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Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…at this Methodist seminary will study side by side with students from the Academy of Jewish Religion in Los Angeles and the Islamic Center of Southern California. The San Diego Jewish Journal calls it “the world’s first multi-religious graduate school.” Of course, Claremont is not alone. Hartford Seminary boasts the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, the country’s oldest center of its kind. A second imam train…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…complained that the government had unjustly taken his Christian theme park away from him in 1989, after he was convicted of mail and wire fraud. But now things are looking up for Bakker. For the first time in years, he explained, “I can honestly say the vision I had fifty years ago is now. God said he’s going to restore what the cankerworm has eaten.” The evidence? Bakker is building again. His new complex in rural Missouri, called Morningside, in…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…cholarship done this summer. Meanwhile, I try to hold it together to write a 800-word piece without crying and wanting to tear my hair out about the pain of my people. I’m not writing prophetic words to you anymore. You fix this shit. I’m done carrying the cross of America, its false promises of democracy and inclusion, the documents that excluded me and called my ancestors three-fifths of a person. You figure it out. I’m about comforting Black pe…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al Women and its Impacts, which it says is “the first ever global in-depth analysis of how laws against homosexuality specifically impact lesbians and bisexual women.” In addition to and linked with the generalised gender-based discrimination they face as women, lesbians and bisexual women are affected by the societal norms and expectations of compulsory heterosexuality. Countries that criminalise LGBT people tend to retain these (in most cases, i…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…We all owe Rev. Barber a debt of gratitude, both for his leadership in the field and for this precious book, The Third Reconstruction. See here for Peter Laarman’s interview with Rev. William Barber, and here for the full range of responses….

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…for diagnosing some of capitalism’s deepest ironies. In Walden, an eight-paragraph critique of philanthropy follows this line, in which Thoreau suggests that there is a relevant distinction between “philanthropic enterprises” and what Schulz describes as “helping other people.” Thoreau avoided philanthropic enterprises not because he resented helping other people (there are too many examples in which he did provide help to others) but because he…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…ristian faiths, saying that “misunderstandings throughout history” have separated them, and adding that he yearns that “this separation comes to an end.” At the end of his brief video message, the pontiff declared that “the miracle of unity has begun.” “Let’s give each other a spiritual hug and let God complete the work that He has begun,” said Francis. The Trinity Foundation, the Dallas, Texas-based Christian watchdog group that monitors and inve…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…was born, I was already a teenager. She was less than two when I began my away-from-home academic career. Starting as early as fourteen through my Ph.D., my educational path separated me from my family. Out of eight siblings, I am the only one with any degrees beyond high school; three of them. Leaving home in my teens meant I would never live with my youngest sister like I had with the other siblings. By the time I started visiting my mom with m…

Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

By Sarah A. Bowen

…cats… And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity… a man or woman who do not develop the sense of fatherhood or motherhood, they are lacking something, something fundamental, something important. Think about this, please.” He struck a chord, and people did think about it. Many, like The Cut’s Mia Mercado, highlighted the irony of a childless man scolding those without children. My phone went wild with cal…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…and anything from the Bond franchise. In kill-and-banter films, the main characters team up to take out some bad guys. While killing, they flirt. Sometimes, when the combat quiets down, things will get hot and heavy, but often it’s just a lot of talk—Scarlett Johansson shooting an intergalactic invader while she chats about weekend plans with Chris Evans’ Captain America. In cadaver-and-crush films, the protagonists are detectives whose hunt for a…