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Fun with Facts, or, Yes Virginia, The UCC is still a Trinitarian Denomination

By Daniel Schultz

…to Internet rumors, the tiny, liberal United Church of Christ denomination did not saw off one leg of Christianity’s Holy Trinity when it tweaked the language in its bylaws this week. You might not have known from the furious headlines on Christian websites proclaiming that the 1 million-member UCC will rebuff Christ and God by slashing a reference to God as “Heavenly Father.” Terry Mattingly at GetReligion.org headlined his piece, “Adios to God t…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Perkins was on the GOP committee that drafted that platform last year. In addition to several direct quotes from Sprigg that position same-sex attraction as a sinful choice that can be changed, the authors do not directly critique FRC’s framing of the harmful practice as benign-sounding “sexual reorientation therapy.” Although the article does include boilerplate statements from several leading medical and mental health organizations that have con…

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How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…, then, to see how his words were reinterpreted later, especially in the Middle Ages, to defend the debt of gratitude. So, yes, I understand Christianity to respond to Roman discourses concerning gratitude as debt. And I am persistently vexed when contemporary Christians invert this message and argue the opposite, ignoring Christ’s message that debts should be cancelled and instead arguing that, in various ways, Christianity means learning to be c…

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“Politicized Religion” Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump

By Daniel Miller

…ndidacy of Donald Trump? Stephen Prothero, writing for Politico, recently added his voice to the chorus of analysts considering this question. Why, Prothero asks, are evangelical voters flocking in droves to support Trump, the seeming antithesis of Christian values? As he effectively highlights, Trump curses like a bond trader…mocks the disabled…expresses no need for God’s forgiveness…seems about as familiar with the Bible (“Two Corinthians”) as o…

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Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…f End Times Predictions LOUIS A. RUPRECHT • Jun 6, 2011 Apocalyptically-minded souls—nationalist and Republican, and all-too-knowing virtually to a person—are also ironically the most anti-democratic forces that contemporary Christianity has produced. Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree IRA CHERNUS • Dec 6, 2010 Rather than kowtow to an ancient who treats natural disaster in much the same way as Pat…

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YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…embracing a mishmash of conflicting ideas—Catholicism and reincarnation, Buddhism and crystals, kitschy angels and dreamcatchers—which, if taken seriously as ideas, would not seem to fit together. For Montgomery, however, joining spiritual individuality to social practice meant a special emphasis on individual decisions, individual choices. He didn’t necessarily advocate that people believe a bit of everything, but rather that they take responsibi…

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In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

Coming to the defense of Richard Dawkins is an odd personal pastime for someone that did not grow up in a stifling religious community or for someone without much talent or understanding of the biological sciences, of which I am both. But time and again, I found myself defending Dawkins as a brilliant scientist first and foremost, often assuming correctly that those that disparaged him were unfamiliar with his scientific accomplishments. I have a…

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Rape and Richard Mourdock’s Semi-Omnipotent God

By Sarah Sentilles

…ical, political reason for controlling women is to control reproduction,” adding that, “reproductive freedom, the right to decide for yourself when and whether to have children, is the single greatest determinant of whether you are healthy or not, whether you are poor or not, how long you live, whether you are educated, [and whether you are] able to be active outside the home.” Even our legal system, she pointed out, “penalizes the invasion of pri…

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Why James H. Cone’s Liberation Theology Matters More Than Ever

By Daniel José Camacho

…t of black revolutionaries, they did not see the structure of violence embedded in U.S. law and carried out by the police. Cone asked: “Why didn’t we hear from the so-called nonviolent Christians when black people were violently enslaved, violently lynched, and violently ghettoized in the name of freedom and democracy?” Ferguson, Baltimore, and Cleveland have shown us that not much has changed since the summer of 1967. While Cone proceeded to reim…

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An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men

By Eric C. Miller

…marriage rights should be extended to pairs of same-sex people generally. Oddly, Craig thus bases his opposition to gay marriage on a more basic opposition to discrimination. Gay marriage is unconstitutional, he says, because “it would discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.” Traditional marriage, by contrast, does not discriminate, because it allows anyone—gay or straight—to marry a member of the opposite sex. This argument has been made…

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