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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…th one another and God’s grace. As a lesbian, I get accused of thinking about sex all the time, but the religious right, with this kind of thinking about marriage, are the ones obsessed with sex. They say that heterosexuality is the only way to get to God! I want Jim Garlow to know this about my 12-year marriage: Sex may have been at the center of your “authentic, biblical, natural, historic, God-defined marriage,” but is not at the center of ours…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…? I mean, if it’s true? Isn’t it good to know the truth, and isn’t it our duty to pass the truth on to our kids? Yes, but apparently the greatest virtue—that children should not be indoctrinated—now trumps even the truth. This seems somehow wrong to me, and very un-Dawkins. What’s going on here? Who Are You? Do You Believe in God? Why? I was indoctrinated, among other places, at Marist School, a Catholic institution in Atlanta. Among the highlight…

I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…rved out of the cheap labor and natural resources stolen from the Global South, future seminarians at these six institutions can continue, without any pangs of conscience, to lift their eyes to the heavens in thanksgiving to their white God, who richly blessed them according to the loving mercies God holds for “his” chosen. But woe unto us who lack faithfulness to whiteness and insist on making sense of our world through Critical Race Theory, for…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…on and creating something new and amazingly vibrant on Washington Square South. But what may ultimately be most endearing was his gift for exploding the cheap piety we’re still imprisoned by as we head toward the 2012 elections. Nowhere was this on display more prominently than in his distinction as the first author to have the word “fuck” printed in the Village Voice. In “Toward a New Definition of Obscenity,” Moody, who had by 1965 screened bann…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…ct with the three Apollo 8 astronauts as they disappeared into radio blackout during their 32-minute crossing of the far side of the Moon [video at the article’s end]. Back in ‘68 it was the sudden silencing of my heroes’ voices that caused a kind of spiritual embolism of the heart. This election season it’s the campaign racket of hate that takes my breath away. Forty years ago, it was heart-stopping radio quiet. This year it’s punishing white noi…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…litigation which will consume 18 months or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new attor…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…sport. Indeed, the epicenters seem designed to embrace not the individual but the public, not the private capsule of the car, but shared and civic space. The federal highway system—the real America—on the other hand, operates as a widely dispersed, center-less system for individual travelers on separate routes, an enactment of the American protestant primordial act: the prioritizing, centering, and sacralizing of the individual in pursuit of their…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…ps, dresses, and scarves. I feel like I need one more scarf. Not for sheer number, but for style; there are so many styles, and one has to decide what works best individually. I have my long prayer scarves that do not need any pins to be neatly kept in place. But they are really long, and I wish I had at least one as neat, but shorter. I want to be hands-free and secure at the same time. I have long rectangular shapes that get draped, and I will u…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…erity gospel—and I might get in trouble with some of my friends for this, but it’s the truth— spreads the idea of the “ATM Jesus.” If you just do the things they tell you to do in church, trust in God and give sacrificially to the church, you will be blessed with financial prosperity. It is rooted in the idea that if you aren’t financially prosperous, there is something wrong with your faith or something wrong with your gift. Let’s say I’m sitting…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…t they see as heterodox for her politics and her willingness to tell the truth about systemic misogyny in conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture. Many seem to have picked up on the thread via William E. Wolfe, a Heritage Action for America alum and former Trump administration official in the Defense and State Departments who is currently pursuing a formal theological education with the goal of becoming a pastor. An angry man who clearly…