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GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…here. But it seems today’s disciples are not furthering the Lincoln-Roosevelt gospel. With federal tax dollars, Lincoln expanded western settlement, subsidized agricultural colleges, and sponsored the country’s first trans-continental railroad, the cutting-edge infrastructure of the day. He imposed tariffs and established the federal income tax. He set up a national currency, the Department of Agriculture, a system of national banks, and reviewed…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…transition as well as liturgies for same-sex weddings. As reported by The Telegraph’s religious affairs editor John Bingham, Wilson is a leader of a new campaign by pro-LGBT Anglicans, the LGBTI Mission, pushing for liberalization of church teachings on sexuality, an effort that runs counter to pushback by conservative Anglicans that resulted in the recent suspension of the Episcopal Church USA from the Anglican Communion. . The new campaign group…

Perry Thinks Palestinians Should Be Shafted, No Surprise

By Sarah Posner

…rances with Danon is sadly not unusual for a Republican who has allied himself, as Perry has, with Christian Zionists like fellow Texan John Hagee. Danon, who has likened President Obama to Pharaoh, appeared via videotape at the inaugural Freedom Federation conference last year at Liberty University, saying, “we know you love us and want to commend you for unconditional support for state of Israel,” adding that “Christians and Jews share the same…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. The klansmen had expected to find Michael Schwerner, a field worker for the Congress of Racial Equality. Schwerner and two of his CORE colleagues—James Earle Chaney and Andrew Goodman—were actually in Ohio at the time, but heard of the Mt. Zion burning and came back to Mississippi to investigate. They were pulled over, arrested, released, tailed, and finally ambushed and murdered by klansmen. You can read the w…

Romney not Precisely Familiar with Questioning Obama’s Faith, but Stands By It

By Sarah Posner

…y shares the religion that Romney claims the nation was founded upon, is the one who is undermining the proclaimed official national religion by promoting religious pluralism….

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…hates me teaches me caution. The one who is indifferent to me teaches me self-reliance. Three people are my friends. Hospitality is the gracious acknowledgment of the sacredness of another person’s humanity. The persons to whom we offer hospitality are “messengers,” and even “friends,” with lessons to teach us, if we are humble enough to listen and learn. “Death and Life” So yes, “just words.” Womanist scholars Rosemarie Harding and Rachel Hardin…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…of. But these dreams are important—they make up for a lot.” The idea of “religion as feeling” resonates in this context. Even with 90 minutes counting down on the referee’s watch, “a sense and taste for the infinite” impresses itself. The game feels deeply personal that way. You dream of possibility, enwrapped in the process. Each minute an opportunity for equalization, victory or loss; yet each minute fleeting all the same. Seeing the human body…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…th shallow understandings of their own traditions—to say nothing of anyone else’s religion. Meanwhile, some of the spiritual students (though certainly not all) are those who work the hardest to figure out what they can believe in or sign on for, while still maintaining a sense of personal integrity. Outside of my professional life, the issue for me (as I presume for anyone out there who is still reading) is also quite personal, because I cannot c…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…s are all susceptible to the same critique, in these pages I’ll confine myself to Religulous.) This is the kind of thing a fair number of my students, raised in the Protestant-dominated United States (even Catholics and Jews have assimilated this definition), come to university thinking about religion; the two key components of which are “belief” and “God.” Religion is some cryptic interior, individual thing that exists in one’s own head, and is o…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve of the family synod. Reporter Anthony Faiola notes that while Charamsa deliberately chose a particularly splashy and provocative way to come out, some LGBT Catholics fear his tactics could be harmful. Many gay activists are cheering Charamsa’s action, heralding him as a Vatican whistleblower. In two days of extensive interviews with The Washington Post, for instance, Charamsa said the Vatican office where he worked routinely shut down priests a…