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Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…ir workplace comrades to make things better. Nowhere more so than in these United States. There is also some status anxiety at play, and it too has deep historical and sociological roots. Which is to say, the more that Catholic leaders like New York’s legendary John Cardinal Hughes (“Dagger John”) would side with immigrant workers and with unions, the more Protestant leaders would elevate their noses and side even more strongly with the bosses. Th…

UK Christian Mag Argues for “Separate but Equal” Unions

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…– gays and lesbians may have a “civil partnership” but so far, here in the United States at least, they are not treated equally thanks to the federal restrictions of the Defense of Marriage Act. But, even if DOMA were repealed and all the benefits were the same reserving one word for heterosexuals and another word for gays and lesbians continues to make the distinction that one is “better” and one is “less than” the other. If they truly are the sa…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today or gay today? In the LGBT community, even where I feel really safe, I rarely hear anything that affirms my cultural background or the racism of notions of beauty in the community. Singularity is the sin that resonates with me—forcing people to choose one thing over another in terms of our identities. Hybridity, like an apple-pear blend, gets to the notion that we can…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…ho claimed the right to re-name the human beings they believed they owned. Today, white Christian missionaries retain power over representations of African civilizations, often influencing the African and Caribbean sheep among their flocks to condemn ancient African religions and customs. Long after the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean and the United States, Mr. Robertson and others in his camp can’t seem to restrain themselves from trying to…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…k the capital of Portugal on November 1, 1755, All Saints’ Day. Scientists today speculate that it probably registered as a nine on the Richter scale. It devastated the population. Estimates of the number of people killed range from 10,000 to 100,000. At the time the quake struck, worshipers filled the churches honoring their dead. The churches, the worshippers, and the city around them were effectively destroyed. Not long after the major quake hi…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…ic legacy, voices such as these cannot be found among the Mormon hierarchy today. After the 2008 crash, the Mormon Conference focused on economic issues, but narrowly, stressing individual thrift and endurance rather than taking on socioeconomic structures or public policy. I had assumed that the silence on the part of today’s Mormon leadership was due to ignorance. It had gotten out of touch. Mormon Leaks has disabused me of that assumption. Elde…

Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

…th a battle axe” and opined that such militant Christians are again needed today. Contemporary “outlaw archaeologists” continue to draw new narratives from the Rune Stone using such techniques as dowsing rods for divining hidden codes within the runes. Some of these new narratives describe large settlements of Christian Vikings who lived in Minnesota for centuries following Leif Eriksson’s arrival in Vinland. There is a ready market for such wild…

NPR Largely Misses Critical Distinction on Religious Freedom vs. LGBTQ Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…central tenets of American culture. But as we have documented here at RD, today’s “religious freedom fighters” are waging a very different battle than did this nation’s Founders when they considered the concept of freedom of religion important enough to be included in the very first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The confusion begins to mount when Gjelten begins to discuss real-world examples. He writes: If a football coach is not allowed to…

New Report: Young People Leaving Church for Science

By Paul Wallace

…h school in 1986). The science-religion debate is certainly more polarized today than it was in, say, 1978. I know that anti-science runs amok in churches today. I read about it every day. But because the churches I’ve attended have been neither conservative nor reactionary, and because I’ve spent the large majority of my adult years on university campuses, I don’t have any direct exposure to life in anti-science congregations. Have any of you lef…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…. Most notable is Babette’s Feast. But her theology is for another moment. Today, Karen and its surrounding area is filled with shops, schools, and wildlife conservation areas. Kenya’s first national park is around the corner. My strange assembly of visitors from all over the world now gathers at the Elephant Orphanage and nursery in Nairobi National Park. The internationally renowned orphanage, associated with The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust a…