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Going Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’ in Arizona

By Daniel Schultz

…y is totally bonkers. As reported by the local Fox television affiliate in Phoenix, eight traditionalist churches in the suburb of Fountain Hills, Ariz., have combined forces to work against “Progressive Christianity” and its beliefs. There’s only one problem: literally just down the street from one of the conservative churches, there’s a self-described “progressive Christian” congregation, Fountains United Methodist Church. Fountains’ pastor, the…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…ise of Her is probably familiar to you. A gloomy, introverted guy (Joaquin Phoenix) in the middle of a divorce gets a new intelligent operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) after seeing an ad for it on his way home from his job (penning personalized handwritten letters). Samantha, as the OS names herself, is charming and naïve about the “real world”—a kind of digital Annie Hall—but she’s great at both organizing Theodore’s life and making…

Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…is resolution sparked at the conservative denomination’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona this week. “I thought it would be a no-brainer, I thought it would be a slam-dunk,” the Rev. Dwight McKissic told Roland Martin on Friday’s episode of One News Now (watch the full interview below). “I thought they had turned a corner, at least in the sense of being able to intellectually, theoretically, biblically, affirm what the Bible says, that one God c…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…was 11 weeks pregnant by permitting an abortion in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. I want to clarify a few basic issues lest the move to focus finally on Catholic women backfire inadvertently. While Maureen Dowd wants a nun for Pope, and Nicholas Kristof extols the virtues of “lowly nuns” and all who work for justice, I worry that a lack of nuance can replicate the dynamics of patriarchy only with a few women religious in charge—or held responsib…

Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…shes of Mt. Carmel, the largest forest fire in Israel’s history, a strange phoenix is rising: a clash of civilizations. It’s not between Israelis and Arabs, nor between Jews and Muslims. It’s a clash between two worldviews. Let’s oversimplify, for convenience, and call them “ancient” and “modern.” The clash has flared up around the question of why the fire started. The moderns blame people and a drought-parched landscape. A couple of negligent kid…

Bishops go from Single-Issue Voting to Double-Issue

By Kate Childs Graham

…an, director of the diocesan Office of Marriage and Respect Life Issues in Phoenix, Arizona commented on the Arizona bishops’ backing of Proposition 102: “This tinkering with the legal meaning of marriage is a social experiment which will weaken marriage further and will contribute to its disappearance. If it’s not about one man and one woman raising a family and having a stable relationship in which to raise a family, then ultimately, it is about…

Will bin Laden’s Death Finally Quell Obama Conspiracy Theories?

By Anthea Butler

…ission accomplished speech” by President Bush could not, Obama rose like a phoenix from the ashes of a week in which he had to release the long-form of his birth certificate to silence the “carnival barker” Donald Trump and other so called patriot birthers. The important takeaway for religionists is that Obama squarely placed bin Laden outside of the camp of traditional Islam. Obama said: We must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…y managed by the U.S. federal government as Tonto National Forest, east of Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2014, a proposed copper mine has threatened to permanently alter the area through an underground mining technique that would cause the earth to sink—up to 1,115 feet deep and almost 2 miles across. Apache Stronghold, a grassroots organization devoted to defending sacred sites, has challenged the proposed mining plan in court, arguing that destroying…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…he exclusion of women from the ordained clergy has historically kept their numbers small.) Deriving from the ancient Egyptian monastic tradition (the oldest in the Christian world), it’s common practice for pious Orthodox Christians to take a spiritual father, a man to whom they not only offer their confession but also seek out for guidance, both spiritual and temporal. These relationships ideally (and frequently in practice) endure over decades a…

What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?

By Spencer Dew

…for actual stunt raids. A celebrity self-promoter, obsessed with his poll numbers, his brand (all that was iconic at his “in-tents” jail—exposure to the elements, pink underwear, garbage food paired with televisions locked to the Food Network—was iconic of him), his solipsism was on display in a pre-interview clip from CNN where he fusses about his makeup and complains that he can’t even go out for pizza in New York without protestors complicatin…