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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…Image via LonelyBuildings.org. How did the old St. Paul’s Lutheran Church become Fremont Abbey? The Church of the Apostles is both Lutheran- and Episcopal-based. The church was able to essentially buy the building through the Lutheran side. It’s a young, creative church, with lots of artists and musicians involved. The founding pastors there wanted the building to be used by the community. They knew that they wouldn’t really have a lot of use for…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…tion-affiliated Lifeway Research has argued that these numbers indicate a redefining of Christianity in which those who had been marginal or nominal Christians all along feel a greater comfort in simply reporting what was true about them all along, that they are unaffiliated. The percentage of American adults who identify as “born again” or evangelical increased over the timeline of these studies. What is even more interesting than the factoid its…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ds that are headed by LGBT parents; by the pride parades that have nearly become national holidays in which everyone participates and by the many draft laws that have been submitted with the aim of securing equal civil and economic rights for LGBT Israelis. While many of them have yet to become law, they are nonetheless paving the LGBT community’s way into the heart of the national consensus. It would not be going too far to say that in 2015 Israe…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Lewis explained that since the 1970s, American evangelical churches have become entrenched in Jamaican society and are no longer viewed as outsiders. In contrast, advocacy on behalf of the human rights of LGBT people is seen as a cultural import. In 2013, the Jamaican Coalition for a Healthy Society and the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship organized a conference that included outside speakers such as Peter LaBarbera of Americans for the Truth about…

Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie

By Sarah Posner

…ere I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life. Ruining his life. According to the police report, Jim Bob and Michelle, paragons of parenting, hid Josh’s crimes from the police and the public. In Touch reports, based on the police report it obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…of sodomy, which is detested by God.” He is merely articulating what had become Christian consensus at the time, as Boswell and many others have clearly demonstrated, i.e., what “God detests” is “role inversion”—the “passive” or receptive “female” role a man takes when loving another man, or the “active” or “masculine” role a woman takes when she loves another woman sexually. Cover of a pulp fiction novel from 1959. Image via Wiki Commons. The se…

Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

By Gareth Higgins

…he notion of a “real America” to which “others” don’t belong, nor by pretending they are without imperfection. The rabbi and leadership consultant Edwin Friedman taught that the purpose of leadership is to induce the conditions whereby the audience could become emotionally mature. He’s right, but Presidents don’t get elected by asking their base to take more responsibility for their lives. At least not yet. Photo illustration of Rand Paul as Iron…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…y, shuffling music; hated, in my nascent angry young feminist way, the glazed-eyed girls who swayed through those parking lots asking for change, and the “mamas” and “old ladies” minding the camp stove while 60-something-year-old Deadhead guys hit on my teenage friends by offering them tickets to shows. Deadheads were anathema to my chosen subculture of socially conscious punks. East Bay punks were aggro and in your face about social justice, femi…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…t, along with billboards, TV commercials, yard signs, and slick Easter-themed webpages (“These look like invitations to a hipster wedding,” said a friend who stopped by to observe The Cubit’s research process), plenty of churches went with customized Easter hashtags, à la New Life’s #itaintover. New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in the suburbs of Atlanta, pushed #IAmResurrection, with the hashtag scrawled, in enormous, blood red fo…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…ak your awful silence. Amen.” Frustration with evangelical rationalism pushed Webber “in the direction of worship and the sacraments.” Instead of looking for God “in a system,” he turned his attention to the “mystery of God’s saving presence in Christ.” Like Webber, Evans celebrates orthopraxy more than a system of beliefs, noting that “it was the sacraments that drew me back to church after I’d given up on it.” Despite this emphasis, she is quick…