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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…establish the rules on how a conversation will unfold. They can either silence or direct the discourse so perspectives voiced by the disenfranchised can be dismissed as unbiblical. They could feel good about the anti-racist proclamation they made, and even express righteous indignation if accused of being racist. In all honesty, not knowing the state of their souls, they very well may not be racist. However, by silencing communities of color, they…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…ight prevail. Never, until this year. Perhaps the fear is raised by the coincidence of history: a candidate who speaks of empathy, of our responsibilities to one another, of “the audacity of hope,” opposed by a candidate who appears to have abandoned all morality in his pursuit of power. Each has lined their army of supporters. Those armies are so different from one another in their fears and aspirations that it hardly seems possible they are of t…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…conditions women went through when they felt they could not carry a pregnancy to term. That experience stayed with him. When he began the Clergy Consultation Service in 1967—the group of 21 New York clergy who referred women for abortions when it was still illegal in every state—he arranged for the clergy involved to attend a demonstration that could teach them what an abortion procedure entailed and what a woman experiences in an abortion. The c…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…are: a course called “Biblical Archaeology,” in which the points of compliance and non-compliance between the biblical record and archaeology were pointed out; wide-ranging and fully scientific introductions to biological and cosmic evolution; and a Christian history course in which none of the horrors committed by the church, so thoroughly trumpeted by Dawkins and others, were skipped over or airbrushed. Then there was the king daddy of them all:…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…in November 2006, the pastor cut a deal with his church that exchanged silence for severance, plus time in a Christian “spiritual rehabilitation program.” It turns out that New Life was party to yet another non-disclosure agreement with Haas, who was offered $180,000 for college tuition and mental health services, provided he keep his sexual relationship with Haggard under wraps. Hush money? Boyd adamantly denies it. (He also noted, by the way, th…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…h their own money, on a property is disrespectful. It encourages more violence, which violence kills more hope. Any religious organization planted at Ground Zero would give people hope that there is still a chance that we could still and yet learn to get along across culture or religious lines. When someone dies a terrible death, as did so many at Ground Zero, the grief issue is about how we go on, once we know how bad violence can be. The Jewish…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…One little problem with this scenario: Obama has surrounded himself with once-and-future high-income individuals who are themselves highly susceptible to supply-side dogma that says the rich must be curtsied to and coddled if the nation is to prosper. We should note that this is how savage inequality maintains its vampirish lease on American life: by replicating itself within the bloodstream of elites and would-be elites. But the full weight of…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…curb vice and encourage virtue.” For the first century or so of its existence, it functioned on a model of federalism—the central organization did its work through local auxiliaries, which did the actual distributing of the sacred texts. The ABS produced cheap, text-only Bibles, sold at cost and distributed through “branch societies,” and thus undercut competitors. If you wanted notes, commentary, or maps, you would have to look elsewhere; the AB…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…s is why differing rulings have existed in the corpus of Islamic jurisprudence. These include opinions as wide-ranging as the permissibility of date wine consumption by Iraqi (Hanafi) scholars and of charging interest by Meccan scholars. Additionally, even if López Prater did offend Muslim sensibilities, firing her is an extremely disproportionate disciplinary measure. Given the push towards building critical thinking skills in an age of gross mis…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: The Immigration Impasse

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…arly stages, we have found some congregations that are effectively “borderlands” where the question of who gets to belong to the “beloved community” is asked with increasing urgency. Care to comment? Send a Letter to the Editor at: submissions@religiondispatches.org…