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

By Anita Little

…he same Bible out of which my conservative brothers and sisters pull these cheap one-liners to control the conversation about reproductive health also shows us the life and ministry of Jesus—whom we all claim to follow. The Jesus of the Gospel always treated poor people and people in crisis with compassion, never judgement. I don’t understand how you can claim to model yourself on Jesus while seeking to constantly judge and shame and limit people….

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…ued that American Christians were selling out their religious identity for cheap political gain, and that they could help ensure their religious integrity if they took that identity off the market altogether by concealing it in public life. This approach would take seriously Jesus’ advice to pray in secret and to give alms without letting “your left hand know what your right hand is doing” (Matthew 6:3-6). It also would follow an undercurrent in C…

Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet

By Katherine Kelaidis

…sometimes called the Ohrid Archbishopric). The Church’s convoluted history dates back to the Middle Ages. Most recently it found itself in schism over the past 70 years with the whole of the Orthodox world. But over the past few weeks, it’s been acknowledged by both the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Patriarch of Serbia, bringing it back into communion. Among other things this Balkan reconciliation sends a quiet message to Moscow that the res…

The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion

By Andrew L. Seidel

…metaphorical hell. To quote such a person on the beauty or virtue of love cheapens love. To bring the nation together, both Senator Amy Klobuchar and President Biden quoted the Pledge of Allegiance, declaring that we are “one nation, under God, indivisible,” (as did Jennifer Lopez in Spanish) without realizing that “under God” is an exclusionary amendment to the Pledge from the 1950s and that it is another example, not of unity, but of religion l…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…cially regarding vaccinations and Covid regulations. Health libertarianism dates to the antebellum period when the concern was bodily freedom and a constitutional right to medical freedom. In the 20th century, the term health freedom has been invoked in diverse controversies including access to abortion, life-ending drugs, unapproved cancer treatments, and medical marijuana. The crux of the issue for many years has been access to treatments beyond…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates, popular Bible teacher Beth Moore, and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore. The recent leak of Russell Moore’s private letter detailing racism and abuse of power at the highest levels of the convention put a sensational exclamation point on the trend. For the nation’s largest body of evangelicals, all the warning lights are flashing red. Wh…

How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’

By Katherine Kelaidis

…is idea comes from Nestor Iskander’s Tale on the Taking of Tsargrad, which dates from the late 15th or early 16th century (so, very close to the actual fall of Constantinople). It’s a prophecy that’s been frequently repeated, including most famously in recent history by St. Paisios of Mount Athos, an influential late-20th-century Greek cleric. The liberation of Constantinople has then taken on further significance. No longer merely a single politi…

Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…are “real religions” or entitled to equal treatment under the law. Laycock dates the connection between satanists and the Navy to 1967 when Anton LaVey held, with a full Navy color guard in attendance, what was probably the first ever Satanic funeral in San Francisco for a sailor who had joined the Church of Satan. Granted, TST wasn’t founded until 2013, and they’ve posted the differences between the two satanic groups on their website, but it doe…

Odd Comments by Michigan Football Coach Reveal Who Anti-Abortion Christians Think They’re Defending

By Karen E. Park

…baugh went on to quote from the book of the prophet Jeremiah, a text which dates back to the sixth century BCE, and whose purpose is to explain the ancient Israelites’ captivity in Babylon as punishment from God for straying from the law and worshiping false gods. Jeremiah 1:5, which reads “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you,” is the hands-down favorite verse of anti-abortion Christians looking for scr…

In Sermon on Birth of the ‘Fatherland,’ Putin’s Patriarch Kirill Equates Invasion of Ukraine with Defense of Orthodox Faith

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ns) commemorate the birth of the Virgin Mary. The coincidence of these two dates has been an important touchstone in Russian self-understanding. The Russian Orthodox Church still uses the so-called “Old Calendar,” according to which this past Wednesday (September 21st) was September 8th. The celebration of this major holiday occurred the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his “partial mobilization” of some 300,000 Russian reservi…