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

By Joanna Brooks

…to racial injustice. It’s accurate, I think, to say that I heard no single word condemning or seriously questioning American, not to mention Southern, racism from the pulpit of my family churches or that of Duke University in my childhood and youth. Nor do I think that any prior member of my family, in the major Protestant churches of North Carolina, can have heard any such word from at least the end of the Civil War till, say, the mid-1960s (and…

Theocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…known ties between the Ahmansons and Christian Reconstructionist founder Rousas John Rushdoony, the article provides yet another example of the inability of the media to take seriously Rushdoony’s impact and legacy. While most mentions of Rushdoony are followed by the simplistic and inflammatory tagline “who advocated stoning of homosexuals,” in this case the Christianity Today article allows Roberta Ahmanson to paint Rushdoony as an man who spent…

Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”

By Mychal Copeland

…are completely whole, bringing the entirety of ourselves to our spiritual lives. The need for forums to explore intersections between sexual or gender identity and religion is so great that students in the Stanford LGBTQI community eventually created a group specifically designed to encompass all faiths called “Queerituality.” Struggling in Good Faith: LGBTQI Inclusion from 13 American Religious Perspectives Mychal Copeland and D’vorah Rose, eds….

Why Can’t the Vatican Hear Women?

By Patricia Miller

…ee with the church’s position on birth control. Apparently he hasn’t had a newspaper delivered in some time or, sadly, he lacks a radio, TV or computer. He’s certain that the problem isn’t with a completely indefensible teaching that makes no sense to Catholics, it’s just that the Vatican hasn’t explained it well enough. Apparently the Vatican can’t comprehend it when Catholics don’t hear them. The horrifying reality of the cardinal’s deafness is…

Personhood Ohio Claims Bible Dictates Criminal Penalties for Abortion

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…slation—in which what happens to the fetus is translated as a “premature delivery,” presumably resulting in a live birth—but that translation is contested. Some biblical translators believe it is more truly rendered “a miscarriage.” (The bit about “no lasting harm follows to the mother or the child” is actually an interpretation on the part of those who claim that the Bible is clear.) To the best of my knowledge—and I am no Hebrew Bible scholar—th…

Homeschooling and American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…about Phillips here, here and here. Christian Reconstructionist founder Rousas John Rushudoony is often called the father of the Christian homeschooling movement and convention lectures are frequently informed by Reconstructionist readings of the bible, in which the Old and New Testaments are a continuous narrative, and in which Biblical Law provides the basis for understanding our obligation to obedience, the exercise of dominion, and the purpos…

Glenn Beck’s History “Professor” David Barton On Racism and the Three-Fifths Rule

By Julie Ingersoll

…n Beck’s recent promotion of it, I discovered that he is the source—almost word for word—of the material contained in Kebreau’s presentation. Barton’s work has been a staple in Christian schools and among Christian homeschoolers for a generation now but thanks to Beck’s “Founders’ Fridays,” “university,” and upcoming rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Barton’s audience is expanding. Barton accuses historians of hiding the truth about slavery and racis…

Occupy Judaism: A “Turning Point” in American Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…vil rights, and Arthur Waskow created a Freedom Seder, and Catholic priests and nuns were instrumental in anti-war agitation, their actions propelled by a fervent religiosity and expressed in liturgical terms.” So far word of Occupy Judaism has spread by word of mouth and by social media. Sieradski says people responded to the Kol Nidre service with statements like “this was the most meaningful Jewish experience of my life.”…

How Did the Buddha Become a Medieval Saint?

By Peter Manseau

…tian saint known as Josaphat began to circulate among monastic orders in Jerusalem, and later fanned out to all corners of Christendom. According to the tales told about him, which soon were translated into a dozen languages, Josaphat was the son of an Indian king but had renounced his wealth and royal status for the religious life. When the life story of the Buddha, also known as Prince Siddhartha Gautama, traveled to Europe through the writings…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…I believe that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible verbally inspired Word of God. I believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the great news that any sinner who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved.” A pastor who instructs a wife to submit to her abusive husband—as Patterson did—is therefore not truly following complementarian theology. Any abuse justified by complementarianism, in Mohler’s eyes, is not true complementarianism an…