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Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…es that make those spots such an enduring aspect of Gen-X and early Millennial nostalgia. I may be a little over 40 and only an irregular consumer of TikTok videos, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that “He Gets Us” is hardly going to register with today’s youth. Gen Z is the least religious generation, and I’m pretty sure that this tech-savvy, culturally aware, and #VeryOnline generation is not going to be ‘won back to Christ’ by, for…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…ford 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 training program is being launched by the once all-Christian Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; its website calls it “the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration in teaching, research, ministry, and ser…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…ent from favoring a particular faith or establishing a state religion. And despite some notable outliers (cough*Joel Osteen*cough) most American clergymen don’t make much money. In 2010, while the median salary for American rabbis was about $140,000, Catholic priests averaged $25,000 and Protestant ministers $40,000. Should we begrudge them the opportunity to save a little money? To my mind, the more intriguing suit was filed by American Atheists,…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…ater from the Jordan and holy oil) promising riches and healing for anyone desperate enough to send in their money. Ewing, dubbed “God’s Ghostwriter”, routinely wrote similar garish letters for other evangelists using every trick to milk desperate people out of their money. The mailings still take in millions of dollars every month, though the group has lost its tax-exempt status several times. • A cursory search of property records show James and…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…y of women ordained as deacons is by Cipriano Vagaggini, published in Orentialia Christiana Periodica. Reportedly Pope Paul VI asked Vagaggini, in the early 1970s, about women deacons. The Catholic Church was restoring the diaconate as a permanent vocation for men, and the pope asked the logical question: could women be ordained to this sacred order as well? Vagaggini gave the long form—15,000 words—of the short answer: “yes.” But, he gave it in v…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…thus interfere with the friendly and constructive relations between non-Asian Asian states (sic). In an effort to combat the support of the American Academy of Religion, the Hindu American Foundation that had protested against Doniger’s work in 2009 published a blistering critique in the Huffington Post on the AAR. In a piece entitled “Academic Integrity: It’s What’s Missing at the AAR,” HAF co-founder and co-Director Suhag A. Shukla argues that…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…sed and discussed.” Similarly, in the conference’s keynote address, theologian Sr. Ilia Delio stressed belief as an open, dynamic, and evolving system and urged the sisters to continually renew and reconsider the role and nature of religious life (pertinent, as the majority of American sisters are elderly), focus on diversity and exploration over sameness, and continue to work for the poor and marginalized. As with Deacon who spoke on Friday, Deli…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…e often than not, able to deny that we do, as Melville warned, hover over “Descartian vortices” speaks to incredible powers of conviction. That we can so easily obscure this fragility of self and precarity of nation from our vision is testament to our civilizing illusions. Perhaps, then, it is a story suitable only for mature audiences. But if you are offering up a theory of how things are, in general, here in the West, well, then come the fuck on…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…andled child abuse cases internally rather than reporting them to BSA officials. The LDS Church confronted patterns of child sexual abuse within its own ranks in the 1990s after several high-profile child sexual abuse cases resulted in multimillion dollar payouts to victims and their families. The Mormon Alliance, a grassroots Mormon organization that monitored abuse within the Church, published a study documenting negligence on the part of local…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…f protection; (2) allow for the taking of guilty human life (since many social conservatives support the death penalty while also being opposed to abortion); and (3) contrast the innocence of the fetus with the guilt of the father. Indeed, on the last point, the amendment draws this contrast specifically: “No innocent child created through rape or incest shall be killed for the crime of his or her father.” But notice, where rape and incest are co…