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Odd Comments by Michigan Football Coach Reveal Who Anti-Abortion Christians Think They’re Defending

By Karen E. Park

…for the moment that this verse is part of what’s known as the “Call of Jeremiah” and demonstrates only that Jeremiah was chosen by God for his special prophetic office, not that all of us regular human beings were similarly known and chosen.) Regarding Harbaugh’s plea on behalf of the pre-conceived unborn, we should notice that Jeremiah 1:5 reads “before I formed you in the womb I knew you” not “while you were growing in the womb I knew you.” In o…

Archbishop Nienstedt Admits … No Wrong in Sexual Abuse Scandals; Pledges to Keep Doing What He Does

By Patricia Miller

…at many church officials have become practiced at when dealing with mushrooming sex abuse scandals: admit what they can no longer deny (but no more), deny any actual wrongdoing on the part of those charged with policing priests and abuse, and pledge a “new day” from here on in. In a statement, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said that Nienstedt continues to pretend that his deliberately deceptive behavior—over years—is just well-i…

Sex Buys the Pulitzer Prize

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he tremendous turmoil that inevitably accompanies expulsion from office in mid-term—such attention was rewarded with the highest form of recognition a journalist or a newspaper can receive. Where have I seen this before? Oh yes, when a former US President, engaged in a similarly ill-advised dalliance with a female staffer, was subject to impeachment proceedings for perjury. Said President, while consumed with this trial and his own defense, was re…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…rger fabric of the town. As a result, and especially after a tragedy, each minority religious community that suffers discrimination must pay a cultural tax: the extra burden of educating the rest of the country about its traditions, its rituals, and its cultures. After 9/11, there was a massive outpouring of videos, blogs, and articles by Muslim leaders aiming to educate Americans about Islam. In the various radio appearances by Sikh leaders this…

Public Preaching

By Martin E. Marty

…heologian and stayed with him. Next generation: John D. Rockefeller Jr., admired modernist Harry Emerson Fosdick enough to basically fund cathedral-like Riverside Church in New York. We have records of the give-and-take contentions between preacher and hearer, often about the place of the businessperson, one of which Rockefeller was. When Reinhold Niebuhr was a Detroit pastor he had no notable members, but he challenged all on issues of labor; not…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

…s something close to the universal sign of “no-homo.” In this context, one might feel the need now and then to remind oneself and the world that one “can’t be with that sweet stuff,” as Culliver put it. Both the NFL and gospel music, then, might be said to have long relied on flamboyantly fraught caricatures of gender and sexuality, and both football and gospel are as often assumed to be keepers of traditional values surrounding masculinity and pi…

Bishops, It Is Nobody’s Fault But Your Own

By Kate Childs Graham

…say about the Catholic Church and peace: Peacemaking is not an optional commitment, as the bishops state. It’s a requirement of our faith. Peacemaking is not simply nuclear disarmament. It’s putting an end to violence in its many forms. Not an optional commitment. Non-negotiable. Sounds the same to me. And so, we are left to wonder what would our world look like today if the USCCB had put more energy into creating peace in our world and calling up…

A Nation of Believers and Nonbelievers—Second Thoughts on Obama’s Speech

By Ronald Aronson

…eligious right, a possibly dangerous precedent. In his Labor Day speech in Detroit, which was shortened to nine minutes because of Hurricane Gustav, Obama mentioned God and prayer no fewer than six times, and concluded by leading the audience in silent prayer for those in possible danger. Among the audience were thousands of people who do not pray. Perhaps he was trying to spare their sensitivities by imposing a silent prayer, but wouldn’t it have…

To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd

By Joshua L. Lazard

…stor of the church, Wayne T. Jackson, in his historical role as a longtime Detroit minister. This is not the fault of silent black Christian intellectuals, but rather the tragedy of an American public that fails to see the value in their voices. Jacobs argues that this (again due to the current national landscape) also has to do with the ways that “Christian” is a bad word in liberal circles. Black folks most likely to emerge as Christian intellec…

Hopping on the Meditation Brandwagon: “Heartfulness” Makes Landfall in Los Angeles

By Anita Little

…action” videos from friends that pepper my inbox. Despite this, I was determined to approach the conference with an open mind (or open heart as they’d rather have me say). Kamlesh D. Patel at USC However, both Soni and Patel seemed curiously vague when discussing the most intriguing—and some might say eyebrow-raising—aspect of heartfulness, namely something called “yogic transmission,” or the “utilization of divine energy for the transformation of…