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Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ose marriage equality on religious grounds. For them, I point to a growing number of religious leaders who also understand that gays and lesbians can do a lot to “redefine” marriage in beneficial ways. Rev. Ed Bacon, who leads the 4,000 member All Saints Church in Pasadena, Calif., told Oprah Winfrey this past weekend that marriage would be “enriched” by same-sex couples. I’ve never had a straight couple come to me and say, ‘My marriage is in trou…

Religion Largely Absent in Proposition 8 Trial

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a central purpose of marriage, Cott scoffed, nothing that President George Washington, “the father of our country,” was sterile by the time of a later marriage. “Procreative ability has never been a qualification for marriage,” she testified. It was on her cross examination by Prop. 8 attorney David Thompson that Jesus made an appearance: Thompson is challenging one of Cott’s ideas that modern marriage laws are shaped now by civil law and social d…

Op-Ed: God is Green

By Ayesha Mattu

…ardian titled “Green Islam”) that contemporary Muslim scholars like George Washington University’s Seyyed Hossein Nasr have been advocating Islamic environmentalism since the 1970s while Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan has been evolving a thoughtful understanding of “spiritual ecology.” Some might say, rightly, that our green legacy has been forgotten as the race to industrialization has created environmental devastation and dead zones in more- and l…

A Note To Churches During Pride: If You’re Not LGBTQ-Affirming, Keep Your Water

By Chrissy Stroop

…e practice certainly hasn’t died out. And last month, Christopher Smith, a Washington, DC-based Jesuit scholastic* who’s fully on board with the Catholic teaching that “homogenital” acts and transgender identities are sinful, took to Twitter to suggest that Catholics should do the same thing: https://twitter.com/Chris_SmithsJ/status/1397528844748345348?s=20 Christians always have a visible presence at Pride. Seeing those who are there to represent…

Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”

By Daniel Schultz

…ture. Sometimes, though, it’s a bit more interesting. Which brings us to a Washington Post report by Caitlin Dewey: One lawmaker is citing a godly reference to justify changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) recently quoted the New Testament to question the strength of current work requirements. The biblical passage, 2 Thessalonians 3-10, was a rebuttal to one of the hearing’s expert witnesses, a rep…

Fiorina Wins Social Conservative Hearts Over Planned Parenthood… and Trump

By Sarah Posner

During last night’s debate, there was more evidence that the religious right is turning against Donald Trump, particularly because Carly Fiorina is positioning herself to be a heroine to the anti-abortion movement. Fiorina’s claim that the secretly recorded Planned Parenthood videos contain an image of a “fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain” is not q…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ker when he spoke before a conference held by the Gay Christian Network in Washington DC in 2007. At that time, it was a big deal for Jay, the son of Praise the Lord television ministers Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, to be speaking before a crowd of gays and lesbians. In fact, it was scandalous. Bakker took a lot heat for coming out in full support of those in the LGBT community seeking acceptance in their religious communities. But, Jay Bakker is us…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…to make you pay attention to Glenn Beck, and not to what he’s saying. But last weekend Glenn Beck did essentially what Jeremiah Wright did in his “God Damn America” sermon. He stood close to the spot where King stood for the historic March on Washington, calling America back to “God.” Wright did the same, criticizing the government for treating Native Americans wrongly, for many acts, but all of his criticisms in the “God Damn America” sermon res…

John Mark Reynolds: Mainline Protestants Don’t Deserve To Be On The Supreme Court

By Daniel Schultz

…he trendlines. Besides all that, I seem to remember hearing something somewhere along the line about “where two or three are gathered in my name” and God choosing what is weak to confound the strong, but nothing about church being a popularity contest. To summarize: if you actually read the numbers, they don’t back up the hypothesis that Christians are rejecting liberal traditions in favor of conservative churches, and numbers aren’t actually a me…

McCain’s Failed Final Gambit

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…yed a videotape of Rush Limbaugh’s semi-tirade about the Powell nomination last week. With hands cupping his mouth, Limbaugh actually shouted several times into the microphone: “It’s all about race, all about race!” McCain, asked to respond to that, said that he was disappointed by General Powell’s statement, but then repeated his packaged response about the five secretaries of state. Here is where being old, and tired, and not nearly maverick eno…