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Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…ffiliated Mormons, and other religious groups who have a long history of co-mingling politics and faith on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and erecting Christian monuments on public property. According to longtime RD contributor Joseph Laycock, the fact that TST is non-theistic is totally irrelevant: The Supreme Court has ruled in cases such as United States v. Seeger (1965) that a worldview does not have to include God to classify as…

Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…ower that “could well exceed our wildest dreams.” To achieve this, the anti-abortion agenda had to be “packaged in non-religious language, propagated throughout the country, [and] defined in moral terms.” If this was accomplished and “political power is achieved, the moral majority will have the opportunity to re-create this great nation.” In 1979, conservative theologian Frances A. Schaeffer teamed up with pediatrician C. Everett Koop to tour the…

Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…might. In Christian language, I would say that once we acknowledge our near-bottomless tendency for self-deceit, we can then hear the challenging good news of the One who becomes human to bring grace and truth. But these blessings, in a democracy, are not the sole province of religious vocabularies: with grace and truth beside all of us, the strength to confront structural racism, varieties of sexism, and racialized capitalism may again be ours. A…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…clarifying misconstructions and misinterpretations; and integrating gender-and-sexual diversity and teaching empathy from childhood onwards. But he warned the problem could not be solved without addressing both political and cultural issues. “The classic case is the variety of laws in a number of countries derived from the colonial era which still criminalize same-sex relations, even when the colonizing power discarded such laws a long time ago,”…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…from Part 2 of your “Church Like Home” series, archived below: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNwp8xyBXAh/ When I watched it my knee-jerk response was excitement; Finally, a popular mainstream pastor is talking about getting rid of exclusion, and he’s local! This is huge! My friend, who recently experienced the painful ramifications of church exclusion, seemed hopeful that this tweet meant what he thought it meant: that The City Church was declaring…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…its storyline that depicts the struggles of transgender people in their day-to-day lives. Langlois notes that while “Brazil is far more liberal than many other Latin American countries when it comes to sexuality and gender,” it is also true that “violence targeting gay, lesbian and transgender people has been on the rise nationwide.” In a statement critical of the ruling, Human Rights Watch noted that a 2015 statement issued by 12 United Nations a…

Open Carry Racism: The Right Wing Fever Dream that Predates Trump

By Jason C. Bivins

…anding desire to lock up all the radicals. But what distinguishes the Obama-to-MAGA era of paranoid fantasy, in all its everyday, strip-mall suburbanness, is the omnipresence of the black body. The Obamas’ bodies, especially, were displayed, defaced, hung in effigy, photoshopped, and made fantasy. There were also those other black bodies, too many assembled to ignore any longer, because too many black bodies had been filmed being felled by too man…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…Perhaps instead of perpetuating our sense of entitlement and Twitter/blog/Instagram-fueled obsession with hearing ourselves speak, we could just shut up for a minute and listen to the wisdom of those who have gone before? … [What millennials really need] from the church is not another yes-man entity enabling my hubris and giving me what I want. Rather, what I need is something bigger than me, older than me, bound by a truth that transcends me and…

‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy

By Sara Williams

…I have lived in repentance for the past several years—repenting of my self-righteousness, my fear-based approach to life, the teaching of my books, my views of women in the church, and my approach to parenting to name a few […] to the LGBTQ+ community, I want to say that I am sorry for the views that I taught in my books and as a pastor regarding sexuality […] I hope you can forgive me. Despite this apparently vulnerable public proclamation, Harr…

How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?

By Chrissy Stroop

…to hold in-person church services, even though churches have played a well-known role in the spread of COVID-19. Interestingly, some Brazilian churches are being similarly defiant of quarantine measures, with Brazilian pastors repeating arguments used elsewhere to the effect that God supposedly won’t allow the faithful to become sick in church. Perhaps if the American public had a better understanding of the conservative, mostly white evangelical…