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Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”

By Mychal Copeland

…religious institutions, families, and cultural or ethnic communities. The newly released book I co-edited, Struggling in Good Faith: LGBTQI Inclusion from 13 American Religious Perspectives, addresses the intersections between LGBTQI identities and religion beyond the campus. This multifaith sourcebook for students, campus professionals, families, religious institutions, and medical professionals spans the American religious landscape. Chapter co…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…eamble to the U.S. Constitution and why even President Obama won’t use the word “poor” when it’s one of the most prominent words and themes in the Bible. I am always reminded of the Book of James when I observe the theory and theology of Rev. Barber: The biblical writer and Rev. Barber both insist that a vital Christian faith propels us into the struggle for basic justice, that faith without redemptive struggle is dead. We all owe Rev. Barber a de…

“Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011

By Joanna Brooks

…have, as a desperate warrant for their convictions, those passages of the New Testament that urge the subservience of slaves to their masters). Then in the South, and widely elsewhere, many churches effectively ignored the plight of the poor, as they go on doing today—as I still do, socketed as I am in the deluxe surroundings and tended by warmhearted and reliable family and friends. Then, more slowly, I grew aware that the churches’ intolerance…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…g congregations are increasingly normative in Catholic churches. No wonder new, community-based models of church and new job descriptions for ministers are replacing the old. In Mercy circles, “integrity of word and deed” is a high value. Think of that in light of the double crossing by Pio Laghi and the insulting request by the Vatican that Theresa “clarify” (i.e., walk back) her statement on ordination. Not likely, gentlemen, and not done. There…

The Top Five Pope Francis Quotes of 2015

By Patricia Miller

…the entire wall-building, immigrant-rejecting, benefit-cutting Republican worldview. #2 “Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits—but no.” Pope Francis’ off-the-cuff remark that good Catholics don’t have to breed like bunnies on his way home from the Philippines was widely hailed as another “stunner” from the pontiff. But the Catholic Church as taught since the 1950s that it’s accepta…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…rian Christians over the last few election cycles aren’t enough to get The New York Times or The Atlantic to question the conflation of “Christian” with “good,” or to grasp that authoritarian Christians cannot be reached at scale by selectively quoting the Bible at them, I don’t know what will. I do, however, have a modest proposal that might help push our discourse about Christianity and power in a more honest direction were enough of us to get o…

“Progressive” Religion or Just Religion?

By Brie Loskota

…ng to gauge where Muslims fall in a stark “us vs. them” perspective on the world. This conceptual polarization presents a number of problems for religious groups and their potential for political impact. Using modifiers to characterize spiritual commitments—whether “progressive” Christianity (for example) or “moderate” Islam— promotes the idea that groups with progressive or moderate values are outliers within their own traditions. And, conversely…

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

…ook About It.” (Those are his actual words). To put it in perspective, the word “dick” appears 23 times in the slightly more than 200 pages that makes up the meat of Fighting God. The word “brainwash” and its variants appear 36 times, while the “American Way” appears 13. This is not a sophisticated book. Which was why I was so surprised to see Fighting God receive substantial endorsements from the New Atheist establishment. “How refreshing it is t…

I Am Better than Him

By Amina Wadud

…reated from (an atom of) dirt.” I am better than him is istikbar. And this word occurs 40 OR 50 TIMES through out the Qur’an in various forms, not just about Satan but also and mostly about human beings and their arrogance. As happens in the Satan story, istikbar is the cause of disobedience to God. It is the cause of failure to worship God, as one. It is the cause of rejection of the Prophets. It is the cause of disregarding the message of revela…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…n their home city of Cuernavaca, Morelos. Javier Sicilia received the heartbreaking news while attending a conference in the Philippines. He recalls chain-smoking a pack of cigarettes after hearing the report, unsure of his next move. On returning to Mexico, Sicilia laid his son to rest. At the memorial he read a poem: The world is not worthy of words they have been suffocated from the inside as they suffocated you, as they tore apart your lungs……