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An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…ed for us under Pontius Pilate.” The life of those in first-century Palestine was one of degradation, filled with hunger, poverty and state oppression. Crucifixion was a grueling death reserved for insurrectionists—those who dared to defy the Roman Empire. The Roman centurions who arrested Jesus and pierced him in his side were brutal agents of the state, like the modern-day police forces. The Roman state killed Jesus after a smear campaign and a…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…th every candidate either an absolute friend to the church or an absolute enemy. Metaxas therefore thinks that, to keep someone he sees as Julian the Apostate out of office, Christians need to throw their support behind Caligula. Reno, Metaxas and others are not seeing things clearly, and by continuing to make apologies for Trump, they are making it impossible for Christianity to offer a public witness that doesn’t just coincide with strict partis…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ies. It takes a decision that is personal and private and makes it the business of someone’s boss. PM: Well, I guess they could take Cardinal Dolan’s advice and go to 7-Eleven, although he seems to be unaware of any method of contraception other than condoms. The good news is the regulation was sloppily written (surprise!) and skipped several regulatory review steps, so there is a possibility it will be tied up in court for some time. SB: What do…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…ther have disappeared.” Back when girls were girls and men were men, everyone knew where they stood—and where they lay. Notably missing from this modern Archie Bunker’s supposedly scientific argument is any reference to same-sex couples, since they wouldn’t fit into his complementarity-of-the-sexes model in which “we long for what is missing in ourselves.” But despite their sex acts being supposedly “self-referential,” gay men may be having more s…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…n theological book-learnin’ can so easily slide into precisely what Augustine warned against: a game of Cleverest Person in the Room. I expect we all think we have good motives, and we’re probably all right sometimes and wrong other times. And your kids seem nice. I hope they—and all kids—enjoy love and safety in a world that seems, sometimes, to revel in its own stupid cruelty. Well, internet, how’s that for lighthearted? Next week: whimsical pu…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…ilies and young children and sincerely trying to show them a good time was never the goal of the Trump administration. In order to understand the real goal of this event, we need to head over to the Egg Roll “reading nook.” To watch the videos of the reading nook, held outdoors on a day when temperatures struggled to climb out of the 40s, is to give the children credit for tolerating such rollicking fun as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s re…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…remarkably specific articulation of Catholicism’s embodied language of witness, atonement, and sacrifice. As Dan Berrigan intoned over the flames, signaling that specificity but also a wider moral audience, “We’re all part of this.” When I first learned of this protest, many years ago, I was taken by its power, its evocative symbolism, and the political risk it signaled. I wrote about it in my first book. And I regularly look at the words Daniel…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…remarkably specific articulation of Catholicism’s embodied language of witness, atonement, and sacrifice. As Dan Berrigan intoned over the flames, signaling that specificity but also a wider moral audience, “We’re all part of this.” When I first learned of this protest, many years ago, I was taken by its power, its evocative symbolism, and the political risk it signaled. I wrote about it in my first book. And I regularly look at the words Daniel…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…tion. Our present etiologies can be similarly lacking. Historians of medicine have conjectured that the mania was due to some kind of collective epilepsy, or mass poisoning by the hallucinogenic fungus ergot. Most experts find these theories to be unconvincing; the arrhythmic, nervous twitching of ergotism is unlike the coordinated dancing of the choreomaniacs, with Waller emphasizing that “No chemical or biological agent known to sixteenth-centur…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…gs a cheap Taurus pistol to Baltimore, to people who also feel unheard and neglected. (Never mind the strange psychology of the “lone wolf.”) So the freedom to live without threat and the freedom to own a gun are at odds. Someone will have to win and someone will have to lose. I mean this quite literally. The only way to have meaningful gun control will be to vote people out of office. The popular cry is to have enough moral courage and political…