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Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…eyard denomination) and Charles Kraft, began there to hone his ideas about spiritual mapping, spiritual warfare, and power encounters. Leaving the seminary in the early 1990s to establish a ministry in Colorado Springs, Wagner began to build his empire, founding the NAR in 2001. The 21st century, for Wagner, is the beginning of the “Second Apostolic Age.” Those in the NAR believe that in order to bring about the coming of Christ, Apostles must be…

Are Creationist Beliefs Too Extreme for Creationists?

By Paul Wallace

…o be different, and they are, but down deep their roots converge. The same spirit of curiosity that animated Newton, animated Darwin. It is this spirit of inquiry that is at issue, not certain showpieces of scientific end-product. But it is unthinkable for Ham or the Discovery Institute to publicly reject “the spirit of inquiry,” so they focus — as they do so often — on externals, and wind up accepting only self-selected pieces of science. They ar…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…isagreement and dissent, and most importantly, it created an atmosphere of spiritual and social flexibility essential to meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century. The reception of the reforms was quite uneven across the country, and so we need to be careful in describing what actually occurred. Anything you had to leave out? I visited every parish I discussed in the book, beginning with my great grandparents’ ancestral villages in German…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…vanizing role that mass singings of “We Shall Overcome” and other reworked spirituals played in the public struggle for Civil Rights redefined black gospel music in the popular imagination as not simply the sacred song of black churches but the soundtrack for democracy’s slow but steady march toward greater freedom and equality in the modern era. In the process, black gospel was effectively nationalized as an American cultural resource. Many stars…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…phen Brady, who was awarded the Order of Australia in January for his long service to the country, offered his resignation this week after a flap over Brady’s partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, but it was not accepted. According to the Herald-Sun, Ambassador Brady was waiting with Peter Stephens, his partner of 32 years, (photo right) on the tarmac of a Paris airport for the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, when a protocol offic…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…of power derived from the models offered by the world, or is it rooted in service?” (par. 57). It’s as if the Church were without power struggles and as if no social models were rooted in service. Wrong on both counts. A path to women deacons is hinted at here but not women priests. I’m reminded that Hansel left a few breadcrumbs but that he and Gretel were foiled by hungry birds. So it goes. Breadcrumbing works like other forms of intermittent r…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…hey still cared for me. And I can’t tell you how many times I remember the phone call she made and the letter he sent. To the rest of you, those I potlucked with, laughed with, held your hands, loved your babies, went to your weddings, your sickbeds, your moments of crisis: Where are you? Why have you let me go to what you believe to be perdition? Are you just too busy? Did I never matter that much? Have I fooled myself believing we were bonded fo…

American Haggadah

By Daniel Schultz

…measure, the Jewish retelling of the Jews’ own foundational story doesn’t skip the less-than-flattering parts. The whole Exodus narrative is remarkably harsh for a national myth. If only Americans could be so honest and so faithful in telling their history. P.S.: I don’t think any of these guys were Jews, but here’s a perfect song for the proposed Haggadah: Rock ’em back, Sonic! PPS: the editors inform me that Rob Tyner and Wayne Kramer were in f…

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…any millennial black activists, one’s blackness is not divorced from one’s spirituality. And ultimately, for many, spirituality comes second. For many, it was not that the family of Dylann Roof’s victims actually forgave, it was how immediately they did so. The conversation expanded beyond the Charleston murders to the long history of forgiveness in the black American experience as a response to crimes against humanity. Forgiveness, to the black a…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…ogy, with the way of the creation, but I think for this first entry I will skip the theology and instead go for the more politically expedient. In today’s anthropology, Muslim women participate at every level of society and in every role, somewhere. In addition, in every Muslim context, minority or majority, in every class from the very poor or basic to the very wealthy and affluent, Muslim women are active in the promotion of their own well being…