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Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, stepped out on the Vatican loggia at 8:22 Central European Time today to be introduced to the world. In some respects, the election of Cardinal Bergoglio is a very promising sign. As an archbishop from the most populous Catholic continent on Earth, Latin America, the new Pope Francis I symbolizes a shift that has been a very long time coming, from Eurocentrism to the Church of the Global South. Not to mention his r…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…standard Arabic, but very accessibly subtitled into English, and available free on YouTube. It’s an insightful perspective into how Muslim heritage and history are celebrated by Muslims today. Rather than focus on differences (though those are interesting too), consider the common threads and approaches. Islam is a living tradition. Just as in Jewish, Christian, and other faith traditions, contemporary Muslims struggle with (the word is jihad, by…

Secularism Destigmatized

By Sarah Posner

…ish Civilization and author of the book, How to Be Secular. Berlinerblau’s central argument is that secularism has a robust history in the United States, but that it needs to “check into rehab.” As Berlinerblau told me when we discussed his book on Bloggingheads, secularism, as a social movement and political worldview, has been in a downward trajectory over recent decades in the United States. In his book, Berlinerblau offers a “12-step program”…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…fly—that both protagonists, Democratic representative Holt D. Rush and his Republican counterpart Paul Broun, are Christian. One a mild-mannered Quaker; one a fundamentalist Baptist. You guess which is which. A short hinge paragraph in Oppenheimer’s piece goes on to highlight the affirmation by Pope John Paul II that evolutionary theory is not in conflict with Roman Catholic teaching. But the heft of the article, as with so many on Darwin’s work,…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…ks that Occupy Faith has set itself are: to ally with unions and others to promote fair wages for all, especially low-wage workers to work for fair tax policy to join coalitions supporting constitutional change to get money out of politics and limit the power of corporations to participate in events and initiatives organized to promote justice and fairness to take nonviolent, direct action to the streets and halls of corporate and government p…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…ferences in recent years, which may be a signal that it is receding in its centrality from day-to-day faith practice. But it remains a part of the Mormon narrative of sacred history. 4. Mormons don’t like it when people with an agenda interrogate what it really means to be Mormon. Mormon doctrine is complex and there have been subtle shifts in emphasis over time. Recently, I heard a top Mormon historian compare doctrine to a cloud: there are some…

God Invoked by Both Sides in Rhode Island Marriage Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…th the Rhode Island Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality are also taking a visible role in the marriage equality campaign. On Tuesday, Gov. Chafee stood with members of Rhode Islanders United for Marriage at a press conference at Central Congregational Church. Chafee invoked Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and icon of religious tolerance. Rev. Gene Dyszlewski, chair of the Religious Coalition, declared that “same-sex marriage is part…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…beliefs. But in the “Global Religious Landscape” report, belief was not a central focus. The report includes but three sentences on belief in the “Religiously Unaffiliated” section. That is, it offers precious little insight into global patterns of religious belief or unbelief. The Pew report on the religiously unaffiliated in the United States does focus substantially on belief, offering a number of significant findings among Nones. I’ve discuss…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…aid ‘Yes!’ to Jesus and ‘No!’ to the powers that killed him. Those are the central truths of Easter, as I see it. To turn the question of Easter into a conflict about whether the tomb was really empty is an enormous distraction. Getting back to what you said earlier about the community creating the Bible—what would it mean if people came to think this way about this sacred text? It would be very difficult to believe in biblical inerrancy or infall…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…graces. Pride is not the root of all sin, for some LGBT folks shame is the central sin. Are there any of these sins and graces that resonate more with you and why? The Queer Christ model that I call The Hybrid Christ, both divine and human—a blend of both. For me, as a queer person of color and an Asian American who is also gay, I often feel like I’m never able to bring the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today…