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The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…be permitted to remain in fellowship with the Convention. Pleased with themselves, SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd told the delegates that their proclamation provided “a clear signal not only about what we believe about sexual abuse, but we also stand against all ethnic discrimination in the United States and around the world.” One would think that such a declaration would taste sweet as honey in the mouths of those who have lived a…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…chetta is under investigation for untoward sexual behavior including naked selfies and improper relations with seminarians. He was allegedly reported to Rome in 2015 and 2017, but he quietly left his diocese in Oran, Argentina. A highly placed Argentine colleague in Rome named Francis gave him a job in the Vatican’s financial office, where perhaps he was a colleague of the aforementioned Cardinal George Pell. I quiver at the thought of those offic…

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

…any evidence of personnel sending sexual material about children electronically and any evidence that church officials reassigned suspected predators or used church resources to further or conceal such conduct. David Hickton, who was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2017, told CNN’s Daniel Burke that this suggests the prosecutors could be planning a racketeering case against Church leaders: “Human trafficking, c…

Atheists Miss Another #MeToo Moment

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…vement atheism.” Thomas, along with three other black women atheists and myself, was recently featured in The Humanist magazine’s July-August cover story “Five Fierce Humanists.” The cover was the first of its kind from an atheist or humanist publication. Our commentaries highlighted the lack of visibility of people of color in movement atheism and the racist power vacuum in atheist/skeptic/secular humanist leadership hierarchies. Movement atheism…

Presbyterians to Propose Historic Resolution for Religious Freedom and Against LGBTQ Discrimination

By Frederick Clarkson

…rump administration has sought, in the name of religious freedom, to drastically reduce the civil rights protections accorded LGBTQ people and women’s access to reproductive health care. It also comes at a time (as RD reported in April) when the Christian Right is promoting a sweeping legislative agenda in the states under the rubric of religious freedom. This agenda seeks to advance Christian nationalism in public life and carve out religious exe…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…ary moment the word “angel” hasn’t fared well among those who describe themselves as sophisticates or intellectuals. To many, angels don’t simply conjure superstitious beliefs, but embarrassing superstitious beliefs. Faith in God doesn’t quite raise as much opprobrium, if only because such beliefs may be recast in more intellectually sophisticated philosophical arrangements. But for those who affirm that they’re beyond such things, angels would se…

Trump with back to camera stands before a frenzied crowd with raised fist.

With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…toric and its impact on his followers carefully since 2015, I have found myself, too often, responding to Trump’s latest hateful outburst with a demoralized shrug. Back in early 2016, I was keeping a list. It soon became unwieldy and impossible to keep up. Over the last eight years, the sheer volume has made us, collectively, comfortably numb. But Trump’s most recent comments should jar us back to our senses. They signal something new, even for Tr…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…f that cause. These are as much the technologies of war as the weapons themselves. At least since Carl von Clausewitz first spoke of the “fog of war” (an inevitable unknowing that reigns over every battlefield), the challenge of warfare has been to lend order to chaos. There is a war within every war, one pitting the ballet of orderly abstractions against the scrambling movements of armed and terrified human beings. Upon these abstractions hangs a…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…ic movement today. And yet, since October 7, a micro-community of what I’m calling “Bronze Age Zionists” has emerged with greater visibility on sites like Twitter and Telegram, Discord and TikTok, determined to put a Jewish, and militant Zionist spin on the ‘dissident Right’ (formerly known as the alt-right). A typical avatar features a Groyper frog decked out in an Israeli flag hoodie, and holding a rifle, accompanied by a quote attributed to Zio…

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…Center, headlining the Jewish Book Fest at its sold-out opening event. Basically it was the usual Jewish Bay Area crowd, coming out in droves for Crumb, who had apparently become an honorary member of the tribe by illustrating that tribal book of ours, Genesis; no doubt a few of them were just now being introduced to Crumb, through his freshly-minted biblical pedigree. But there were some hipsters standing in line to buy a copy ($60 for the autogr…