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Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…iberación, Dignidad, Justicia [Liberation, Dignity, Justice]. Celina Pinada, 30, who is studying accounting at the UCA and helped to design the mural, explains that it represents the struggle to escape from various forms of oppression—sickness, violence, poverty. Another alfombra depicts a campesino, “a victim of conflict, or of this latest catastrophe,” says Eduardo Maciel, alluding to the landslides that killed nearly 200 and displaced more than…

Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…framework again comes into play: The gender binary isn’t something natural, innate, or essential; it’s learned. And since children’s ideas aren’t yet fixed, there’s a possibility they may never learn. That, more than the specter of bathroom violence, is the threat trans people present to children. And that’s why so many of these bills target youth. Contemporary liberalism suggests that we can create a society in which everyone can be included, bu…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…d Ezra: there are these people called mainline or liberal Christians around, too, and if you are trying to give Christians a voice in progressive venues, you might want to start with them instead of always looking for an unconventional conservative. Let me just state the obvious here: I have no idea what really went into Vox’s decision, and whether the people doing the hiring really thought it would be super neat to have a gay Christian as a write…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ban our organization” DeMuth declared “I’m delighted that now, back in the USA, authorities have made no effort to stop us, either by lawfare or violence,” then adding, to the delight of the audience, “but, given ‘defund the police’ I’m not sure they could.” In fact, NatCon in Brussels would become almost a mythical event over the course of the day, referenced by many speakers as an example of bravery in the face of adversity. In Brussels, DeMuth…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…haven’t heard over the past nine years. Catholic Democrats are feeling pain, fear, despair.” What’s surprising, says Krueger, is the range of people he’s heard from. “It’s all over the demographic landscape—older and younger, lawyers, blue collar workers, etc.—all used the word fear.” The big question they all have, Krueger said, is how they should move forward as Catholics, especially because the institutional church is offering little guidance….

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…he power of fame. Just think of the endless cycle of awards shows for music, film, television, Broadway, and so on, or the countless outlets for popular fanzines, or the never-ending media fixations on stardom, whether instantaneously achieved on reality TV shows or YouTube, or more gradually from perfecting a particular craft like acting. The cult of celebrity is so embedded in everyday culture, so critical to the economy, so powerful in our drea…

Presbyterians Again “Spahr” over Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ction is immaterial. The marriages may well have been legal under state law, she said, but were “expressly prohibited” by the same ruling that acquitted Spahr in 2008. Blackstone said the case hinges on “a narrow issue of church law” and is unrelated to the public debate over same-sex marriage. Unfortunately for the church, the public debate over same-sex marriage is precisely the issue. For a clergy person to be forbidden from performing a weddin…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…his 2004 “I Am A Conservative Christian, And The Religious Right Scares Me, Too,” highlights the complex intersection of tea party politics and the religious right. While some in the religious right have called on the tea party movement to have more “reverence to God” or to focus more on abortion politics, Baldwin brings fundamentalist Christianity to the tea parties from a different angle: arguing that pastors are the leaders of a revolution tha…

Why Didn’t Trump Lie About His Bible?

By John Stoehr

…his, after all, would have been in keeping with the purpose of the photo op, which, we were told, was shoring up lagging support among white evangelical Christians at a time when his image as a strong leader was in jeopardy. This president lies about virtually everything else. Why not this? The answer I keep coming back to is that telling the truth this one time was, by his estimation, putting himself in a better light according to the people cons…

Sarah Palin Favorites “Jesus Against Obama” Church Sign

By Lauri Lebo

…correct this with whichever wonderful media outlet ran with this (an obviously bored reporter…since there must be nothing going on in the world today, like, um, ramifications of a shake up of power in the U.S. House of Representatives?).”…