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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

…the nones could be interpreted primarily as a shift in cultural assumptions—that people are more likely to say “nothing in particular” unless they have a good reason to identify otherwise when asked about their religious predilections. Pew’s forthcoming reports will provide greater depth to understanding the nature and significance of these changes. The release of these initial numbers makes one thing clear: the water is changing, and fast….

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

…ing a minor’s breasts while she slept. “James said that they disciplined (redacted, Josh) after this incident.” The family did not alert authorities. The police report reveals that Jim Bob Duggar “met with the elders of his church and told them what was going on” rather than contacting law enforcement. Josh was then sent to “Christian counseling” for three months, which, according to his mother’s admission, was not any sort of licensed counseling…

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

…people were using hashtags on Christianity’s highest holy day, The Cubit tracked Twitter (and, to a lesser extent, Instagram) activity, turning up plenty of clever marketing, post-church tweeting, and historical rehashing. 1) Easter tweets seem to peak after church When do people tweet out their Easter feelings? The Cubit’s analysis suggests that the hours immediately following church are the sweet-spot for Easter hashtagging. Across the board, po…

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…