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Fellow Mainline Christians: Are We Completely Useless?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e else who experiences racism directly. But this is a story that might actually call for a white-person rant. I’m not sure. All I know is that when I read it, I said, “Oh, I recognize this. These are my people. These are my people at our very worst.” I am speaking of this study in which sociologists sent emails to more than 3,000 churches across the country. The emails purported to be from someone who was relocating to the area and was interested…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…e end of each month. This was not small town America in the ’50s, this was Miami in the ’80s. Today I shop at drugstore.com. I shop anonymously. We, Consumers We should never forget that to consume is to devour. Whether it is the excess of our ritualized Thanksgiving meals or the “click, click, click” of the computer mouse in response to “free shipping!” “40 % off!” or “Buy one get one free!” in the United States, we are gluttonous consumers of ma…

“Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” Less Durable Than Sexism Surrounding It

By Eva Mroczek

…icism” blog, which requires a pastoral reference and a statement of doctrinal commitment from anyone who wishes to post there. He’s part of a group of scholarsworking with the Green Collection, funded by Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby. Containing the largest private collection of manuscripts related to the Bible, some of questionable provenance, the Green Collection has a strong evangelical agenda: it’s dedicated to proving the historical a…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…he least I can do. There are not many white Muslim converts in America, proportionally speaking, and I’m sure sometimes they feel overrun by the preponderance of brown. (Get used to it, world. Rabbits breed like us.) And sometimes humor does go too far. But the real reason I’m writing, Lindsay, isn’t because of that—although I am sorry—or even Mean Girls, one of the best movies ever. Or even that I had the biggest crush on you because of that movi…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ind it hard to accept the tough-talking, tender-hearted shepherd of spiritual misfits into their orthodox fold. _______________ Tell us how you became a Lutheran pastor. I have a checkered past so it really felt like it was something that was thrust upon me, it wasn’t something I was seeking. That’s when you really know it’s grace, when it’s really disruptive. If 15 or 20 years ago someone had said to me, “You’ll eventually be a Lutheran pastor.”…

Bullies Flourishing with Christian Support

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston Texas. Brown, his family said, was “bullied to death” – picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class, his mother and stepfat…

Religious Freedom in Post-Castro Cuba

By Lygia Navarro

…tand up to their families, who couldn’t understand why they let themselves miss opportunities. It must be put in bold: We were marginalized, ostracized, persecuted. We were a lost generation.” “Now everyone has their beliefs” For many, the pressure was too intense: Catholics now in their 40s and 50s lost most of their peers to emigration, and few young people joined the church in their place. Then, in the 1980s, the slow thaw began: after building…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…words RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM? He can’t say it, and unless he will, the problem will not be solved! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2015…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…a sense of fear and a desire to control the disorder, revealing a fundamental misunderstanding of the significance of what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring.” Beyond Radical Islam vs. Secularism Many in the West, and even specialists of Middle East history and politics, have still not recognized the sheer magnitude of what has transpired in the past year. In this short time, no less than three decades-long authoritarian dictatorships have b…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the cash payouts for these initial investors… and for everybody else. It’s also called a “pyramid scheme,” and so long as the base of the pyramid is larger than the tip, the system is, if not quite secure, then stable at least. When numbers of new investors decrease, as is inevitable in a finite universe, the seismic shocks ensue. What triggered this now is the overwhelming feeling of crisis on Wall Street and throughout the country. Simply put, a…