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Finding Love—and Dogma—in Unexpected Places: Jeff Chu’s Gay Christian Odyssey

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…matic. On both ends, I think there’s been a lot of misunderstanding, and a lot of pain, and a lot of wounds. And the scar tissue that results sometimes keeps people on both poles from having difficult conversations where they may make themselves vulnerable. Could there be a middle way for people to come together on the issue of homosexuality? How can you come forward in vulnerability when you feel either victimized or hurt? I think we all need t…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…the pulpit—even encouraging congregants to vote for or against a given ballot initiative—without hearing from the federal government. “For years, the IRS has taken a very loose approach toward enforcing the Johnson Amendment,” said Kreis. “It’s been particularly lax in terms of allowing religious nonprofits to engage in non-cost political activities. […] The concern, I think, has been more in terms of spending money. We don’t want folks to donate…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…n incredible few weeks in South Africa. I met a lot of great people, saw a lot, and learned a lot about the thousands who gave their lives to struggle against apartheid. I spent a great day with Archbishop Tutu, who is one of my heroes and my friend—that is an enormous blessing. And I have met all the greatest saints. My life has been so unusual, from time in jail and traveling war zones to being with Mother Teresa, Dom Helder Camara, the Berrigan…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…hange? Are new kinds of theologies or religious organizations necessary? A lot of people—some religious, some not—are quite confused these days about how a market economy works and largely ignorant about the nature and causes of the transfer of wealth to the top one percent of the top one percent of earners. There are a lot of people between the 50th percentile and the 90th who are voting against their economic interests. It seems doubtful that re…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…s a man, but then this is the lore and literature remember), a man earns a lot and gives in charity; another learns a lot and teaches, a third fights in battle. When they come to the Judgment it was said, the man who had earned and gave did so, so that people would say he was generous, and they did, so that was his reward. The man who learned a lot and taught did so so that others would call him learned—and they had, so that was his reward. The ma…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…arture from how young men were supposed to look and to behave. There was a lot of talk about how tight their clothes were and how their hair was effeminate. But most of all, evangelicals, and some Catholics, had a pervasive fear about the hysteria that they inspired in young girls. In all of this, there was this view that teenagers looked to the Beatles as a kind of replacement for religion. And in worshipping the Beatles, they lost interest in th…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…for people who weren’t looking for it. I think that’s it. It used to be a lot harder to convince particularly my liberal white students that politics and religion had anything to do with each other. That was a thing that I had to go out of my way to prove, and now they’re just throwing it out there. It’s just in your face all the time. “Jerusalem, we did that for the Evangelicals,” said it out loud. I’ve been thinking a lot about the Helms Bill a…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…We’re a small and frequently demonized community, and there has not been a lot of fluidity in the way we’ve talked about atheism. Instead, the narrative of what it means to be an atheist has been put in very strong contrast or opposition to religious narratives. As if there are fixed and impenetrable boundaries between the two. And the greatest energy—again, looking at the example of the New Atheists—seems to go to the strongly oppositional or eve…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…have always been African Americans in the Jewish community. We also have a number of artifacts from the Nation of Islam as well as other Muslim communities. So the museum reminds us there were African Muslims who were enslaved, making the Islamic experience part of the founding of America. Even though black history is dominated by the Christian voice, it is not the only voice that is present. We strive to tell the story from Islam to Judaism to Ch…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…. In this book he says the signs are now clearer than ever. He’s written a lot of books, but five on apocalypticism? I don’t know that he’s covered any other topic in five books. At the same time, I want to be very clear: postwar evangelicalism grew far more diverse than interwar fundamentalism. After the war, the movement got bigger, broader, more inclusive and less tied to apocalypticism. What happens is essentially evangelicalism divides, and y…