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The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…months is a short gestation even for a newbie pope. But waiting quickly becomes complicity when there is so much at stake—so many lives to be enhanced and spirits to be warmed, so much damage to be undone and suffering to be prevented. As we saw with the rapid exit of Pope Benedict XVI, popes come and go. Older people do not live and cannot work forever. So, while I wish Francis “multos annos,” I am realistic enough to know that what he does to b…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…emerging as a more pointed political indictment from many less mainstream commentators: …with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime… These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business ha…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…that Democrats need to get better at telling stories than at crunching the numbers, in this battle of the budget, the numbers actually matter. Hell, it’s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd arguments with a straight fac…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…mocratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But it’s worse than that: the price Senate Republicans want to extract for helping the jobless includes extending an array of special tax breaks for business while slashing spending at a range of federal agencies. Let it be noted that Congress has never before let unemployment benefits expire while the official jobless rate remains at suc…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…ls with Santa and polar bears. I mean stuff like a sonogram of fetal Jesus complete with halo and a tag line reminding us “He’s on His way.” I also always enjoy a good Christmas billboard duel. This season do we celebrate Reason or Jesus? And are those are only choices? Maybe we should settle on the friendlier “Reason’s Greetings.” The only thing I like as much as Christmas is butter. Now, I can have them both thanks to one Iowa artist’s butter na…

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…pressed concern with how refusing to understand that “true” Christians can commit horrible deeds “denies the violence Christians have committed—in the past and in the present—in the name of Christianity.” He also observed that this denial “collapses the world into ‘true Christian’ (good) and ‘not true Christian’ (bad), so that anyone who is not Christian is lumped into the ‘bad’ category,” adding that this “flattens Christianity and denies the div…

New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

…gave me a modicum of hope that a sea change was happening. https://twitter.com/GraceC_9/status/839954624127840257 https://twitter.com/sofiepearl61/status/839835075785199616 https://twitter.com/PoshPlunder/status/829417751328542720 Though the all-caps invectives provide a healthy dose of schadenfreude, there seems to be a doubling down of sorts happening offline. In a widely circulated story last month, Rev. Joel Tooley of Florida described his une…

A Progressive Christian Conference With an All-White Lineup: What Could Go Wrong?

By Anita Little

…e know that our staff and our current speakers are sharing a plethora of recommendations of absolutely awesome potential contributors…We have, indeed, committed sins of omission against our sisters, brothers, and nonbinary siblings of color. We ask for your forgiveness as we seek to do better. However, the apology was hedged with them also stating they had originally reached out to several people of color to be speakers but their schedules didn’t…

Islam is as American as…

By Peter Manseau

…how American Islam is. Islam is as American as basketball. pic.twitter.com/O6IcSkxvy1 — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as dancing with dad at your wedding. pic.twitter.com/HZL7fRzWFC — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as pride and ambition. pic.twitter.com/ghycpAaTXo — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015…

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

By Holly Welker

…ewsroom.org and several other relevant domain names—latterdaysaintnewsroom.com, thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.com, and thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.org—have been nabbed by the church’s critics (who can’t properly be called anti-Mormon since the church itself is now officially anti-Mormon). Restoredchurchofjesuschrist.org says that it’s “under construction, but Ldsnewsroom.com was still available as of this writ…