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“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time and I hope that my regret for the long journey is clearly communicated in the book. I am sorry it took me so long to put it all together. It’s like being in a movie where someone is trying to crack a safe and there’s six numbers and you have to get all six numbers right for the safe to open. I think that’s what’s happened for me. Finally, all six numbers came up and I was able to open the safe and I could see this in a new way. Tha…

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…trayed in The Dark Knight? There already are. Just look on YouTube for the number of videos where teens are dressing up as and imitating the lines of the Joker. Even more seriously, however, there have been crimes committed since the film’s release where the criminals have dressed in Joker makeup. The film would likely not be dangerous for those well-grounded in morality; but for the many in today’s world who have not received the moral training t…

Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover?

By W. Scott Poole

…w production values whichever you choose. Not unlike the Hell Houses, they manage to put together the strangest and most unappealing images of heaven (in this next clip be sure to catch the guy in the Michigan jersey getting a bear hug from Jesus at 2:04) and the most infantile images of hell you can imagine. It is true that the messages are often much more implicit, suggesting that the Judgement House phenomenon can be interpreted very much an ou…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…ative-reality right”? In Andersen’s account, these ideas sort of enter the American milieu, where they cook in the stew of American individualism until they become adopted by conservatives in the 1990s. But this is a weak account of intellectual influence. As far as we know, conservative thought leaders never seriously engaged with the likes of the postmodernists Andersen cites, such as Foucault, Baudrillard, or Feyerabend, except to condemn. To g…

How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma

By Rebecca Epstein-Levi

…l and harmful, because the more we stigmatize, the less we can effectively manage and treat STIs. And that hurts people. With more serious infections, like syphilis and HIV, it can kill people. Where is the moral wrong, then: in having contracted the infection, or in creating a culture that impedes people’s ability to get treated? To be sure, the rabbis weren’t perfect, and their model doesn’t solve every problem with STI stigma. They were a patri…

Does Donald Trump Have a Catholic Problem?

By Patricia Miller

…trates the campaign’s overall tone-deafness when it comes to Catholics: https://twitter.com/katrinapierson/status/148442868065894400 Of course, a strong Trump showing in the first two-thirds of the primary calendar would largely make the Catholic-leaning later states a moot point. But if Ted Cruz manages to peel off enough of the evangelical vote from Trump to keep himself, and Rubio, in the race through April, the Northeast and Midwest will have…

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

By Chrissy Stroop

…g as progressive Christianity, a hot take that, many noted, erased African American and Latinx liberation theologies. While the line between a valid call-out and toxic cancel culture may not be a perfectly bright one, Finch quickly showed a willingness to listen and learn but was nevertheless “canceled” by many. She certainly did not deserve the barrage of harsh criticism that carried on for days. This brings us to a bizarre episode featuring the…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…) virus has spread; and the intrusion of religious considerations into the management of the pandemic is by no means unique to that country. India too, with its population of close to a billion people and its extraordinary religious diversity, is struggling with how to manage the situation without offending religious sensibilities. Health authorities in each Indian state are monitoring the spread of the disease and any resultant fatalities. In the…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…ortal, the fact that we die. You spoke of your parents’ faith. They didn’t manage to pass it along precisely… No, but they were believers to the end, as I said. My father was a very learned man, self-taught, very smart. My mother was a simpler soul, didn’t graduate high school, and was quite a contrast, their two minds. Sometimes I think I’m a blend of the two of them: a little of my dad’s smarts and wisdom and some of my mother’s simplicity too….

Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King’s dream? Or something else? It is certainly not the American dream as conceived by the founders. They believed the nation was a “new order for the ages.” A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating “a distinct species of mankind.” This is known as American exceptionalism. But when asked at a 2009 press con…