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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…enter the final stages of the Pneumatosphere and become one with God. The Spirit of the Earth, Teilhard writes, can only be found once we humans employ evolution to our spiritual advantage and find God in and outside of the world. Teilhard connected evolution and Christianity together in remarkably original ways, weaving together ideas from philosophy, theology, paleontology, biology, and physics in order to create entire systems of history, the…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…enter the final stages of the Pneumatosphere and become one with God. The Spirit of the Earth, Teilhard writes, can only be found once we humans employ evolution to our spiritual advantage and find God in and outside of the world. Teilhard connected evolution and Christianity together in remarkably original ways, weaving together ideas from philosophy, theology, paleontology, biology, and physics in order to create entire systems of history, the…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…ious identity neither advantages nor disadvantages us as citizens. In that spirit, a remarkable group of national organizations are promoting a model Religious Freedom Day proclamation or resolution for state and local executives and legislators. It seeks to be true to the facts of history and the intentions of the Statute, while remaining unburdened by the many contemporary issues related to religious freedom. Those promoting the model resolution…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…“eternal” and a feature of our pre-mortal spirit. Presumably we don’t have spiritual chromosomes—so how can a spirit be biological? Of course, they had to make this clarification because, prior to making it, the Proclamation was clearly consistent with the common transgender narrative that there is a gender mismatch between one’s soul/spirit and one’s body. In fact, the Proclamation seems to beg for the possibility of just such a mismatch. I mysel…

What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis

By Christopher Douglas

…d […] by the superior blood of Jesus,” White “released angels and the Holy Spirit and walls of fire” in order to “burn up every demonic altar” and “renounce every demonic spirit” and “every covenant made with Satan.” https://twitter.com/i/status/1171803697292238853 Like some other fundamentalist supporters, White later attributed the President’s impeachment to “demonic schemes” and “demonic stirrings and manipulations”—literally demonizing the Pre…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…ves at the ballot box, he was a “King Benjamin” at heart. The temporal and spiritual leader of Zarahemla (a Book of Mormon people), King Benjamin gave a long discourse that Mormons quote much like other Christians do the Sermon on the Mount. It includes plenty of hellfire and damnation, but also this: “I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the servic…

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

By Peter Laarman

…mating the difficulties but I really am calling for more trust in the Holy Spirit. Which to me doesn’t mean avoiding responsibility but instead means exercising great care about the change we need—balancing courage with humility, and boldness with gentleness—all fruits of the Spirit. Most essential is making sure we use just means toward just ends, not bullying or demonizing anyone. It should be possible, it must be possible, to employ non-hostile…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at a crossroads in history—we can choose to move forward into new emerging spiritualities, or we can heed the siren sound of the traditionalists calling us back to a romanticized, rigid, past. We are not passive observers, Bass writes, but active participants in shaping what’s to come. Bass herself has been at the forefront of the emergent spirituality movement, with books like Christianity for the Rest of Us (2007) and A People’s History of Chris…

Immigration As A Progressive Game Changer—Without Evangelical Support

By Sarah Posner

…His central tenet of theo-politics: to “repudiate the spirit of Herod, the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah, the spirit of Jezebel.” Rodriguez, like the Catholic bishops, opposes immigration reform with LGBT equality. But a bloc of House Democrats are opposed to letting that critical piece of justice fall away from comprehensive immigration reform. As Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), a supporter of immigration reform with LGBT equality, told me a few weeks ag…

Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…t has nothing to do with science. Whether we are embracing the life of the spirit or running from it, most of us seem to affirm or reject faith too vehemently to claim that we just don’t care. The New Atheists have been so shrill in their attempts to put what they regard as religious Dims in their place that even some other atheists find them abrasive. These critics of the New Atheists might be called New New Atheists. They too have come forward t…