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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…to you, you flood of human custom! Who can keep his footing against you? Will you never run dry? How long will you toss the children of Eve into a vast, terrifying sea, which even those afloat on the saving wood can scarcely cross?… O hellish river, human children clutching their fees are still pitched into you… Human cruelty is like a deadly flood that people pay admission to chuck their own children into. Why children? Because they are the ones…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dy and that is morally wrong.” But, using your wife’s death to score a few cheap political points against a group of people you hate isn’t “morally wrong”? But wait, there’s more! Garlow also uses his dead wife to point out just how fake the relationships between living, loving gay and lesbian partners really are. He talks about the delight he experienced being married to his wife, something gay and lesbian people certainly couldn’t have, right?…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…hey’ve gone after the most organized political opposition in the country, killing hundreds and wounding thousands—blood spilled is not soon forgotten. The Egyptian military’s crackdown on the Brotherhood in decades past left us with Sayyid Qutb and violent offshoots like Gamaa’ Islamiyya, not to mention Ayman al-Zawahiri. We kept quiet even as hatred of the regime bred hatred of America. Think about that for a moment. Why do we fund a regime that…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…, whose case helped DOMA to crumble, I’m stunned. The disappointment that will come in the future when Catholic church teachings do not change will not be a surprise to those of us who know the history of the glacial pace of change in the Catholic church. Personally, unless Pope Francis calls a council on human sexuality, I very much doubt his papacy will change much about the corpus of Catholic teaching on homosexuality—defined by that tradition…

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

By Peter Laarman

…men in politics (which is to say, the Republican Party) who are more than willing to go down in flames with Donald J. Trump. These good Christians (culturally Christian, confessionally Christian, or both) continue to regard Individual 1 as an “imperfect man,” ignoring the fact that Trump never made even the slightest effort to become a decent human being (at least not after the tender age when he realized that his family was rich because crime pay…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ican American communities a disservice and fails to consider why a growing number are shifting away from belief— a shift that is tied to a long history of African Americans challenging belief in God. This narrowing of African American’s opinions on belief misses an important point. “Free thought,” in a variety of forms, has a presence in African American life that is centuries old. To question or deny God is as African American as is embracing the…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ial media, one can hardly imagine that a singular voice such as Niebuhr’s will ever emerge again. Still, that has not quelled the consumption of theology in public by the masses of social media users. That includes young black millennials as well. Given the number of gospel music videos that get shared on Twitter, the preaching clips that get shared on YouTube, the Facebook Live notifications I receive during an on-going worship service, and the v…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng to the Bay Area Reporter, the Yes on 8 campaign had raised about $16.8 million, while about $13 million has been raised by No on 8. ++++++++++ Rick Warren Sets the Record Straight Whatever else Rick Warren may be, he is the master of his own domain; savvy enough to try and control his image and how he is described in the media. After his performance as moderator at Saddleback Church’s presidential forum with Senators John McCain and Barack Obam…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…s, burgeoning traditional and new media outlets, and the coming of age of Millennial evangelicals, it is seeing its pace quicken dramatically. Back in 1985, when many of the most recent converts were still singing Sunday School songs in evangelical churches, Thomas Howard wrote in the postscript to Evangelical is Not Enough that after completing the text in 1984, he formally converted to Catholicism at the Easter Vigil in 1985. Ultimately, Howard…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…gests that you not try to relieve suffering by clinging to what you think will save you, whether it is science, religion, art, your spouse, your children, your money, your public image. Doing so will only increase your suffering and that of your fellow creatures. Instead, let go of everything you think is true, hit the big reset button, and learn to see the world correctly. This is what the Four Seals insist on, and this is what the Buddha insiste…