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Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…graces. Pride is not the root of all sin, for some LGBT folks shame is the central sin. Are there any of these sins and graces that resonate more with you and why? The Queer Christ model that I call The Hybrid Christ, both divine and human—a blend of both. For me, as a queer person of color and an Asian American who is also gay, I often feel like I’m never able to bring the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…not serve anyone’s interests. … In my tradition, Christianity, one of the central theological claims is that God extends love and mercy graciously—i.e., from a space of vulnerability, from a space where being wounded and hurt and misunderstood is always a risk. As we worked—and worked hard—through the course of the week, as we made mistakes, as we learned from each other, as we forged relationships, genuine relationships, by naming and confrontin…

Egypt Protests Upset Assumptions About the
Arab World

By Sarah Eltantawi

…their most hopeful supporters. Reports from the scenes in Tahrir square in central Cairo describe a level of cooperation unseen in recent memory; people share their water, bring each other blankets, hold hands to ward off security forces and face down tanks in a scene widely-regarded as Egypt’s Tiananmen Square moment. These protests are nonsectarian and do not hew to established ideologies, disproving yet another common assumption in political sc…

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…ligion is just like everything else. In the 2001 Good News Club v. Milford Central School decision, for example, the Court decided that once a public school has opened up its facilities for use by pretty much any outside group, it cannot exclude services of worship merely because they are religious in nature. In his majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that “it is quixotic to attempt a distinction between religious viewpoints and relig…

Double Helix: Pro-Choice, Pro-Human, Pro-God

By Arri Eisen

…bing. Hunt writes about clergy who dared to encourage thinking beyond that promoted by the Church who were given the choice of retraction or dismissal from their orders. Science also has lent insight (and contributed its share of screaming and yelling) to the abortion issue. Could science and religion actually think about abortion synergistically rather than antagonistically? An unusual idea, but let’s think about it. As an example, let’s take one…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…hts heroes like King and Heschel respected the unions and understood their central political importance despite the strong taint of white racism within craft unionism. They and other religious figures helped progressive unionists begin to turn this racist legacy around to the point that the labor movement eventually became the most racially diverse major institution in American life. Why the Arm’s-Length Relationship? Explaining why most of Americ…

Bibi’s Bad History

By Shaul Magid

…ter its appetite for aggression knows no bounds.” This, he claims, “is the central lesson the 20th century,” yet he conveniently forgets that the 20th century saw the beginning and end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. When Khrushchev acted on his “global ambition” by sending warheads to Cuba, Kennedy confronted him. Khrushchev relented, which was arguably the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In other words, the lesson of the 20th centur…

Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…x marriage, in his book. _______ Candace Chellew-Hodge: In this book, your central theme is what you call the “Christian love ethic.” What do you mean by that? Eric Reitan: There’s more than one way to approach Christian ethics but one important way is to see the love command as a fundamental moral principal, to see allegiance to the love command as the starting point of ethical reflection. What I mean by the love ethic is an ethic which takes the…

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…ther so-called “common ground” initiatives on abortion. In the interest of promoting the passage of a health care reform bill, pro-reform faith groups had months ago agreed to disagree on the abortion funding question. That decision undermined their ability to use the force and authority of a faith coalition to lobby against the Stupak amendment in the final hours of legislative negotiations. The result: a gaping opening for anti-choice forces to…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…aimed at a broader audience. It’s a story full of human drama. Many of the central characters—Jim and Tammy Bakker, Richard Dortch, David Taggart, John Wesley Fletcher, and of course Jessica Hahn—seem almost too improbable for a novel. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? All of the above! The story ranges from sincere faith to fraud, secret affairs, and the allure of television cameras. I interviewed dozens of peo…