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Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ympathetic to the advertising. But we don’t take a position on this except promoting dialogue. At Sojourners, we’ve decided to have a safe place for dialogue and even disagreement on our staff and in our constituency. That’s interesting, since the Believe Out Loud ad could be best interpreted as . . . promoting dialogue. Sojourners, so far, has been silent on the Rev. Robert Chase’s piece we published here. In the court of public opinion Twitter,…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…leased in mid-May. Angels & Demons is the successor to 2006’s The Da Vinci Code, which its star Tom Hanks called “just a good story loaded with hooey and nonsense.” Of course, he only has to say that because it’s not true. Everybody knows that despite getting most of his facts wrong, Dan Brown is American culture’s preeminent religious thinker and, in particular, our most trusted interpreter of Catholicism. Even though the Vatican decided to play…

Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…issue. What you may have missed, however, is what number two was on their list of important issues. Coming in at 18 percent behind abortion’s 41 percent response was “protection of religious liberty.” The “butter” of the usual “bread and butter” issues of the religious right—same-sex marriage—had slipped from the number two position drawing the concern of a paltry seven percent of “value voters.” Does this mean that there is a sudden uptick of su…

Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Laying on of Hands

By Lauri Lebo

…ater Horizon continues to spew millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal participated in a prayer vigil at the conclusion of a House session at the state Capitol. While politicians and pastors were praying for environmental solutions to the crisis, they read from 2 Chronicles 20:12, which says, “Neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon Thee.” Which is interesting, because even as Jindal is praying th…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…several South and Central American countries before arriving on foot from Mexico at the Texas border. The two had no visas, but immediately applied for political asylum at the border and were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They fled India because they were afraid of violence. They imagined the U.S. to be a welcoming country. Unfortunately, they were detained as soon as they arrived,” Clement Lee, a staff attorney with Immigratio…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…t. Even though most people say they’re more worried about immigration from Mexico and Central America, whites are really dead-set against Muslims coming to the US. They’re also not big fans of immigration in general. There are similar breakdowns to what we’ve seen above when people are asked whether “immigrants are more of a burden on the country because they take jobs, housing, and health care,” or whether immigrants are changing American society…

Atheist Rock Fest, Buddhist Geeks, Megachurch For Sale, Church Bans Fried Chicken

By Michael J. Altman

…relics from Pope John Paul II, including a capsule of his blood, will tour Mexico this fall. Rev. Roy Bourgeois has been officially dismissed by his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, for his support of women’s ordination. “Don’t tase me bro!” When the head pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama told the church music minister that he was fired, the music minster responded with a taser. Problems continue to surr…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…by white supremacists) boggles the mind. Federal holidays all celebrate or promote particular civic or cultural elements deemed essential to the national character. The question is what exactly is Juneteenth meant to celebrate on a national scale? While the details of the holiday are easy enough to recount, what are the civic lessons that the nation should take from the holiday once the novelty has worn off and it becomes, as so many other federal…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…e opponents argue that the answer should be education not legislation. In Mexico, Time reports, La Familia Michoacana mixes fundamentalism with drugs, violence, and political corruption. The cartel’s leader, Nazaria Moreno—AKA El Mas Loco—has written his own Bible and leads prayer meetings. A conservative pastor in Minnesota, who was outed by Lavender Magazine, will likely keep his job. Rev. Tom Brock had been publicly critical of the Evangeli…

What the National Council of Churches Should Say About Financial Reform

By Daniel Schultz

…h you can do in a single opinion piece, and what’s going on in the Gulf of Mexico looks like a nice fat target. But “the real deathliness” experienced by most Americans isn’t the non-disclosure of financial interests by extractive industries. I’m not even sure most Americans would know what that meant off the top of their heads. But average Americans damn sure know that their wages have been stagnant, the price of health care continues to go throu…