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Leading UK Evangelical Comes Out for Gay Acceptance

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…and lesbians to “repentance”: “We all need a saviour in every area of our lives, including our sexuality. We all live with pain. The radical inclusiveness of the gospel means we are all welcomed. In a wonderful grace-filled process we find repentance and forgiveness and Christ commits himself through the work of the Holy Spirit to bring transformation to our lives—a life-long process.” Clifford goes on to talk about how Chalke’s concession will h…

Why Defacing Confederate Monuments is Morally Justified

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…irded by Christian theology—in order to gather a people together who would live out these “values” in their daily lives, and to tell a particular story to their children. In this sense, the common soldier statue that formerly stood in Winston-Salem, NC only made explicit what remained implicit in most Confederate monuments: “They gave us great glory; what more could they give? They left us a story, a story to live!” (The referent of “us” in this i…

Is Romney’s Foreign Policy Problem a Product of his Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont University and editor of a new volume of essays War and Peace in Our Times: Mormon Perspectives (2012). RD: How would you characterize Mormon thought on war, peace, and foreign policy? PM: There has not been a systematic body of thought. Over the past 100 years, Mormons have been all over the map from the pacifism of J. Reuben Clark to a not-very-well-thought-out ‘just war’ position held today by…

Controversial LDS Conference Talk Edited for Publication

By Joanna Brooks

…e published text of Elder Packer’s talk has been edited from the version delivered live on Sunday morning. (A full transcript showing edits is available here.) The editing of Elder Packer’s talk introduces two significant changes: 1. The Proclamation on the Family: Speaking live on Sunday morning, Elder Packer said of the Proclamation on the Family, a church statement released in 1995 that innovated theology on the essential and eternal nature of…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…rges as the macro level event that sets the stage for the emergence of the New World, which in the Eurocentric perspective is creatio ex nihilo (created out of nothing) in which the native populations and their respective cultures are the treated like the tohu va’bohu (without form and void) in Genesis 1:2 that’s in need of ordering and fashioning by the invading European Christian conquistadors. Whereas Thanksgiving’s leapfrogging of the Jamestow…

The Potentially Explosive Russian Church Intrigue Revealed by Mueller Investigation

By Katherine Kelaidis

…of its former imperial role as a servant of the State. And in a time of renewed Russian confidence and aggression abroad, the Russian Orthodox Church has become an important instrument of state power. This is a development with dangerous implications, not only for for the global Orthodox Church, but for human rights and political freedom around the world. It appears that most of the correspondences in the recent breach were related to efforts by…

Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…rtin Luther King Jr. but of march organizers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Rustin’s sense of integrity, grounded in his Quaker faith, meant that he was out about every aspect of his identity, even when it cost him. She says there’s a historical disconnect in some African Americans’ claim to exclusive use of “civil rights” language. When opponents of the movement at the time wanted to be derogatory, she says, they referred to the “Negro…

Atheists and Christians Compete to Give More

By Lauri Lebo

…page posted a response: “If r/Christianity builds a hospital in the Third world, we are going to build 10! Let the X-mas Wars and the overall battle for goodness in the world begin!” On Dec. 9, a member of the atheist group set up a fundraising page for the group Doctors Without Borders on the charitable donation site FirstGiving.com. Crymes, after encouraging members of the Christian group to donate to the atheists’ campaign, created her own Fir…

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ing character in the film, gets to be the mouthpiece for its message: “The world may or may not be a world of purpose, but it does contain a little bit of magic.” I know it’s just a romantic comedy, but I couldn’t help being a little disappointed. I guess I just don’t see what purpose and magic have to do with one another. If Sophie could really contact an unseen world of souls of the dead, it would certainly make death less final. But how would i…

Hulu’s ERA-Focused Mini-Series ‘Mrs. America’ Reveals an Ongoing Predicament of Progressive Politics

By Amy Fallas

…s. It requires moving beyond a disdain for conservative beliefs to open up new possibilities for reframing the language of progressive politics. What if the leaders of the feminist movement recognized the political potential of organized housewives? What if earlier engagement with Schlafly would have tempered the momentum of her movement? What if progressive women also leaned into their religious networks to underscore the diverse liberation tradi…