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Eyes on the Prize, Rainbow People! A Post-DOMA Challenge

By Peter Laarman

…ommunity and those in solidarity with the still-unfinished Black freedom struggle would feel under the weight of two body blows in a single week. In her powerful dissent on the Voting Rights case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited Dr. King on the “arc of the moral universe,” adding that it only bends toward justice through steadfast commitment—and that that commitment had been “disserved” by the Court majority. Many Black writers have been quoting…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…o not seem as popular among those who’ve been on the receiving end of the Trump administration’s more destructive, racist, draconian policies. I don’t see immigration lawyers and activists, especially among the Latinx community, clamoring for unity. Nor are my Muslim friends, who’ve dealt with rampant Islamophobia within the Trump administration. Nor are climate change scientists who have watched the Republican party deny the very existence of glo…

A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…become tainted by its association with divisive politics under President Trump. It runs Monday and Tuesday. Well, I don’t know why they would be afraid of being associated with Trump and all he stands for, other than that 81% of white evangelicals voted for the dude, or 61% percent of them still support him (admittedly down from 78% two months into his problematic spell in the nation’s capital), or that 37% of them said they were more likely to v…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…onder, perhaps, what she would make of what we have done with her gift. We have made theology, and we have made women’s studies. And we have deconstructed both. We have certainly not made a world where women are free….

Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…future. Not necessarily by choice, but by reality. Yes, they work hard. but they refuse to allow themselves to be trapped by their work. They believe that the world has changed and they believe their possessions will only hinder them in the new world….

Roe v. Wade: What Would MLK Do?

By Tamura Lomax

…sexist and patriarchal. So, that’s not what I mean either. If he was alive today, I am not exactly sure where King would stand on the issue of reproductive rights. King was a dialectical thinker. Thus, he could be both pro-life and pro-choice concomitantly, taking what he needed from one side or the other and rejecting the rest, and thus forcing the rest of us to consider the possible “good” on all sides as well as the inconsistencies of our own p…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…who remember and revere traditional Catholic social teaching (especially Rerum Novarum and Laborem Exercens, pro-union encyclicals issued by Popes Leo XIII and John Paul II respectively). These staunch Catholic friends of labor are usually joined by some liberal Jews and liberal Protestants. But moderate and evangelical Protestants? Among the white ones, not so much. White evangelicals have even been known to create their own entities (e.g., the C…

The Kremlin and the Church: Russia’s Holy Alliance

By Konstantin Petrenko

…would by now have ensured that no religious organizations would remain in Russia today other than the very limited number that were functioning in Andropov’s Soviet Union.” In reality, the 1997 law has not been strictly enforced at the federal level, but it has allowed local politicians to discriminate against minority faiths. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-Day Saints, the Church of Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Salvation Army have ex…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…ve ones are wrong. If user reviews are any indication, Atheos has been instructive to several non-believers who sought structure and resources for their conversations. Atheist blogger Courtney Heard wrote a glowing review on her site, Godless Mom, where she described what a great learning experience the app was. “It’s not just taking me through common conversations that I get frustrated with frequently, but it’s also proving, with each step furthe…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…fluence in American life, with more than half citing an excessive focus on rules (51%) and an inappropriate concern with money and power (51%). But do such data really tell us much about American religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understan…