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Packing Heat At Unitarian-Universalist Service

By Daniel Schultz

…hat’s mentioned above. A poster in the comments claims to have been at the service, and says that the woman “had come to church because of the sermon on civil rights & civility.” Given the ugly racial and sexual rhetoric that’s been floating around our political discourse of late, not to mention the embrace of violent fringe elements, not to mention UU’s recent history with guns in church, am I the only one who thinks making this point was a reall…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…an veterans who have served since 9/11, 40% of whom live with a certified, service-connected disability. “Thank you for your service”—America’s current public piety of choice—is insufficient to the task. It smacks of the obligatory and it leaves the person on the receiving end unknown, their service reified and past-tense. It’s time to leaven that ritual platitude with some authentic civic reflection, some historical and situational awareness, and…

Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side

By Lucas Kwong

…of physical and verbal abuse, the sight of Biden’s Korean-American secret service agent seemed to augur change. Perhaps we might begin to rest secure in our status as “real” Americans, emblematized in a highly visible member of Biden’s security team. Those paying attention, however, know otherwise. https://twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer/status/1351947576950611972 https://twitter.com/DrAfzalNiaz/status/1351747330924556289 https://twitter.com/ForTrump/…

Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law

By Sunnivie Brydum

…earing business-owners and citizens. “Good laws like Mississippi’s protect freedom and harm no one,” claimed Kevin Theriot, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the well-funded Christian legal group representing Gov. Bryant in the cases. “The sole purpose of this law is to ensure that Mississippians don’t live in fear of losing their careers or their businesses simply for affirming marriage as a husband-wife union. Those who filed…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lost a loved one. You just can’t make it to that merry space. Where is the service for those folks to share those memories of what it’s like to no longer have their loved one there? I also went to a Unitarian Universalist service on Mother’s Day where they plumbed the history of the holiday and discovered it’s not just about feeling happy, but it was born as a day of grief and resistance to the war. It was designed by mothers who were tired of los…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…by default.” Some reacted to the change by noting that women in missionary service would still not be allowed to baptize converts, a responsibility reserved to the male lay-priesthood. And some voiced disappointment that the policy change did not go further by eradicating gender differences in the terms of missionary services as well, as did writer Jana Riess who celebrated the policy change but expressed limited disappointment that the new policy…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…or our own culture. People ask me, what’s the harm? Why not just go gluten free? And the answer is that going gluten free has all sorts of effects. It affects your relationship with your friends and family. It affects your relationship with your own past and foods that you love. While there might be some culture in which celebratory foods don’t typically contain gluten, that’s not our culture. Do you think there’s an incentive to setting yourself…

Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

By Ira Chernus

…w it, of the truly great evil: the subordination of every kind of personal freedom to the arbitrary will of the government. “Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline,” he said in his 1957 State of the Union address. “Should we persistently fail to discipline ourselves, eventually there will be increasing pressure on government to redress the failure. By that process freedom will step by step disappear.” Since, in this view,…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…oorly reconstructed Ba’athists on the Muslim margins.) Suleiman stressed: “Freeing slaves” is so frequently mentioned as a meritorious act in the Muslim tradition that, in the 8th and 9th centuries, biographies of Prophetic companions cited, as virtues, manumission; Muhammad’s wife, Aisha, was lauded for “freeing six hundred slaves.” All well and good: Muhammad changed what slavery meant, or at least sought to, and the tradition developed in respo…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…r calculate the economics of grace. Think of that: grace, the paradigmatic free gift, is replaced by the massive edifice of Wall Street number-crunchers and their continual wagering on the future probabilities. As we all know, a lot of money has been made—and lost—this way. Which leads Buchan to his second point: money generates more money, even on Sunday. This is a subtler point, one that he develops specifically in relation to the invention of p…