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Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…the kind bitterly denounced by Jeremiah: “from prophet to priest everyone deals falsely: they have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” Wallis likes to tell people that he knows everyone who is anyone among the great and the good in Washington, regardless of political persuasion. He has become a consummate inside player. He hasn’t a negative thing to say about anyone, except perhaps when it co…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d has given up America—remember the first chapter of Romans? About how God deals with idolaters who worship material things? And then there’s Matthew 5:3-11: those who are blessed are poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who are meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, those who are merciful, those who are pure in heart, those who are peacemakers and those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. Just to remind the “God Bless Ame…

Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost

By Mary E. Hunt

…ries and counting. In still another dubious section, “sex education [that] deals primarily with ‘protection’ through the practice of ‘safe sex’” is said to “convey a negative attitude towards the natural procreative finality of sexuality, as if an eventual child were an enemy to be protected against. This way of thinking promotes narcissism and aggressivity in place of acceptance.” What? Don’t teach safe sex because it might imply that every heter…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eping quarters with heterosexuals are well grounded,” he added. Both their numbers and their claims about privacy and shared facilities are unfounded, especially when the facts are actually consulted. Way back in 2001, Deb Price, a columnist for the Detroit News, wrote about a study of what happened when other militaries around the world integrated gay and lesbian soldiers. The result — no increases in assaults, no need for separate shower or slee…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…he means, or, they do—bullshit. The world is so packed with deception, raw deals, rigged games, lying bitches, lost chances, idiot bosses, fucking morons, your own shitty kids. Other people’s victories. Trump says it like it is. “He says what we all want to say.” He says: “bullshit.” His people roar. He steps back. “Oh!” he says, his voice startled, because he’s humble even in his pride. He turns to take in the men behind him shouting bullshit lik…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…ive, but because of racial and immigration attitudes. Until the Convention deals with the reasons it mainly supports a president who finds the good among white nationalists, any anti-racist pronouncements made, regardless of how sincere and stirring they may be, remain duplicitous. But the Convention isn’t really interested in a true transformation. The Faustian bargain made for the sake of Supreme Court appointments trumps any assertions about ev…

Queer Suicide and the Malpractice of “Love”

By Cody J. Sanders

…atter, but in order to protect a public career: speaking invitations, book deals. By ministerial malpractice, I mean the congregation that skirts around open discussions of queer affirmation, inclusion, and justice because they don’t want to become a “gay church” or (more liberally) they don’t want to be “defined by that one issue.” The difficulty is that I know these people and these churches, and so does every reader of this article. More diffi…

The Second Coming of Black Jesus

By Jess Peacock

…ing on the sidewalk in a box, and asks him what he wants today. “The Lotto numbers,” Lloyd replies. “Come on, man, you can do better than that,” Jesus tells Lloyd, who angrily storms away. “I still love your bitch ass! By default, too!” When Jesus and his friends decide to create a community garden (to grow weed) the vacant lot they choose is littered with trash and the soil is not at all appropriate for farming. However, in the theopoetics that J…

RDBook: The End of the World As We Know It

By Gabriel Mckee

…’s “Judgment Passed” (incidentally the only story original to this volume) deals directly with Left Behind, describing the experience of a group of astronauts who return to Earth after a general rapture has removed every human from the face of the earth (presumably to be sorted out elsewhere). Oltion’s story has a certain smugness, which Adams encapsulates in his introduction to the story: “Oltion has strong views on religion—namely that it’s a sc…

The Princess Bride: Royal Weddings for Everyone

By Katy E. Shrout

…ry wedding industry—have conspired to turn weddings into bigger and bigger deals, religiously and otherwise. Add the ongoing political and religious battles over same-sex marriage and the many-tiered wedding cake of public discourse begins to teeter precipitously. Any Bride Can Be a Princess A royal wedding, as anyone not living under a foreclosed rock has noticed, is an especially big deal. For a people so proud of democracy, Americans love princ…