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After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…id 90s, men are barred from ordination if they oppose female priests. Eva Brunne, the Archbishop of Stockholm, was the first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream Christian church, and her partner Gunilla Landen is also ordained. Jackelen, who became the first female archbishop in Sweden in 2013, told Radio Sweden that she wanted to downplay her gender. “I have been a woman all my life,” she said, “so I carry that with me in everything I do.” But,…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ing life-saving HIV and AIDS medication to sub-Saharan Africa, and for his newest philanthropic endeavor underneath the ONE brand, Poverty Is Sexist. The magazine acknowledges that “men aren’t exactly hurting for awards in this world,” and that Glamour’s Women of the Year Advisory Board has previously vetoed any inclusion of men on the annual list. “But these days, women want men—no, women need men—in our tribe,” the feature’s introduction explain…

What I Heard At The Mosque Reminded Me Of Donald Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…the largest community of Muslims in the Western hemisphere, in the greater New York City area—and he was going to tell them when to vote! But then he finished the sentence: “…for the board of directors of the mosque.” If this were a cartoon, my jaw might’ve dropped to the floor. (Then again, you know how some Muslims are with cartoons.) The baseline indicator of a healthy organism, institution, community or society is at least the instinct for sel…

Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

…p campaign. L’chaim! Mazel Tov Cocktail 1 sugar cube or 1 tsp 2:1 simple syrup 2 dashes Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub 1 orange wedge 1 brandied Rainier cherry (pitted) 2 oz Slivovitz This fiery take on the old-fashioned Old Fashioned is eager to grab control of global markets and pull the strings of vulnerable governments everywhere. Put the sugar, Hellfire bitters, orange and cherry into a whiskey glass and, while inhaling loudly through you…

The Awkward Silence in the Wake of Jacob Neusner’s Passing

By Laura S. Levitt

…at a student would call Neusner to account. To say that Jacob Neusner was cruel to his students is to tell the truth. I call him my teacher, but in truth he never claimed me as a student. I was just one of the many awestruck undergraduates to whom he paid intense attention for a brief moment. It was that attention that mattered. And, for that, I owe him a great deal. He taught me many things as he ushered me into the world of the rigorous scholarl…

White Christian Complaints About Religious Persecution Are Especially Ugly on MLK Day

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s who have seen their houses of worship terrorized and vandalized, and the lives they live “in accordance with their beliefs” routinely demonized by the soon-to-be President of the United States. Although he doesn’t mention specific legislation, it’s not hard to read between the lines and infer that Perkins is referring to the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, a sweeping federal bill that could allow any individual, health care provider, busi…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…ne that has caught on. It’s a theme that Pride inhabits thoroughly in her crusade against feminism. In this war, women’s call is to echo their role in life: as helpmeets, as servants, submissive to the authority above them. “Submission has a military air,” she writes in The Way Home. “For the greater good, the soldier is subject to his commanding officer, even if he disagrees with him.” She continues: This generation is in danger of forgetting tha…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…. Which makes it all the more ironic that chaplains from the Billy Graham Crusade had, according to Landeza, been trying to enter the fire site for days. Landeza, who was born and raised in Berkeley and has ministered in the Bay Area for decades (and had been at the fire site for five days straight by the time this writer was able to reach him), said the Billy Graham chaplains were “not even from the area” and had driven in from other parts of Cal…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…f the likes of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Chestnut Hill), St. Francis Xavier (New York City), DeSmet Jesuit High School (St. Louis), Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) or the Rock Church (Kansas City)? To those closeted gay priests and seminarians who consecrate the Eucharist and who pray for peace and mercy, the time has come to, as Jesus did, to flip the tables in places of worship, to come out. Be the voices crying out in the wilderness, pray for the c…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…ildren), and the rising call for solidarity with the poor that mirrors the words of Jesus in Matthew 25. “Every word of Scripture was written by oppressed people,” she says. “My people were shocked and for a minute they were fearful as to what was going to happen” says Perkins of his congregation. “That shock and fear has subsided, because we are people of faith and ultimately we know that our trust is in God.” “We are angry, we are grieving, we a…