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Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ate, an ancient institution revived by Vatican II. In 2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied th…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…Convention isn’t really interested in a true transformation. The Faustian bargain made for the sake of Supreme Court appointments trumps any assertions about ever being genuinely committed to racial or gender justice. Regardless of politically correct pronouncements made during the annual conference, their lifestyle and political viewpoints continue to deny significant parts of the Jesus in whom they claim to believe. One can even argue that, due…

The Man Who Hoarded 17,000 Bottles of Sanitizer Did Nothing Wrong ― And That’s the Problem

By Daniel Schultz

…on. Anyone who’s ever spent time on a travel site hunting for a bargain airfare can tell you about how prices mysteriously start to rise once the algorithms sniff out the interest in the Keokuk-Ft. Wayne route. Likewise, the midwestern home improvement chain Menards applied more or less the same logic as Colvin and wound up being accused by the Michigan Attorney General of doubling prices on crucial items like bleach and face masks. I shed no tear…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…mustache and Rupert Pupkin grin to the cheesy gold text superimposed over bargain-basement CGI clouds and sunshine to evoke some kind of glossy faith implies a rip-off of the tawdriest sort, the kind of remainder-bin book most people sensibly buy for kindling or building walls with. But there’s Lindell nattering away about nearly getting killed over a gambling debt in Mexico as though it were the highlight of his career. Is it a rags-to-riches sa…

Southern Baptist Leader Al Mohler Addresses Past Racist Comments; But the Past Isn’t the Problem

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…examined racist biases with God’s will, always seeking to mask their complicity as essentially a casualty of political correctness. When Mohler dismisses his leadership of the white-only secret society while a student at SBTS, as “basically a dinner club,” he continues to gaslight those of us who were on campus and yet excluded. I remember Dodeka. What I recall is that in spite of my intellect, I had a better chance of becoming a member of the Cou…

Why Creationists Aren’t Wrong

By Davidson Loehr

…our modern world. In Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ “Five stages of grief” model, bargaining is the last stop before falling off the cliff of deeply held beliefs that are no longer tenable. We’ll make almost any bargain to avoid the desperation of having no story to make sense of our lives, losses, and loves. There is also a deeper dimension—ancient, poignant, and now sad—to the denial of evolution. Religious thinkers in the Western Bible-based religio…

How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?

By Shaul Magid

…im have always supported political candidates and voted in relatively high numbers, most of the advocacy was primarily transactional; they supported candidates they thought could maximize their resources. In 2020, impromptu pro-Trump rallies in Flatbush and Boro Park, a pair of Brooklyn neighborhoods with high numbers of Orthodox Jews, illustrates a new kind of political populism seldom seen in communities that often prefer to stay out of the spot…

The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story

By Peter Laarman

…ble of producing a sufficient quantum of public justice. Are they right? A bargain-priced plastic surgeon might want to convince us that removing a large carbuncle will render our face entirely beautiful, but can that kind of pitch really be trusted? Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that Trump is driven out in 2020 and that a Democrat in the mold of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama takes over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Will all of the abominatio…

Satanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives

By Joseph Laycock

…onservative websites have condemned the event, showering it with free publicity. Greaves’ critics demonstrate what Jason Bivins calls “the erotics of fear.” While claiming to be shocked by the black mass, it appears to excite them and potentially confirms their claims about extraordinary evil. Despite Greaves statement that he doesn’t believe in the supernatural and that the black mass is only a re-enactment, Father Landry stated the black mass is…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…e pro-queer side. Pollster/strategy consultant Amy Simon went before large numbers of liberal Christian leaders in battleground states to say, in effect, “Please don’t duck what your own religion has to say about this. Try behaving like Jesus for once.” And Simon was only one of many out there, working hard and bringing in sheaves of religious voters for equal rights. It seems to have worked. 8. Body of this Death It wasn’t just gay bodies that go…