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Jesus for Atheists (and Agnostics, and Nones, and Everyone Else)

By Tom Krattenmaker

…new and difficult times we are going through in this country, and ways to talk about Jesus that can resonate outside of Christendom. I think lots of those folks will find my book helpful and give their faith a shot in the arm. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? Since I write principally as a journalist, I want all my work to inform people and help them put things in perspective. That said, I want to do more than…

An Atheist Hero is Something to Be

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…t’s significant. That is a central thing for me. I have a much easier time talking to someone who believes in God (and with whom I am in total disagreement) than someone who is indifferent. You can’t talk to someone who is indifferent. And someone who is morally indifferent is of no interest to me whatsoever. At least when you’re talking to someone who is religious, you’re both coming at the question from the position of wanting to be good and wan…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e ‘change’ therapy The LGBT group Arcópoli has filed a complaint against Elena Lorenzo Rego, a psychotherapist who offers therapy to help people “change” from homosexual to heterosexual. India: Video aims to help families talk about sexuality The Indian Express reports on the latest episode of a Web series designed to show people how to talk about sex and homosexuality to their children or their parents, “Sex Chat with Pappu & Papa.” …

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…of Christianity. They have so much to teach me. On that same note, can you talk a little bit about what it’s like being labeled as a “Christian writer” today? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Can Christian writing (per se) still be social justice writing if it only reaches a Christian audience? I’m not quite sure about this one. In the beginning, I liked to call myself a conservative Christian writer because I thought it would be interes…

The Battle for the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ding a path to citizenship. And many realize the futility of continuing to talk about opposition to marriage equality, hence the shift to talking about religious freedom instead. They still share opposition to same-sex marriage with the AFA. But they’ve adopted a different frame: advocating for what they claim are endangered religious freedom rights in the face of the new marriage equality reality. No matter how dubious one might find those religi…

The Islamophobia Dodge of the Religious Freedom Pledge

By Sarah Posner

…, but protects the right not to believe. So why won’t the pledge promoters talk about Islamophobia — by the very candidates it is trying to get to sign the pledge? The only candidate so far to sign the pledge is Rick Santorum, who just last week advocated for profiling of Muslims. Santorum has also maintained that “Christendom” is at civilizational war with “jihadis,” who include, in his mind, moderates like Imam Feisal Rauf. When I asked an Open…

Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence

By Holly Welker

…rs or intellectuals”—were singled out by Elder Boyd K. Packer in his 1993 “Talk to the All-Church Coordinating Council” as especially dangerous to the church precisely because the issues they raise matter to Latter-day Saints, who may feel that “the Church somehow is doing something wrong to members or that the Church is not doing enough for them.” According to Elder Packer, trying to help and comfort people in pain “seems so reasonable and right”…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…h-talk less taboo? Rather than a typical American avoidance of any serious talk about death, will we turn toward one another in collaborative dialogue about end-of-life questions and advance directives, funerary rituals that honor our connection to the earth, religious rituals that shape our relationship to death, life, and the Divine? Whatever death practices we develop during this time, I hope that we will imagine them not just as stand-in repla…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

Talk is cheap, and sentimental talk cheapens public discourse in dangerous ways at a time when total sobriety is required. Eight weeks into a public health and economic catastrophe, the facts before us should be sobering enough: Disease and death in this pandemic overwhelmingly afflict communities of color (e.g. despite making up just a third of the state’s population, 70% of the dead in Louisiana have been African American; in Michigan the numbe…

Will “Rights” Claims Tip the Scales Against Gay Marriage?

By Eric C. Miller

…uld be. The authors report being “troubled” by the extent to which “rights talk” can shift public perceptions of issues and candidates, especially as these allow ideologically extreme figures to pass beneath a “cloak of invisibility.” To me, this indicates that the public should take extra care when presented with rights claims by conservative figures, but for Lewis, apparently, it means that conservative figures should be making more rights claim…