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So Deep a Wound: Home, and the novels of Marilynne Robinson

By Garret Keizer

…she moved away from it. It was the kind of bad companion loneliness makes welcome. You might continue reading from there until you feel that the author’s run of memorable sentences has played itself out, which is another way of getting to page 281 and the paragraphs previously mentioned. 3. The character in Home lonely enough to welcome the radio’s bad companionship is a thirty-eight year-old ex-schoolteacher named Glory, who provides the narrati…

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 Biola Queer Underground

By Sarah Posner

…ty and assuring students struggling with same-sex attraction that they are welcome in the Biola community. This is Biola’s version of “welcome:” Biola students are required to sign a contract affirming their agreement with the university’s belief that “sexual relationships are designed by God to be expressed solely within a marriage between husband and wife.” The new statement goes into more detail, looking at God’s design for marriage, offering h…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…ly not a civil ceremony Mr. Kushner was proposing. It was a religious one. Welcome to the strange new world of wedding celebrants. When I was ordained as a Presbyterian minister more than 30 years ago, the only wedding officiants were public officials and members of the clergy. Couples seeking a religious ceremony had to sidle up to someone like me and ask if I’d be willing to oblige. As long as one or both of them professed Christian faith, I was…

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…