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Archbishop of Chicago Accuses Emanuel of McCarthyism Over Chick-fil-A

By Sarah Posner

…ore “enlightened” if he had the privilege of living in our society? One is welcome to believe that, of course; but it should not become the official state religion, at least not in a land that still fancies itself free. Surely there must be a way to properly respect people who are gay or lesbian without using civil law to undermine the nature of marriage. There’s an embedded fallacy there, of course, that gay marriage “undermine[s] the nature of m…

Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

By Vincent Lloyd

…tices that had maintained a forced unity of the Black community fell away. Welcome opportunities to live, socialize, work, and study in new spaces—for those who could afford them—posed a challenge to the Black social fabric. The most talented Black youths came to be educated in predominantly white universities and to work with predominantly white colleagues. Laws and policies that maintained white domination by new means, including police violence…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…nal uses of zeolites. This supplement and many others are enthusiastically promoted by the Health Freedom movement, where opposition to public health meets conspiracy theories about the New World Order meets spiritual and religious claims about personal wellbeing and societal freedom. The email from the organizers of the Health Freedom Summit included another ad for a book about how the medical industry invents pandemics to make money, and then an…

ELCA Removes All Barriers to Gay Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d. “Because those documents now said that, I feel my ideas and I are still welcome in the ELCA,” he said. Those who don’t feel their ideas are welcome are pulling away from the church to gather under a newer, smaller, tent. A new Lutheran denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, is being formed from churches who have left the denomination, upset that gay and lesbian ministers are being accepted. It reminds me of a question my conservative…

Bloody Religious Conflict on the Way Out?

By Ira Chernus

…’s influence, his own high standing as a public intellectual, and the very welcome news he brings: Far from being a force for more conflict in the future, religion on a worldwide scale will increasingly be a force for moderating conflict. Wolfe reaches this conclusion largely by interpreting data released by the Pew Global Attitudes Project last October. It showed that, by and large, the sociologists’ old-fashioned secularization hypothesis is pro…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…the Sisters of St. Joseph, a women’s religious order in the US, offered a welcome statement: “We stand with those who are marginalized and we are saddened by the effects the Vatican’s latest pronouncement has on the LGBTQ+ community…When one of us is marginalized the entire human family is diminished.” The Institute Leadership Team of the Sister of Mercy was equally strong: “…we are disheartened to read the recent declaration from the Vatican ref…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…at Brentwood, which, given the craziness of the rest of the weekend, was a welcome respite. We had several more visitors than usual, and our blog stats are through the roof, but nothing entirely out of the ordinary. This may change over time, we’ll see. I guess all we can do is take it one step at a time. You’ve written one book, edited another, and co-authored another with Emily Bowen. Can you tell us a bit about each of them? My most recent book…

Beyond Adam and Eve

By Becky Garrison

…ansgender inclusion and advocacy because they were looking for the radical welcome edge. Rather, their outreach efforts were a pastoral response to the transgendered people who joined The Crossing community. Out of about 75 people who are part of their congregation, she estimates that about a half dozen are transgendered. “If we love those who are part of our community then we need to go out and stand by them and create more inclusive communities…

The Tyranny of Politeness

By Daniel C. Maguire

…He said they “unanimously hate me” for saying that but, he proclaimed, “I welcome their hatred!” Republican governors rejected federal money for Medicaid expansion. The result? Harvard and CUNY researchers say the death toll from 25-state ‘opt-out’ may be as high as 17,100 annually; hundreds of thousands more will be harmed by depression, untreated diabetes, and skipping mammograms and pap smears. Who were the victims of these Republicans? Fast f…

Accept Gays? Only If They Know Their Place

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ple and their families, Elke writes: “After Sean’s death we were no longer welcome at our church. Church friends stopped calling – they didn’t want to take sides! We do not belong to any church now.”David Gushee, a Christian ethics professor at Mercer University, recounts Elke’s story and some of the other heartbreaking stories of gays and lesbians crushed and torn by religious hatred in his review of the book in the latest issue of The Christian…