lives that stretched back to the ’20s. Let me add that I think that in the post-World War II era, a male-controll…

Argentina Considers Gay Marriage Bill

By Joanna Brooks

…nning of the Proposition 8 campaign. Although billed as one element of a faith-based “Yes on 8” coalition, Mormon participation in the 2008 campaign has been viewed as decisive in the passage of the state’s same-sex marriage ban. About 750,000 Mormons live in California. The letter being read today in Argentina marks strong continuities in the Church’s articulation of its doctrines worldwide, while marking some departures in the way Church members…