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Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…tive legal and religious groups that the agency is attempt to stifle their free speech. Through efforts such as Pulpit Freedom Sunday, pastors openly flout the law. Enforcement of the rule, and the revocation of a participating church’s tax-exempt status, though, could trigger a constitutional challenge to it. The rule against politicking, though, isn’t aimed at suppressing free speech but at ensuring that taxpayers don’t subsidize political activ…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al agenda. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out whom that might include. Today’s conflicts over sexual freedom and identity involve an almost-perfect inversion of what we once meant by right and wrong. Australia: Poll says most Christians support marriage equality; government still resisting vote A new Galaxy Research poll commissioned by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays found that most Australian Christians support same-sex marriage and…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…nce of certain Ideas & Principles upon which this nation is built—Liberty, Freedom of Conscience, Equality.” Turning Point’s video suggests that the church’s program promotes “disunity” and “segregation.” But here too, there’s no evidence to support the claim, and plenty that refutes it. As Edgerton told the Chicago Sun Times, “You don’t fast from things that are despicable. … You don’t fast from things that are ugly,” he said. “You fast from thos…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…per capita the most Catholic in the country; how the Great Migration of African Americans brought new faith traditions; how it became home to one of the largest urban Jewish communities; and how Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists have added to the region’s spiritual diversity. Something else cuts across denominational lines, however, because faith takes on a certain earthy quality in Pittsburgh, born from both topography and labor. What other city wo…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…Six—”The Brand”—but there’s no discussion of the work done to prop up and promote this charisma by the throngs of volunteers who provided free labor by serving the church as team members in worship; technology; media production; marketing and publicity; community groups; children’s ministry; women’s ministry; men’s ministry; security; building maintenance; facility multiplication; and hours spent outside of formal church service in a variety of w…

Op-Ed: Bishops vs. Catholic Politicians

By Daniel C. Maguire

…c Church and nothing in his subsequent writings refutes these basic and broadly accepted assertions. During the Vietnam war, the United States bishops issued instructions to “the faithful.” The bishops said that they thought that war to be just…a judgment very few support today. However, they said that the war was a complicated matter and they urged Catholic to pray and consult and decide for themselves. That’s the kind of good sense and humility…

Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space

By Peter Laarman

…macy was explicitly repudiated multiple times, in which a dazzling young African-American poet set many hearts aflutter, and in which an extraordinary Black and Asian woman (with a Jewish husband to boot!) was sworn into the second-highest office in the land. And Joe Biden? Our new president will never be eloquent, but today he showed us his heart. And I would say that his call for a moment of silence in honor of the Covid dead had an eloquence al…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…ry success of the AJS has meant that most scholars of Jewish Studies in America today are centered in universities that have no formal affiliation with Jews at all, and they’re thus also justifiably engaged in theories, methods, and practices of analysis commensurate with their colleagues, with intellectual horizons that aren’t just limited to, nor necessarily supportive of, the normative needs of the Jewish community. To conclude on a personal no…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…n to suggest that Chua’s second article, along with emails to Christianity Today, were fabricated by another person or written under coercion. He refers to comments made by Dr. Donald Tinder, dean of Olivet Theological College and Seminary, who says he found the original article “helpful,” but he thought, “a later email and article were either fabricated, or that Chua was somehow pressured into writing them.” Park refers to Christianity Today’s a…

Interview with Karen Armstrong

By Andrea Bistrich

…Instead of independence there has been an unhealthy dependence and loss of freedom. Unless people feel free, any “democracy” is going to be superficial and flawed. And modernity did not come with innovation to the Muslims: because we were so far ahead, they could only copy us. So instead of innovation you have imitation. We also know in our own lives that it is difficult, even impossible, to be creative when we feel under attack. Muslims often fee…