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GOP Chair Reince Priebus: “There’s only one sovereign God”

By Daniel Schultz

…o let Brody know it wasn’t like it sounded: “I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’” Reince Priebus told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network Monday. “I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.” Brody pushed for reassurance that the GOP wasn’t going to give up on its social platform, and got this in response: “Our p…

Losing Their ‘Religion’

By Rachel Gordan

…th many other segments of the wider American culture Jews seem to find the word “religion” unappealing. This isn’t new. For much of history, “religion” in America has meant Christianity, and until the latter half of the 20th century the most salient part of Christianity, for most Jews, was its anti-semitism. And yet, at times—partly out of a love for America—Jews in this country have made a real effort to “do religion.” It’s been a complicated thr…

Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

By John Blevins

…culty or senior staff are welcomed if they agree to abide by the unwritten rules of the glass closet: feel free to speak about LGBT inclusion as a matter of justice but don’t self-identify or risk losing your position. It creates an environment in which other faculty and staff offer private affirmations behind closed doors but keep their distance when conflict arises. In honoring Eddie Fox, Candler’s leadership gave formal institutional assent to…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…s life as a gift from his friends—companions who continue to help him find words to trust. “Memory pulls us forward,” says Ruth in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, “so prophecy is only brilliant memory.” When I think of his pastoral theology, I recall an image he’s often made use of in his preaching: I think of someone becoming all fire. Isaac ended a sermon in 2010 with a fourth-century story of two monks in the Egyptian desert—a crazy story ab…

What’s a Faith-Healing Congregation to Do When Measles Hits?

By Rob Shryock

…hat you can be cured of almost any ailment by a ritual recitation of God’s word. He claimed in Sunday’s sermon that people could, “take authority over their bodies” by using “words of dominion,” saying that, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” In context, Pearsons’s sermon comes off as an aggressive reaffirmation of EMIC’s ideology of faith healing in light of all the bad press. George Pearsons himself announced that his sermon had…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…directly into the nationalist Christian supremacism that’s fueling the destruction of American democracy, such as it was? Or that words like “regular,” “real,” and “normal,” in this context are often code for “conservative white Christians”? Might Merritt have devoted a thought or two to the possibility that American criticism of “thoughts and prayers” responses to real-world problems have everything to do with the fact that right-wing Christians—…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ity School. Anyway, there we were. 2003. Pregnant. Startled to be so. In a new city. Newly married. This posed some… difficulties. I’m about to say two things that it’s very hard for some people to understand; but indeed, they manage to both be true at the very same time. Thing one: I love my oldest son, and his younger brother, so much that of course I’d take any bullet, any day, to save them. I would certainly never wish that they hadn’t been bo…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…company” and “to walk with.” To be in solidarity means to make another’s struggle for justice, peace, and equality your struggle. People who are exploited, who see their children go to bed hungry and die before their time, cry out for justice and organize in solidarity with each other. As a result, many were killed and imprisoned. During my fifth year I was among the many arrested by the military and I was forced to leave the country. I then turne…

The Gospel According to
Paul Ryan

By Daniel C. Maguire

…after pope, and, of course, his enabler friend Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, theologian Ryan shows that if you squeeze Catholic social teaching in just the right way, out comes the Ryan federal budget plan for 2012, “The Path to Prosperity.” That budget plan, which among other things, would scuttle Medicare and unleash the dogs of greed, is now not just sound, but holy. Fortunately Ryan’s sermon was not written in a college theology exam…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…Reverend Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki, president of the Buddhist Council of New York. “It’s used to improve business. So the purpose is fundamentally different.” Do these differences matter? Things change. In fact, there may be no better two-word summary of Buddhist thought and history than that. “Buddhism has gone through many, many transformations from India to China to Japan,” said David McMahan, a scholar of Buddhism at Franklin and Marshall Co…