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

By Gloria Chough

…dained by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta’s (PGA) Committee on Ministry (COM). In all, becoming an ordained minister in PCUSA took almost 20 years. For the past 11 years, I have been the only PCUSA Korean clergywoman to serve in a paid position in a Korean PCUSA church—out of all 12 Korean PCUSA congregations in metro-Atlanta. In addition to the senior pastor, the Session elders (similar in position to deacons in the Baptist or elders in the Uni…

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ttitude change and care through drama and sports activities. The discovery comes after a torso of a man was discovered earlier in the week—missing its genitals. Pasikali went missing after Uganda’s Martyrs Day early last month. According to AllAfrica.com, the day is celebrated “annually on June 3 in memory of 30 martyrs who died for their faith on the orders of Ssekabaka Mwanga 11 after they refused to denounce the Christian faith.” At a gathering…

Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear

By Bill Berkowitz

…atement. “The marriage of a man and a woman embraces not only their sexual complementarity as designed by nature but includes their ability to procreate. The ideal for the well being of children is to be born into a traditional marriage and to be raised by both a mother and a father. We recognize that there are parents who are single and we laud them for the great sacrifices they make in raising their children.” In a February sermon, Miles McPhers…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…y is the latest in an ongoing attack on their faith. In a post on Townhall.com titled “Ponder Christian Soldiers Google’s Smirking War On You,” Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell decries the choice of a Chávez “doodle”: “Sure, no Christian was mocked, defamed, arrested, or persecuted. And heaven forbid any believer needs internet graphics to help bolster their faith. But hundreds of millions of Christians received the clearly intended message t…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…nia megachurch, in a brief interview with RD. “You have a common phrase, a common idea.” The church put the hashtag on their website. Pastors pushed it on social media. It appeared in New Life’s local TV commercials. People use social media. Marketers use social media. Spreading the good news is, on some level, a form of marketing. As a simultaneous marker of identity and identity marketer, the hashtag plays a neat trick: it lets you affiliate you…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…against wimpy Christians who are more concerned about pastoral care than becoming an army of “warriors” dedicated to bringing about “kingdom rule” on the earth. Don’t despair if you can’t make it to Dallas, you can watch online starting at 7 p.m. Central. But if your kids really like candy, you can comfort yourself with the approach to Halloween taken by Mars Hill church, the authoritarian megachurch phenomenon associated with hipster homophobe Ma…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

…lood on their hands, to shed blood, if it means advancing their privilege, comfort, and security. In the wake of Jan 6, we now also have more visual evidence documenting white willingness to create wide-scale destruction and to undermine basic social functioning for the sake of protecting white supremacy. We are confronted yet again by the sanctity afforded white lives (even when engaging in violent and criminal activity) by the state, in comparis…

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

By Mary E. Hunt

…and a celibate priesthood. Men in the region aren’t interested in making a commitment to celibacy. The few who become priests fly/drive/walk around a huge area to dispense the sacraments like one more product. It’s a hideous theological model—the community gathered in thanksgiving and not the presence of a priest constitutes Eucharist—and a futile struggle for the Roman model. Another issue that arose was the ordination of women as deacons. By all…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…er against similarity, familiarity, and religious mystery. Orsi’s critical compassion toward his subject matter is masterful and serves as an inspiration. What’s your next book? A cultural biography of sorts on Bishop Carlton Pearson, former protégé of Oral Roberts tentatively entitled Pentecostalism Made Pretty. Pearson will serve as a lens to examine the growth of the neo-Pentecostal/Charismatic perspective in the latter part of the previous…

Want Marriage Equality? Follow the Money

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he form of a paper. Same Gender Marriage and Religious Freedom, calls for “common ground” between liberals and conservatives on the issue of marriage equality. On its blog, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gives a great summary of the paper that basically says law, not scripture, should rule the day but religious freedom would be respected: All citizens should have equal access to civil marriage and to the benefits of marria…