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Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…e of things, a limited measure, while simultaneously serving as an invitation to further exploration. The laughter at the North Clintonville, Ohio “Krampus Parade” gathering, as pagans and friends unite to banish the spirit of evil from the yuletide season with drums and bells and masquerade—or the more solemn drumming, accompanied by the steady pat of feet in a procession of Spanish-speaking Catholics in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe— these brie…

Yes, It Was an Attack on Christianity

By Carlos Wilton

…engaged in discussion with them, as Pastor Pinckney fed his flock with the Word. True to the laws of hospitality, the Christians of Mother Emanuel Church welcomed their guest. Then he abruptly turned on them. The author of Hebrews exhorted Pinckney’s flock to be profligate with their hospitality, lest they find themselves entertaining angels unawares. In Dylann Roof, those churchgoers met a devil. Roof could just as well have visited his racist wr…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the 1920s “five fundamentals” that has led to the rigidity and bigotry of today’s Christianity. Instead, I’m proposing five new fundamentals that result in a more gracious, loving, and welcoming Christianity. As a friend of mine in church once said, “We’re all fundamentalists about something. It just depends on your fundamentals.” For too long, the fundamentals emphasized by Christian leaders have led to exclusion and division. It’s time for new…

Sorry, National Review: “Religious Freedom” Bills Do Permit Bigotry

By Sunnivie Brydum

…btedly deserves to be placed in scare quotes, as publications ranging from New York magazine to the Wall Street Journal do. The author’s complaints about Lang willfully misrepresenting the facts are particularly laughable in the face of the outright falsehoods Desanctis offers in response. Most immediately and demonstrably, Desanctis implies that “religious freedom” bills and the executive order are concerned only with marriage. And while the Supr…

Poets and Preachers: How Black Literature Blurs the Lines Between Sacred and Secular

By Josef Sorett

…th on the page and performed on stage—was for me a source of respite and renewal from the rigors of graduate school and the rhythms of church life. By the time I entered the Ph.D. program a few years later, I found myself wanting a deeper historical understanding of the relationship between poets and preachers, and what I had witnessed in the present taking places in churches and salons. Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…ildren), and the rising call for solidarity with the poor that mirrors the words of Jesus in Matthew 25. “Every word of Scripture was written by oppressed people,” she says. “My people were shocked and for a minute they were fearful as to what was going to happen” says Perkins of his congregation. “That shock and fear has subsided, because we are people of faith and ultimately we know that our trust is in God.” “We are angry, we are grieving, we a…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…hip with evangelical Christianity itself. A deep sense of knowing that the world of Hebrew and Christian scriptures are, in a consequential way, true. An angry, stumbling, ancient G-D. Bewildered community. Mysterious hope that defies logical explanations. Tent pegs through the skull. Innocent animals cut to pieces. Cities laid waste. A burning tower of fire that won’t go out. There is the haunting sense of these stories being more real outside th…

An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage

By Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj

…5:8). It doesn’t get any clearer than that. You may think LGBT rights is a new conversation, something that’s only recently come into contact with modern Islamic thought, but trust us, it’s not. Challenging the status quo for the betterment of society is one of the very foundations on which Islam was built. No one is asking you to change your beliefs. If you feel your faith tells you that homosexuality is haram, fine. We disagree with your interpr…

White Christian Complaints About Religious Persecution Are Especially Ugly on MLK Day

By Sunnivie Brydum

…is op-ed, billed as a defense of religious freedom, doesn’t spare a single word to denounce Trump’s most blatant attack on this bedrock principle: his suggested mandatory registration of American Muslims, and a blanket ban on entry into the U.S. of anyone who practices Islam. Instead, Perkins suggested that “President-elect Trump must direct that religious freedom be properly integrated into all foreign policy of the United States at every level.”…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…y of same-sex couples and the imperative that they be treated equally. The word “dignity” appears nine times in the majority opinion in that case. It appears just once in Hobby Lobby–in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s concurring opinion (for those who believe in a “divine creator” and “divine law,” “free exercise is essential in preserving their own dignity and in striving for a self-definition shaped by their religious precepts.”) For the women affecte…