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Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

In his latest attack on the Social Justice, Glenn Beck slams the work of James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology. On the surface, what Beck says may be appealing; Cone does make people uncomfortable. With a black man in the White House and talk of a “post-racial” America, who wants to hear about lynching, of all things? Yes, it was horrible, but haven’t we put that behind us? Aren’t people who still want to bring “that” up just trying to stir…

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

…to die. Cloning. The edges of life are also ethical fault lines, where social values clash at tectonic pressures. In a pluralistic society, it’s no surprise that these are also the sites of our most entrenched debates. This is perhaps the best context for understanding the rise of the “heaven tourism,” a genre of first-hand accounts of near-death journeys to a supernatural realm. Best-selling books including Proof of Heaven, The Boy Who Came Back…

How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter

By Beatrice Marovich

…Republican Party’s primary race is filling up with candidates crusading against “wokeness,” particularly in the American educational system. Meanwhile, here in Kentucky (where I live), a rural school district will be forced to reform its anti-discrimination policies after a federal Department of Justice investigation has uncovered “serious and widespread racial harassment” in the school system, targeting Black and multiracial students who live in…

When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful

By John Stoehr

…d afford them the same respect we ourselves would expect. If we call them liars, that might encourage them to lie even more given the outrage of being called liars. Better to check their facts, state the truth and move on in hopes that they behave in kind. This was certainly the thinking behind Frank Bruni’s latest, titled “Must We Dance on Rush Limbaugh Grave?” The Times columnist said Sunday that while the radio broadcaster, who died last week,…

The Religious Duty to Come Out

By Jay Michaelson

…e out, I was sure that doing so would spell the end of my religious life. Raised in a Conservative Jewish household, I absorbed the message that being gay (let alone acting on homosexual impulses) was about the worst thing in the world. I thought it meant I could never have a family, and could not be gay and Jewish. Ironically—tragically—accepting and celebrating my sexuality was the beginning of my religious life, not the end of it. What we call…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…Jonathan Rosenblum recounts the personal stories of clergy, activists and airport workers who mounted the first successful campaign for a $15 minimum wage in the U.S. What inspired you to write Beyond $15? I didn’t start out planning to write a book. I’m a union organizer, and organizing is part teaching—bringing forward the lessons of previous struggles into present fights. When in 2014 I began scribbling down notes that eventually morphed into…

The “Religious Freedom” Issue That May Cost the Accused Boston Bomber His Life

By Anthony Santoro

While Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have argued that potential jurors might be biased based by the recent attacks in France, or because the region was so traumatized by the 2013 marathon bombing, there may be quite another cause for concern. At the beginning of January, more than 1,200 people were summoned to the federal courthouse in Boston. These potential jurors in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s forthcoming trial were questioned in groups of 200 as the pre…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of choice. —Dave Barry I love to shop. This questionable passion led me to write a book on shopping. I will also confess, like any good Catholic, that guilt is a motivator here as well. Plagued by a consumerist culture that defines our worth and value by what we spend, yet informed by a Christian ethical vision that at…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…al argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia Sotomayo…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…r come to found this movement? What is Wagner’s background? Is he a theologian? A missionary? An entrepreneur? Anthea Butler: Yes, I was a Master’s student at Fuller working the switchboard part-time, and the number one phone call that came through went something like this: “Can you connect me to C. Peter Wagner’s Church Growth Institute? I’d like to buy some materials.” No one was happier than I was when he retired from Fuller and moved to Colo…