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“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…h attributed racial variation to Biblical curses, specifically identifying African-descended peoples as heirs to curses imposed on Cain or Ham. The Book of Mormon, however, also showed that all civilizations—Nephites as well as Lamanites—were vulnerable to pride, apostasy, and collapse and capable of spiritual rededication and regeneration, regardless of skin color. The LDS Church never withheld priesthood from members of indigenous American desce…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…ians, Thanksgiving only became a national holiday following the Civil War. Central to the day are less events that happened in the 17th century than the ever-regenerative work of constructing what exactly it means to be an American. Like anything religious at its core, Thanksgiving invites skepticism as well as orthodoxy, yet that’s always been intrinsic to what makes the holiday, and the country which it embodies, so fascinating, as these pieces…

For White Christians ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ Reflects ‘Anti-White Bias’ According to New Research

By Daniel Schultz

…dom (rather than Christianity in specific). Furthermore, because arguments promoting religious freedom are perceived as carrying sublimated racial content, both Al-Kire and Pasek agree that the very same religious freedom arguments may be discounted when they’re deployed by more liberal Christians outside of that context. “It might mean a totally different thing,” Pasek says. He’s quick to point out that their research hasn’t looked at the idea, b…

Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…s less to do with a dislike of conservatism, or an unfair bias against the Republican Party, than with a fundamental moral question: If we cannot acknowledge and atone for the harm we cause as a society, how can we look in the mirror and see our own ? ‘Good-People’ math As Jamil had noted, this is one of the main questions in The Good Place’s fourth and final season, the second part of which begins on Thursday, January 9th. The Good Place is a bri…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…l attitude…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 132-3. “Once in a debate…”: Mary Lukas and Ellen Lukas, Teilhard (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1977): 237-8. “From this there follows…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Activation of Energy,” in Activation of Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 202-3. “We must recognize…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Conver…

Bishops Rile Up the Religious Right, Then and Now

By Patricia Miller

…g toward Carter anyway. But the emerging Christian Right glommed on to the newly politicized issue of abortion and didn’t let go. They used it to bring Ronald Reagan to power, resulting in cuts to anti-poverty and environmental programs and a newly militaristic nation—values diametrically opposed to Catholicism. The bishops have accomplished much the same thing today by radicalizing the Tea Party to the issue of “religious freedom.” According to t…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…the views of influential players in contemporary politics. Barton has been central to the rise of Glenn Beck’s tea party organization, the 9-12 Project and is a colleague of Florida House Candidate Dan Webster at Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles. DeMint’s money has gone to (among others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Ra…

The Unbearable Magnetism of Watching Obama Slip on a Banana Peel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he way). This president made a studied attempt to recognize reporters, and news outlets, heretofore unrecognized by the White House. And on Thursday morning, this president held a first-ever electronic town hall meeting, streamed online in real time, thereby announcing a whole new era of presidential exposure and openness. In short, this president has taken center stage. There are very real dangers to this kind of theatrical overexposure. Even FDR…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…” for the Church, Gray-Reeves argues for more of the advance work that was central to the slow success of the movement toward full inclusion of lesbians and gays. “I would love to see a resolution that suggests that we study in all of our dioceses what it means to be transgender,” she suggests. “Because if you ask the Church to go from zero to sixty on new language without presenting the challenge of studying it, and providing resources to people,…

“The War is Raging for the Heart and Soul of America”: The Values Voter Identity

By Ariana Childs Graham

…e, flavoring it with good and creating a thirst for God.” Historically the central issues for the values voters have revolved around homosexuality and same-sex marriage, family structures, parental rights, abortion, and religious liberty. However, during the Friday morning plenary session at the Summit, Lou Dobbs of CNN encouraged the values voters not to “cloister around two or three issues,” but to broaden their scope of concern. Bishop Harry Ja…