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Would Obama Have Chosen a Racist for Inauguration?

By Debra W. Haffner

…more than 50 faith traditions that affirm sexual justice issues. And my heart broke a little this week when the President-elect selected the Rev. Rick Warren to offer the invocation at his inauguration. Perhaps like you, I was elated on election night and the coming days. I’ve worn a button that says 1/20/09 for a year now. I celebrated this historical victory for weeks; I still haven’t put away the November 5th New York Times front page. The Ame…

Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…very little of which is used on behalf of poor people. On the other hand, Warren Throckmorton, the evangelical psychologist who has played such a significant role in raising awareness of the evangelical world’s use of myth and falsehood to spread homophobia, had last month taken the religious right groups to task for their “mostly unfortunate and unhelpful” responses to the the SPLC. He called Kaminer’s free speech argument a “distraction” but als…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…ely you don’t really belong to it. In short, religious belief and practice are marks of identity in American society in the year of our Lord 2017. And as it happens, there is quite a bit of evidence emerging that American politics these days revolves around questions of identity, exacerbated by a growing urban-rural divide. This is what I mean when I say, faith—or the lack thereof—reflects coherent, competing worldviews. Should America be a racial…

Supernatural Drama ‘Evil’ Provides No Easy Answers to Questions of Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Evil

By Michael F. Pettinger

…m on 4chan is? The line between the human and the demonic is a fuzzy one, particularly in the case of Bouchard’s professional rival, Leland Townsend. His description of the eventual fate of a teenage boy he hopes to have tried and convicted as an adult is so monstrous and yet so utterly convincing that even hardened skeptics might ask whether possession isn’t a real possibility. Whether it’s the mysteries of technology or the inscrutable malice of…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…when they meet this week? First, improve communication. Diocesan review boards are sometimes in touch with the National Review Board, which oversees the implementation of the Charter. But there is very little information sharing between local review boards. Why not hold an annual meeting of diocesan review board chairs, conducted by the National Review Board, where participants could share best practices? In addition, bishops need to meet with th…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…bt be despised by someone like Buchanan, also alluded to the need for a separate, muscular Celtic Christianity as distinct from the conservative Irish Catholic Church, describing his native land in Ulysses as being “the servant of two masters… [the] imperial British state… [and] the holy Roman catholic and apostolic church.” More recently, as evidenced by the vibrant community at Iona, Celtic Christianity has supplied an ecumenical framework that…

Missing the Anger for the Shoes

By Hussein Rashid

…lt when men’s traditional garb does not include belts. Shoes/slippers/etc. are far more common. They are used to help “enlighten” insouciant, arrogant, oblivious, destructive, or otherwise socially maladjusted individuals. Unfortunately, there is no common experience with non-Muslims who do not have any disciplinary problems of any sort. It would not be a stretch to say a Muslim nation has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with consi…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ekend. Henderson-Espinoza was clear about the roots of this violence, and particularly the silence—from the Trump Administration and white clergy members—that continues to embolden neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and proud racists to terrorize communities, all with no notable intervention from state or city police and members of the National Guard, who were on-site for the entirety of this weekend’s planned and unplanned actions. A brief note: I sp…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…church-state separation mean. Many of the organizations and activists who are part of a coalition of church-state separation advocates have long done stellar work in raising awareness of encroachment of religion in politics and policy-making. Being able to keep the pressure on church-state separation issues during a campaign season will be the test of the movement’s political muscle. It might make Rick Santorum throw up, but that’s kind of the po…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…relationships—for which there is very little difference between those who are parents and those who aren’t—could be useful for fighting against the well-organized efforts of minority control over school libraries and curricula that right-wingers are waging across the country. On the other hand, it’s concerning that only 41% of Americans would be somewhat or very comfortable learning that a friend is transgender, while a full third are willing to…