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Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…sts appear to be leading the way. They’ve grown up in a world where moving between denominational or faith identities is uneventful, where races mix easily in school, where both women and men lead businesses as well as diaper babies, and where the internet connects kids globally to fads, music, and social revolutions. Ecumenism attracts them because it fits their life experience. They don’t respect the sharply-defined “in” and “out” groups so prom…

Mitt Romney: Wooden Pastor or Real Boy?

By Mary Barker

…’t help wishing that George had been the first Mormon president. You knew who George was. He was transparent in ways that Mitt isn’t (concerning taxes, for example). He was a Republican that raised the minimum wage, stood up to his own party when it betrayed the African-American community and to the military when he believed it had “brainwashed” him about the Vietnam War. So while I don’t disparage Mitt his good works in the least, I’m not convinc…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…nd September 11th. In 1978, America was still reeling from the loss of the Vietnam War and struggling to regain trust in its government; the culture was transforming from an atmosphere of free love and pacifism into one of Technicolor consumerism. So while the Manson Family murders and the events at Altamont might have been blows to the hippie ethos of the ’60s, it was Jonestown, the utopian dream gone terribly, terribly wrong, that was its death…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…swers. Certainly, the assassinations, the political trials and the ongoing Vietnam War had a traumatizing effect on the nation. In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Picador, 2008) Naomi Klein wrote that when traumatizing events like these happen, capital rushes in to take advantage of the crisis to restructure the economy in favor of the radical free market. It was this period—the end of the 1960s and early 1970s—when the busine…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…who enjoys watching the game from his window.” The ambivalent relationship between the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the American media has continued ever since. There is no other job opening on Earth that would receive so much attention—despite, or maybe due to, the fact that many prominent journalists are openly hostile to the teachings of the Church. Much of this is the legacy of the man who boldly put both a pope and “popery” on the…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ok like they’re related, or possibly were cloned at the same facility, and between Morsi’s administrative incompetence and Norquist’s single-minded anti-tax jihad, this is not a promising beginning. Right now, Egypt is imploding; the Caliphate can’t be located in a country that isn’t able to defend itself. Not to mention, with only 20% of the world’s Muslims being Arab, this would be a little too convenient, especially for all the Muslims tired of…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…bridging”: a distinct form of civic engagement emphasizing the connections between issues and the complexities of moral responsibility and citizenship in a pluralistic society. Liberal Protestant denominations are more likely than Roman Catholic and Evangelical communities to engage in public work of every kind except direct political action. Even with depleted social policy and outreach organizations, liberal Protestant denominations continue to…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…ourth year, having become a naval officer, I volunteered for shore duty in Vietnam which would become a turning point in my life. Never had I experienced such violence, suffering, and fear. In the madness of war, my faith became more important and I felt God was calling me to be a priest. I talked to a Catholic Army chaplain about my calling, and he recommended that I join the Maryknoll Missionary Order who worked with the poor around the world. I…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…led a series of international delegations to places like Laos, China, and Vietnam. It has also sponsored a series of visits to Pakistan’s Peshawar region, where it created a group called “Faith Friends” to promote “tolerance” and interfaith cooperation. In part, IGE can do things like this because, unlike the many right-wing think tanks focused on “Islam,” it is genuinely interested in dialogue. But what kind of dialogue? Although IGE sounds like…

Yes, the Navy Yard Shooter Was a Buddhist

By Joshua Eaton

…e moral force of his convictions, and Buddhist monastics in both Tibet and Vietnam chose to burn themselves alive in protest rather than take up arms against their oppressors. In fact, the promise not to kill another living being is the first of five precepts enjoined on all Buddhists. (The other four are to refrain from stealing, lying, sexual misconduct and intoxication.) If someone cannot even keep the precept not to kill then what business do…