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America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…irtight claims to divinity, it’s made for some problematic theology in the American context. Simply put, what we witness in American Christianity is a battle over which Christianity represents Christ and his perfection, thus conferring ultimate and total authority upon opposing interpretations of the Christian faith. Perhaps it’s my own Jewish experiences that allow me to favor Jesus’ humanity over Christ’s divinity. My own personal history with J…

“Flipping the Script” to Win Gays Back to the Evangelical Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…inity as human beings can get. Roen would deny this to LGBT people, but he offers a couple of alternatives. First he offers us Jesus! He has said “Yes!” to Jesus, he writes. That’s fantastic. But, my five-year-old me arises to object. “I know I have Jesus. I want something I can touch!” Jesus is a fantastic listener. He’ll let you go on and on about your problems, your desires, the day’s frustrations and joys — but he’s not that good of a snuggle…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ch). He sees religious freedom as “the last line in the sand” for faithful Americans who worry about government overreach. “If they really want to defend religious freedom, then they actually have to get out of public policy,” Mero says of faith-based groups and religious institutions going forward. When it comes to his own faith tradition, Mero acknowledges that he is “just a lowly, un-listened-to member,” but says he and other Mormon colleagues…

The Absence of Public, Visible Mourning Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight COVID

By Joshua Ladon

…ain in our synagogue sanctuary. I’m not able to inhabit a public life that offers regular reminders of his absence. We’re not actually coming to grips with the loss, it’s simply out of sight. And this is a single reflection of our national existence. There are now over 150,000 families, developing networks of pain and suffering wrought by this national tragedy and this administration’s indifference. During a presidency defined by border walls, tra…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…just wrapped up its first season. Over twelve episodes Serial untangles the 1999 murder trial of Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Baltimore Muslim who was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Serial probes pre-9/11 American attitudes towards Islam, which played a significant role in Adnan’s unjust imprisonment. We at RD became obsessed with the podcast, and even live-tweeted the finale. If you haven’t listened to it, go do it now. I’m not go…

Why Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?

By Rachel Wagner

…of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World (Tyndale, 2010). The book offers a remarkable account of what heaven is like, with the promise that many (but not all) of us will make it there. But as news outlets have widely reported, Alex has publicly announced that he made it all up. The Boy Who Came Back is a vast collection of impressions of heaven, a twenty-first century form of the literature that’s been around for over two thousand years i…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…I imagined a film about the North Dakota oil boom should be.” Religion in American public life is sucked, more often than not, into the vacuum of highly politicized issues. It is as though religion is a kind of explosive substance that we can either fight to extend deeper into politics—or we fight more vociferously to extricate it from the political. Religion is either the poison or the cure. If religion is discussed tangentially with environment…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…many Christian institutions, academic and otherwise. Particularly since the 1995 publication of (former Wheaton professor) Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, many in evangelical Christian circles have worked hard to improve their academic credentials and scholarly ethos. If secular critics are troubled by the deregulation of faith-based educational institutions, Christian critics may be more so. After all, the stakes are high for bot…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…News reports that IKEA Singapore refused to discontinue a promotion which offers its customers discount tickets to a Christian magic show produced by Lawrence Khong, the anti-gay pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church: Mr Khong has claimed that gay people have “a shorter lifespan, more sexually transmitted infections and more health problems than the general population” and has warned of a “looming threat” of “homosexual activists” trying to re…

Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…-yet-conversation that needs to become a conversation. In some quarters of American Christianity, the loudest calls for pacifism seem to go hand-in-hand with a kind of macho bravado that can alienate everyone who isn’t a white hetero hipster swaggerer into homebrewing, Crossfit, and Jesus. You seem to be offering a different model here—a Christian pacifist who is neither a conflict-averse fussbudget nor an aggressively overcompensating dudebro. Is…