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Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

…ainst empire and it shouldn’t be appropriated by the powers that be.” This book is a book of rebellion. It’s a book of challenge to the people in power, and that is the way it has been understood in very powerful movements in this country. If we were going to reinterpret this text today, if Christianity is in the American sense, in the global sense, is an empire with which to be contended, who might be the people rebelling be? Who would John belon…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

When representatives of The Episcopal Church gather in Baltimore for the denomination’s General Convention taking place from July 8-11, they’ll be asked to consider a proposed overhaul to the church’s sexual violence prevention policy. Currently, Episcopal canon law requires those preparing for ordination to demonstrate competencies in the “prevention of sexual misconduct.” The proposed changes would strike that requirement. Instead, ordinands wo…

Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…military. We represent 28,522 active duty U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen, cadets, midshipman at West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, National Guard, reservists, Coast Guard, and veterans. Around 96% of our clients are practicing Protestants or Roman Catholics. About three-fourths are Protestants of almost every denomination including 21 different variety of Baptists alone. The other one-fourth are Roman Catholic. The other 4%…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…ative to lines of celestial longitude and latitude. He (or more likely his best student) wrote a book on the astrolabe, an instrument for telling time and making measurements by the sun or stars. You could even use it to calculate the circumference of the earth, which Gerbert and his peers knew very well was not flat like a disc but round as an apple. Much of this science Gerbert learned as a youth living on the border of Islamic Spain, then an e…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…orts,” is indeed “long-discredited.” But then they offer what amounts to an 800-word platform to the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg. The short piece serves as a teaser for Friday’s episode of 20/20, the result of a year-long investigation into several ex-gay “camps” located in the American South. The 20/20 segment features interviews with at least two young people sent to the camps—as well as self-described pastors and administrators of th…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of church teaching, which it is not. Nor am I. Building a Bridge is not a book of moral theology nor a book on the sexual morality of LGBT people. It is an invitation to dialogue and to prayer, and I’m sure that Cardinal Sarah would agree on the importance of both.” He encouraged Sarah, however, to consider why many LGBT Catholics and their families have rejected church teaching. “The only way that the church will be able to answer that question…

Poets and Preachers: How Black Literature Blurs the Lines Between Sacred and Secular

By Josef Sorett

…on paper to make the image onto which [Oxford University Press] placed the book’s title. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I just finished writing a review of The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward, for the website Public Books. This is a bad answer because Ward’s anthology is comprised by contributions from 19 writers. Reading the book, I learned, laughed and almost cried. It also provided me with language to…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…mpaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. In 2005, they printed 800,000 postcards in Canada “in a campaign that [argued] that the redefinition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples would promote pedophilia, pornography and unsafe sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am con…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…eally mattered to me. Roland Barthes once responded to a Tel Quel questionnaire that to finish writing a book one must be able to imagine it as a physical object. From very early on, I knew that I wanted Bacon’s Lying Figure in a Mirror on the cover; I’m very grateful that University of Chicago Press and my book designer, Matt Avery, made that happen. (There was the darker fantasy of having Mapplethorpe’s Bill King on the cover, but one doesn’t wa…

From Closeted Evangelical to Unapologetic Atheist: A “Faitheist” Manifesto

By Chris Stedman

…ch about things like the cover, but I know that when I’m walking through a bookstore, my reaction to a book’s cover has a lot to do with whether I decide to pick up an unfamiliar book or not. I’m very happy with how the cover turned out. Also, I’d like to share a quick anecdote about the photo used on the cover. I was doing a photo shoot for the cover and the majority of the pictures were of me looking quite serious. The one we ended up selecting…