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In Defense of Clerical Celibacy, From a Protestant Liberal

By Kate Blanchard

…, “It is better not to marry!” But Jesus responded that not everyone could manage this: “there are eunuchs who were born that way… and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs… and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.” (Jesus himself kindly spared some poor wife the pain of widowhood, poverty, and heartbreak.) The apostle Paul echoed this idea in…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…ternalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outlook? Exactly how did it manage to poison the moral worldview of nearly all South Asian Muslims? This is what makes EHT rather precarious. In trying to identify the root causes of pervasive Muslim homophobic attitudes, it relies too heavily on speculative psychology, suggesting that socially conservative Muslims today have subconsciously mimicked a Victorian sexual ethic. Modern-day jihadis, too, h…

What Makes Mormons Weird?

By Joanna Brooks

…tion remains for many Mormons: what makes us so “weird” to the rest of the American public? It’s a subject that Mormons will have to face and learn to engage directly in the twenty-first century. If in the nineteenth century our cultural strategy was to remove ourselves physically from the American mainstream by physical emigration, our twentieth-century strategy was to cultivate an aggressively friendly and “mainstream” public presentation in app…

Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…needs of the world outside, but many a 1950s-model corporate dad seemed to manage that level of workaholic interpersonal distraction with only a newspaper and a neat cocktail after coming home late for dinner. At the other end of the spectrum, fantasies that the application of new technologies to traditional practices will, in themselves, enrich life in general and spirituality in particular are no less misguided. Take a recent blog post on the…

Hope Once Again In Wisconsin

By Daniel Schultz

…ve-aways to well-heeled interests being technical adjustments necessary to manage a desperate fiscal situation. To my mind, this fresh sense of possibility and the new participation of average citizens in determining their own future offers a tantalizing glimpse of the work of the God of Exodus. Creation, nothing. The Lord—the wily desert trickster—can and does upset political apple carts by calling people to the sort of hope outlined above. I hav…

Glenn Beck’s Fox Show Gets Canned

By Lauri Lebo

…ry Radio Arts effective April 24, 2011. Part of his role as EVP will be to manage the partnership and serve as a liaison with the Fox News Channel. Roger Ailes said: “Joel is a good friend and one of the most talented and creative executives in the business. Over the past four years I have consistently valued his input and advice and that will not stop as we work with him in his new role.” “Glenn Beck” is consistently the third highest rated prog…

The Mormon Moment?

By Joanna Brooks

…political and economic interests of the Church’s white, multi-generational American core and its global membership are increasing. Recent political efforts by the LDS Church to support a suite of moderate immigration reform measures in the state of Utah evidence the growing influence of Latino Mormons in the Church. And they point to a future of more contests and compromises. 3. New tensions about how to manage controversial elements of the Mormo…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…in the USA. We were mainly Muslim scholars who worked together through the American Academy of Religion. Omid Safi suggested that we each contribute an essay to a book entitled Progressive Muslims: on Gender, Justice and Pluralism (2003) in order to publish our stance (political, cultural and theological) as progressive Muslims. For that volume, I decided to write an essay on homosexuality in Islam. I was frankly afraid of doing it, being uncertai…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…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 born. Thing two: The circumstances of my older son’s birth were so incredibly hard that if someone told me I had to go back in time and do it over again……

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…talk did skillfully blend a pollyannaish optimism with echoes of perennial American Christian calls for personal and national “spiritual revival.” This message has its origins in a pastiche; not only of 19th-century Christian economic preaching ranging from Charles Finney, Henry Ward Beecher, and Russell Conwell (of “Acres of Diamonds” fame), but also to 20th-century thought like Prosperity Gospel and Christian Reconstructionist economics. (Which…