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Beyond Christianity or Creed: Religion of Realism from a Chicago Cop

By Spencer Dew

…led with a persistent sense that only a select few are able to handle the truth of the world as it is. To embrace Preib’s realism, then, “You just have to be tough enough to ride it out.” Preib is, to borrow his description of Whitman, “a tough motherfucker.” His prose has the blunt gait of an incident report, yet deeply measured, contemplative, each clean sentence clearly the work of lengthy reflection. His interest is not just in the facts, afte…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nd other distributed locales, but praying together for the miners, sharing news from their parts of the world, and, in general, witnessing and ministering to one another throughout the day. It’s hard to tell where all this might lead. Predictably, alas, few religious leaders seemed to participate in the event. Father David Pauvif, a Roman Catholic priest who ministered to the miners and their families throughout the ordeal, was swarmed by reporter…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…vernment, [this] religious revival couldn’t be timelier. Then he took his crusades worldwide. Between 1962 and 1974, Graham personally met the region’s most brutal anti-communist military rulers, including Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Ernesto Geisel of Brazil, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, and Augusto Pinochet of Chile, whom Graham praised as a “great Christian leader.” Graham wasn’t the only American preacher to wage an anti-communist spiritual f…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…s it tell us that Paine had no children?) This myth of redemptive violence runs through American history, through the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, and through the stories our children consume in books and on screens. It allows us to believe unreflectively that peace might be made through war, and that service in war elevates those who serve. The myth does not—because it cannot—integrate the realities of broken bodies and injured…

Senate Committee Votes to Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ith the state anymore after civil unions were passed but they were hardly “run out” of business. The rules of doing business with the state changed, and it was Catholic Charities that chose to not play by those rules. If Catholic Charities really cared about the children they would find a way to work with the state instead of taking their services and depriving children of good homes—whether they were gay or straight parents. If religious organiza…

The Moral Outrage of Comparing Abortion to the Holocaust

By Hara Person

…eliminate their autonomy. Unsurprising, then, that among the flood of heartbreaking stories that emerged after the Holocaust, there are indeed documented stories of Jewish women who were forced to carry their rapist captor’s babies to term. Restrictive laws that control women’s bodies are an assault on human dignity and a violation of the deeply held principles of millions of Jews and other religious people. That’s why, as a Reform rabbi, I’m a vo…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…o think that so-called “traditional marriage” is an innocent concept. Zach runs the school’s chapters of Amnesty International and Men Can Stop Rape. Sometimes he’s the only one at the meetings, despite the hours spent putting up posters and pestering his friends. Turns out those two clubs are not as popular as, say, varsity sports, or the spring musical. But Zach isn’t doing this to up the numbers. Some things are more important than being popula…

Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…yer against Satan. Pastor Perry Stone warned his audience that the coronavirus is Satan’s plan to kill old people so that socialism can rule. In March editorial, the editor of First Things magazine, R. R. Reno, argued that “Satan prefers sentimental humanists,” and asserted that Satan relies on our fear of death. Understanding the scale of the pandemic in the following weeks, Reno made a public apology where he emphasized that “events had overtake…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…and “bulldagger.” Gospel for the children is a way of life, and somehow it runs down one track and their sexual identity runs parallel. How they imbricate is a big question. That’s interesting, this question of knowledge, because what underpins almost any discussion of gayness in gospel music is the simultaneous operation of different kinds of knowledge: there’s orthodox or official knowledge (what people claim to know); privileged knowledge (a fe…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ergraduate stomach would be the gateway to the soul. The next morning, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were struck, thousands were murdered, New York City went into lockdown, and our community was sent reeling. Every generation has its shaping event and, for ours, that was an impossibly beautiful Tuesday morning. September 11 put an end to the long 1990s when, as it is nearly inconceivable to imagine today, the biggest problem in our post-…