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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…movement and that gay people don’t really want to get married, we want to destroy marriage. He even used the occasion of 9/11 to compare children who lost their parents that day with gay parents because “everybody who is under that redefined marriage will lack either a mommy or a daddy 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,…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ation of the Vietnam War. Certainly, in this, they drew on the church’s social encyclicals (especially Pacem in Terris, which articulated the Church’s default pacifism) and on the protest lineage of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. As the cameras rolled on the protest, Daniel prayed, too, to the God of peace in whose name they undertook the action. But as the Catonsville Nine reached into the ashes and made crosses on their brows—the Lenten s…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ation of the Vietnam War. Certainly, in this, they drew on the church’s social encyclicals (especially Pacem in Terris, which articulated the Church’s default pacifism) and on the protest lineage of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. As the cameras rolled on the protest, Daniel prayed, too, to the God of peace in whose name they undertook the action. But as the Catonsville Nine reached into the ashes and made crosses on their brows—the Lenten s…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…ries of our present day, or the irrational beliefs which proliferate on social media that were mentioned earlier. Christendom itself was on the verge of mutilation, as Martin Luther had initiated his Reformation only nine months earlier, the very world turned upside down. Society itself seemed to mimic the chaos of the medieval Shrovetide, the pre-Lenten season best known for wild Carnival celebrations, the most famous of which in the U.S. is Mard…

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

By Peter Laarman

…e 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 pays). Here we see the white Protestant abandonment of the rule of law…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…intelligent, personal God. People tend to intuit that living organisms are designed by a God-like designer, and the scientific evidence corroborates this intuition. “The children were right after all,” he sighs. Studies from social psychology really do suggest that people’s pre-theoretical assumptions about living organisms are that they were designed for something. But none of this suggests that our pre-theoretical assumptions are better than the…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…ike that sometimes, the mystery of their hidden lives and our own. Reconciliation takes a long time to accomplish; reconciliation with justice takes even longer. Here and now, it is a pleasant Wisconsin day in June. I have no idea if there are any hidden caverns in our neighborhood waiting to be opened. It’s supposed to get hot later, with thunderstorms overnight. My son has gone off to the county pool, which is near our house. I can hear a neighb…

Is the Satanic Temple Just an Elaborate Prank? 10 Questions for the Author of ‘Speak of the Devil’

By Joseph Laycock

…actions. But this view assumes there is nothing to TST beyond what the media reports. They have no idea TST chapters all over the country are holding book clubs, celebrating private rituals, and generally engaging in what Christians call “fellowship.” Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I am hoping to persuade my fellow religion scholars that religious Satanism is theoretically interesting and worth thinking about. While it is…

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

By Anita Little

…H Woman Act that would eliminate Hyde. Why has Hyde persisted for four decades despite the lack of public support for it? Why has the religious right been so successful in their attempts to curtail abortion rights? The religious right has been so successful because they managed to create a very simple messaging strategy that made it seem like you had no other choice but to be with them or against them. The entire “pro-life” and “pro-choice” paradi…

The Problem with Christian Gentlemen: A Short Goodbye to Ted Cruz, the “Mr. Pecksniff” of Presidential Politics

By Peter Laarman

…together. That many undertakings, national as well as individual—but especially the former—are held to be specially brought to a glorious and successful issue, which never could be so regarded on any other process of reasoning, must be clear to all men. Therefore the precedents would seem to show that Mr. Pecksniff had (as things go) good argument for what he had said, and might be permitted to say it, and did not say it presumptuously, vainly, o…