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The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…place I loved, the place that proved so crucially formative to my sense of self, will be lost forever if the cavalcade of anti-LGBT bills pending in the state legislature are enacted (see below). Because the way I see it, these pending laws are crooked as the Brazos. I am a transgender queer Latinx, born and raised in Texas to a Mexican woman and Anglo man. And although I left the state at age 26 for graduate school—becoming the first in my family…

Nashville Cats Play Dumb As Backwards Preachers

By Daniel Schultz

…s dumb. Blotting out the sun dumb. So dumb that it forms less of a theological statement than a Facebook post masquerading as a creed of the church. It is so monumentally stupid that the largest button on the page is “Sign Now,” as if taking the time to read the thing first would surely dissuade you from supporting it. If you don’t know the statement in question, it is the latest in a series of such pronouncements from the Council on Biblical Manh…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…ffect the most poor and vulnerable. But Sister Simone, as she’s most often called, is also a seasoned attorney and lobbyist who is the executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby based in D.C. In NETWORK’s statement on Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA), Sister Simone, a member of the Sisters of Social Service, said that while some Republican leaders have called for congressional action for immigration reform, Republic…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…amount of energy and time members of our species put into frightening themselves and each other. I’m interested in the paradox of horror, the bizarre fact that many of us voluntarily seek out the kind of entertainment that’s designed to evoke negative emotions in us—from disgust, fear, and anxiety, to dread—and I think an evolutionary perspective helps to dissolve that paradox. We evolved to find pleasure in vicarious experience with threat scena…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…n by God for a special “errand.” His famous “City upon a Hill” language, itself taken from the Gospel of Matthew 5:14, and later cribbed by Ronald Reagan, comes from a letter he wrote on the ship Arbella just before coming ashore in New England. This letter was not a document touting the religious freedom and democracy the new colony would soon enjoy, but a description of the Puritans’ covenantal obligations to God and the wrath they could expect…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age. Carter and the Falwell family have had an uneasy relationship over the years. Both Carter and Jerry Falwell Sr. (the founder of Liberty University and the father of the current university president) claim(ed) to be born-again Christians. But during the Carter administration…

The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

In the aftermath of the fire, President Emmanuel Macron called for solidarity and challenged the French not just to rebuild the Notre Dame cathedral, but to make it more beautiful than ever (“plus belle encore”) and to do so within five years. A moonshot to the past, damage reports be damned. But is this the right response? Writing as a lover of history, the Middle Ages, and Paris—not to mention as someone who marks key points in life by visits t…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

Few days are as conspicuous and as significant in the liturgical calendar of the American civil religion than Thanksgiving. The language and rituals of the holiday are unmistakably religious in nature; a mythic origin story, a call for supplication and gratitude, the breaking of bread (or carving of turkey) with family both chosen and not. As religious (or “religious”) as the form of Thanksgiving is, the holiday is also estimably secular, a ready…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age. Carter and the Falwell family have had an uneasy relationship over the years. Both Carter and Jerry Falwell Sr. (the founder of Liberty University and the father of the current university president) claim(ed) to be born-again Christians. But during the Carter administration…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…eserve this F-word? They’ve kicked out the president of a seminary for counseling victims of domestic violence to keep quiet, and for telling at least one rape victim to forgive her assailant and not report to police. They dethroned a few other predator pastors and confessed to past failures to protect the weak. This counts as feminism? I’d simply call it justice regardless of gender—which, by the way, actually is the definition of feminism. Appar…