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Rev. William Barber Calls Jeff Sessions Nomination A “Moral Crisis”

By Peter Montgomery

…Barber also accused conservative white evangelicals who rallied to Donald Trump of engaging in “theological malpractice,” saying they used their faith to “endorse hate and discrimination.” Barber cited a passage from Isaiah that he said people of many faiths embrace: “Woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights and make women and children their prey.” After the press conference, clergy lined up and streamed two blocks toward…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…change drastically, a new baby boom isn’t going to lift the boat. By now, new church start-ups in the base states run the risk of cannibalizing already-established communities. And while the South changes more slowly than the rest of the country, it’s not immune to the rising tide of disaffiliation. That leaves reaching out to black folks and learning Spanish. The Southern Baptist Convention will have to start looking like the millenial South if…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…f the likes of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Chestnut Hill), St. Francis Xavier (New York City), DeSmet Jesuit High School (St. Louis), Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) or the Rock Church (Kansas City)? To those closeted gay priests and seminarians who consecrate the Eucharist and who pray for peace and mercy, the time has come to, as Jesus did, to flip the tables in places of worship, to come out. Be the voices crying out in the wilderness, pray for the c…

For Men (and Heterosexuals) Only: A MEMO To Catholic Theologians and Educators

By Mary E. Hunt

…, whether we like it or not. For Catholic teachers to persist in using the word “matrimony” or “marriage,” when what is intended is heterosexual marriage is incorrect and easily fixed. Second, the same principles apply to the question of the “Sacrament of Holy Orders” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 2, Chapter 3, Article 6). As long as we are revising, let’s fix this error as well. Since ordination in the Roman Catholic Church…

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

…re decidedly liberal and stand at the opposite end of the theological spectrum. Studies have shown time and time again that this segregation has held true for a multiplicity of reasons. While these reasons range from the difference of praise and worship style and doctrinal differences, to residential segregation or the preference of non-whites creating affirming spaces of their own, white liberal churches aren’t excused from being a part of white…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…tical Thought (ISUPK), founded in 1969 by a figure known as Abba Bivens in New York, has often courted controversy and condemnation through its use of highly confrontational street preaching demonstrations. This group has splintered over the past two decades into offshoots such as IUIC, which are located throughout major American cities and have a considerable presence in social media. Hip hop is no stranger to marginalized iterations of African A…

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…of our faith; instead we see whatever we want. Two current exhibitions at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrate how our biases color the history of Jerusalem. The more modest of the two is Faith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land. Jérusalem, Porte de Jaffa, Intérieur, by Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872). Salzmann was a French painter-turned-photographer and biblical archaeologist. In 1853, seeking to settle ce…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…he Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate, the outcome of the latest ruling would be unimaginable. The Supreme Court yesterday refused to rule in the absence of Justice Scalia on the constitutionality of what has emerged as the most high-profile religious freedom case of our time and threw it back to the lower courts for some as yet unspecified “compromise” to what has been an endlessly compromised accommodation. That in itself would be bad…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mmed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels,” he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable, on the central question about the relationship between religion…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…hing is also based there, and even though Thomas Nelson is a subsidiary of New York-based Harper Collins, its offices are in Nashville. It’s hardly unusual for declarations of state symbols to recognize locally significant industries. Earlier this month, Maine adopted its edible export the lobster as the official state crustacean. The state flag of Arizona contains reference to the state’s copper industry. But state symbol designations can also be…