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Do Women Have a Future in the Catholic Church? Social Justice Orgs Petition Bishops This Week

By Patricia Miller

…m this is so), and the women are significantly more likely to hold heterodox positions on whether the pope is infallible and whether homosexual activity is always wrong. None of the millennial Catholic women in the survey expressed complete confidence in churches and religious organizations. And as I noted recently in RD, the trend of women leaving the church only accelerated through 2012. Arguing that the future of the church is in danger without…

The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…ls of changing a gospel that the seventeenth-century English scholars got exactly right. The evangelicals developed a set of institutions explicitly designed to counter the mainliners, creating the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Theological Seminary, Christianity Today, and a huge network of radio and television stations and programs. Evangelicals redoubled their commitment to convert the “heathens” of the Global South exactly when e…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…that faith is more imagined than real. And yet, despite there being some expected variation between Celtic and the rest of Europe’s Christianity, there’s no substantial theological difference between the Roman Catholic Church of the period and its Irish, Scottish, and Welsh believers. Until the Synod of Whitby in 664, the biggest gulf in Christianity between how it was practiced in the Atlantic Archipelago (what most call the British Isles) and i…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…interview with Jake Tapper: “I don’t think there’s any way Israel can be expected to coexist or find some diplomatic off-ramp with these savages,” Rubio replied. “These are people, as you’ve been reporting and others have seen, that deliberately targeted teenage girls, women, and children, and the elderly.… Just horrifying things. And I don’t think we know the full extent of it yet. I mean, there’s more to come in the days and weeks ahead. You ca…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…n ends. The documentary, the Olliges proclaim, fails to make a distinction between “fringe extremists” and “solid Biblical Christians,” whose authoritarian gender structures differ from the IBLP’s in ways the Olligeses never explicate. Indeed, they admit, “sometimes extremism is simple Biblical obedience.” Sisters Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark, founders of a “biblical womanhood” ministry called Girl Defined, whose clips were featured in the docus…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…o consider the current controversy. For centuries, Western perception of Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Dalai Lamas was subject to the now moribund technology of print. With a curious consistency, Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lamas were represented as Asian corollaries to the Catholic Church. Jesuit observers like John Grueber (1623-1680) saw a distorted mirror image of themselves in Tibet, reporting that Tibetans celebrated Mass with bread an…

Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…nations for the Landing Spot’s summer camp—in other words, they collected extra donations in the exact same way most churches do during their services; any “tipping” that would have taken place during this year’s show would have been just as innocent. All of that notwithstanding, thanks to the American Council’s aggressive intervention and Farrington’s sermon, the damage was done. Threats began to roll in. And Pete Constant, President of the RJUHS…

Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

By Caroline Matas

…hird-party investigation last May. “We were in the middle of the biggest sexual abuse scandal that has ever hit our denomination,” said author and teacher Beth Moore in her 2021 announcement that she was no longer affiliated with the SBC. “And suddenly, the most important thing to talk about was whether or not a woman could stand at the pulpit and give a message.” Tuesday’s announcement made waves because one of the six affected churches was the S…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…d, which then blames the victim for encouraging the kick. Fascism not only promotes violence but relishes it, viscerally so. It cherishes audacity, bravado and superbia, promotes charismatic leaders, demagogues and ‘strong men,’ and seeks to flood or control the media. Even as it pretends to speak for the people, it creates the rule of the elite, a cult of violent chauvinism and a nationalism that serves racism.” It took Kevin McCarthy several day…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…red the founder of the movement, rather than his (white) mentor, Charles Fox Parham, who I think has a better claim. While this is largely for historical reasons—Seymour had a much larger audience in Los Angeles, and news of the revival was reported in the city’s press the same day as the San Francisco earthquake—it also speaks to the fact that, from the beginning, Pentecostalism has appealed to minorities, migrants, the downtrodden. William J. Se…