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Unfair Treatment of Women Clergy in the PCUSA and Presbyterian Korean Community

By Gloria Chough

I may leave the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in the future. Whether I do or not, I believe that my story—the story of many Korean clergywomen within the PCUSA—must be told. Just as African Americans, other ethnic minorities and white women have struggled to find their place within our denomination during some of the most racist and sexist periods in our history, so now are the women of the Presbyterian Korean community. I arrived in America in 199…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Update II: Go here for full hoax story. Update: Box Turtle Bulletin is now reporting that despite several different sources on this story, it may well not be true. Yes, a young man was murdered, but his connection to Integrity Uganda is now being questioned. Sources in the U.S. and Uganda now tell me that the young man in question was not connected with Integrity Uganda, and that Bishop Christopher Senyonjo did not make the statement attributed t…

Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear

By Bill Berkowitz

It’s the dog days of August, yet the campaign over Proposition 8 in California, which, If approved by voters, would overturn the 4-3 May decision of the California Supreme Court allowing same sex marriages, is reaching epic proportions. During a late-July phone call to pastors gathered at more than 200 sites in California, Arizona and Floridaâ€” three states with anti-same-sex marriage initiatives on their ballots in Novemberâ€”a handful of natio…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

Much to the dismay of conservative political pundits, bloggers, and the like, Google’s “doodle” for its homepage on March 31 in honor of Cesar Chávez’s 86th birthday also happened to appear on Easter Sunday, one of the most sacred days for Christians the world over. Responses ranged from mild disappointment to vows to replace Google with search engines like Bing (which decorated its homepage with Easter eggs). But what underlies nearly all the co…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

Easter is the most Rocky-like story in the Christian canon. There’s blood, a sudden reversal, and finally a moment of triumph. Every time the story seems to end, some miracle prolongs the action. Which is why, when they were looking for the perfect hashtag with which to brand their 2015 Easter festivities—something colloquial, a bit ambiguous, memorable, and aspirational—New Life Church went with #itaintover. “I think it’s unifying,” said Tina Da…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

Pat Robertson isn’t the only evangelical leader who frets about all the kids dressing up in satanic garb for Halloween, or as he calls it, the “festival of the Devil.” Mission America’s Linda Harvey recently argued that the holiday’s satanic origins explain its appeal to “the LGBT world.” Here are a few options religious right leaders would like you to consider. Jesusween. The folks at www.Jesusween.com are hoping to turn Halloween into a “Christ…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what happened that day. But as I watched the storming of the capital—replete with white supremacy symbols, Christian symbols, Trump iconography, and images of weapons—I had an overwhelming sense, not of shock, but of inevitability. Nothing I was seeing reflec…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

The recent Synod in Rome, the “Special Assembly for the Amazon of the Synod of Bishops,” focused on the topic “Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology” with controversial and less than optimum results. The outcome was not a surprise because church-related discrimination created a costly missed opportunity for a dying planet. If the Catholic house were in order, its impact on climate change would increase exponentially. The…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

Ten Questions for Jonathan Walton on Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism What inspired you to write Watch This? My interest in African American religious broadcasting came from what I perceived to be the gaps in the fields of African American religion and Religion, Media, and Culture. For the most part, scholars of African American religion in general and black theology in particular theorize about Afro-Protestantism in…

Want Marriage Equality? Follow the Money

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Back in 1994, fifty-five fundamentalist Christian leaders met at the Glen Eyrie conference center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The goal, according to author and activist Mel White in his book Religion Gone Bad was “to plan their ‘short-term’ solution for the problem of lesbian and gay Americans.” The group represented about 40 state anti-gay organizations with one goal, according to White: “to prevent homosexuals from ever being recognized as…