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Homophobia an “Atrocity,” LDS Bishop Tells Gay Mormon Conference

By Joanna Brooks

…bian people have gone through, I quoted a scripture in Zechariah [Zechariah 13:6] where someone—who Mormons interpret as Christ—comes and shows wounds, and he says, “I was wounded in the house of my friends.” I used that imagery to characterize the scars of gay and lesbian people. I know it’s strong imagery. I just feel really mournful about what they have been through. All of these realizations are very new to me, and it’s still quite raw. I was…

Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline

By Peter Montgomery

…und to the ears of a political scientist – humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural. […] Building an intellectual and spiritual state — a state based on ideas — does not mean building an ideological state. Indeed, an ideological state cannot be intellectual or spiritual. A state based on ideas is precisely the opposite: it is meant to extricate human beings from the straitjacket of ideological interpretations, and to rehabilitate th…

Newt Gingrich Visits the “Holy Ghost Bartender”

By Sarah Posner

…high-energy, racially-mixed church in Temple Terrace he founded in December 1996. Nearly 1,000 people spend about four hours in a service led by “the Holy Ghost bartender,” as he is known. Here, he serves the new wine of Christ, and they get drunk with joy. It’s not uncommon for worshipers to break into uncontrollable “holy laughter,” shaking with mirth, dancing in the aisles or falling to the ground. They say they are “slain in the spirit.” The m…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…complex in Afghanistan, a term used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961, can be traced back to the 1950s during Eisenhower’s own administration. The US also played a major military role in the pivotally located nation for the duration of Sharbat Gula’s life. Most notably in the 1980s during the Reagan administration and Operation Cyclone; and most recently in every presidential administration during and since September 11, 2001. The white…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…he says, pointing out that many such people are still sheltering away from contact with the wider world. The idea “also frames disabled parishioners as the objects of charity rather than allowing us to attend church on our own terms,” says Knego. Indeed, there are ecclesiological problems in how Warren’s argument is framed, which is to say, problems in how that argument understands the nature and purpose of the church. “Our worship is centered not…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…ime. The youth of the church have engaged in the anti-racism work with the spirit of this is good, but why aren’t we being bolder? Our intention in this has been to invite people into the life-changing, ancient Christian practice of fasting. Fasting is a challenge. This program was announced at the beginning of Lent in March. But the threats didn’t begin until this past week. What happened? The Tuesday before Palm Sunday, we received our first hat…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…is more violence or the threat of violence. This means more police, police contact and police resources automatically means more violence because cops add their own violence to what’s already [there].” “They are the sources of violence,” they conclude. Another detail that gets me So what are police for? As I’m writing this, the Times reports that Border Patrol agents arrived earlier than previously known. But when they got there, the local Uvalde…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…ged by Catholics against Muslims, Jews, “pagans,” and other Christians from 1096 until they finally ended in 1798, is both a weapon for Christians to “hoist the flag of our faith and make a statement” and apparently anti-Muslim kryptonite—is a whole mess of Islamophobic Christian nationalist ideas in a single gun. It’s not unique, and that’s the sad part. There’s a gun store that chose the name “Templar Rifle Company.” Hodgdon Powder Company’s mis…

Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

…example, while my school encouraged students to volunteer at Billy Graham’s 1999 crusade in Indianapolis, a friend from my church youth group who went to another local Christian school told me that her school forbade its students from involvement with Graham (who, had, decades earlier, bailed Martin Luther King, Jr. out of jail) because he was “too liberal.” The Christian schools the Supreme Court is forcing states to fund will run the gamut. But…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…activism in tandem with their optimism paved the way for the passage of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote. My advice to those who [feel pessimistic but] want to disrupt and connect for social change is to: Always remember that your work matters Take a break when needed Be actively patient—while you wait for the “big change,” work on “smaller” changes Work with others—changing systems is not a one-person job Make time to cele…