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Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…iving in or close to the hometown, Christian, and angry in ways they themselves find difficult to specify (although the frequency of their social media postings certainly means they try). And, like Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the usual laundry list, they might see the recent “comments” as “inappropriate” or as the usual Trump “hyperbole” or “pecadilloes” (as evangelical pseudo-intellectual Eric Metaxas sees them), but “Killary” must be stopped o…

Confession is Not Conversion: Giuliani’s Bizarre Comparison of Trump to St. Augustine

By Candace E. West

…Trump issued a rare apology—of sorts. The candidate’s statement, which devolved quickly from apology to attack, was enough for Rudy Giuliani and other Trump surrogates, who were quick put forward the idea that Trump is contrite and changed. He is a good man, they argue, who, in the long-distant past, said terrible things. In a bizarre turn, Giuliani attempted to shut down the uproar over the recording by mentioning St. Augustine’s Confessions, a n…

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

By Brad R. Braxton

…Greek verb paschō, which means “to suffer” or “to endure.” Compassion involves a willingness to endure vulnerability and risk in order to enter imaginatively into the experiences of other people. Compassion often begins with a simple question: Why does this person or group hold certain perspectives? Compassion may not produce kindred spirits, but it will produce kinder speech as people wrestle with difficult topics. In the Christian scriptures, k…

How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride

By Joseph Winters

Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference, opting instead to give a plainspoken but powerful speech on the police killings of black men and the damage it does to black communities, especially the youth with whom he volunteers. He said: When you tell a kid, “When you’re dealing with police, just put your hands up and comply with everything,” and there’s still a chance of them getti…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iance of church rules. “Half of the signatories had already declared themselves to be in a same-sex marriage,” reports Nicholas Hellen, “Doubling the number threatens the fragile truce on an issue that has divided the church since same-sex marriages were allowed in England and Wales in March 2014.” Iraq: Interview with Kurdish human rights activist Ayaz Shalal, a human rights activist from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, was interviewed by th…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…very closely at those issues, and not all those issues were completely resolved. There were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines—there were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them, at least, have been addressed. I don’t know if all of them have been addressed. Over the weekend, Stein’s campaign tried to clarify the issue….

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…creasingly turned to the federal government as their method of political salvation. As religious minorities, they believed that in order to enjoy the “blessings and privileges of an American citizen,” America required a vigorous centralized government that was powerful enough to overturn state injustices. In 1844, Smith corresponded with presidential hopeful John C. Calhoun, the architect of the South’s states’ rights doctrine, and asked what he w…

“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

By Neil J. Young

…the man who harassed him as “Lyin’ Ted,” suggested his father had been involved in JFK’s assassination, and made disparaging comments about his wife’s looks. Instead, he staked out a thorough defense of conservatism, what Benjamin Wallace-Wells writing for The New Yorker rightly called “the most exact statement of the prevailing conservative ethos offered yet in this election.” Cruz also spoke for unity–the buzzword of the evening. But Cruz envisi…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…) Members (as of 2009): 7,774,931 In 2008, the United Methodist Church resolved to “strengthen its advocacy of the eradication of sexism by opposing all forms of violence or discrimination based on gender, gender identity, sexual practice, or sexual orientation.” However, according to its 2012 Full Book of Discipline, “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” “Self-avowed practicing homosexual” ministers are not allo…

Unfair Treatment of Women Clergy in the PCUSA and Presbyterian Korean Community

By Gloria Chough

I may leave the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in the future. Whether I do or not, I believe that my story—the story of many Korean clergywomen within the PCUSA—must be told. Just as African Americans, other ethnic minorities and white women have struggled to find their place within our denomination during some of the most racist and sexist periods in our history, so now are the women of the Presbyterian Korean community. I arrived in America in 199…