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To Pray or to Protest? The Both/And-ness of Black Christianity

By Jamall Andrew Calloway

…ssay on religion in Dust Tracks on the Road that she believed prayer was a sign of weakness and therefore has accepted the terms of the universe. But not everyone has. There are some who believe prayer actually affords strength to the enfeebled. Even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. felt weak, bowed over a cup of coffee at midnight and “prayed a prayer… out loud that night.” Praying does not imply political ineptitude, just as being black, left, and ac…

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…congregational polity embraced by the vast majority of evangelicals was designed exactly to avoid orthodoxy imposed from above, and many of the people signing on to the statement against white nationalism were the kinds who also spoke out against the Southern Baptist Convention imposing litmus tests for congregations based on abortion or support for LGBTQ inclusion. The result of this structure, by design, is that individuals and small groups hav…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…amaria, Idumaea, and Galilee; Palestinian, as an ethnic and genealogical designation; and Palestinian as a political designation (much like how Black liberation theologian James Cone famously argued that Jesus was Black, or like the common protest chant that “we are all Palestinians”). Highlighting the histories, ambiguities, multiplicities, and weaponization of terms that are central to religious studies scholarship will, at the very least, expos…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…Christian minorities in Muslim-majority countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt over recent months and years, but not every part of the world where Muslims and Christians live together is the same. I have lived in West Africa for nearly three decades and in Nigeria for eleven of those years. Hirsi Ali, who has no particular expertise on Nigeria, has painted too lurid a picture of the current Christian-Muslim tensions in that vast country, …

Goldstone 2.0: God Plays No Favorites

By Jill Jacobs

…dom. In the biblical liberation narrative, the Israelites have barely left Egypt when God warns them against mistreating sojourners and other vulnerable populations. “If you afflict them in any way,” God says, “if they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.” (Exodus 22:23) In explaining this verse, the medieval commentator Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) imagines God saying, “I save every person ‘from the hands of those who are stronger tha…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…a back page story) on this initiative, and gave a brief quotation from the signatories, twenty of whom were previous winners of the prestigious Israel Prize: Their statement, timed for Passover, said that: “The land of Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people where its identity was shaped,” the statement begins. “The land of Palestine is the birthplace of the Palestinian people where its identity was formed.” It goes on to say that now is the…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…gs. The Muslim Brotherhood says they do not want to enforce Islamic law in Egypt. What do Kentucky and the Netherlands have in common? An Ark problem. Holy shirking brains, Batman! A new study links religious experiences, such as a conversion or “born-again experience,” to atrophy in the hippocampus. In Brooklyn, a recently ordained rabbi converted to Judaism after growing up the daughter of a Lutheran pastor. Elsewhere in Brooklyn, a rabbi has be…

God’s Chosen Tweeters?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…l networking aficionado qualities: * We floss after every meal! * We freed Egypt! * We’re grounded, and well integrated, intuitive, not too full of ourselves, yet fully realized in the fabulous glow of our authenticity. Gosh we’re swell! * We’re God’s chosen Tweeters! Finding God on Facebook Ah, God. Was there any good news for religions in the Pew report? Certainly, the report makes clear that the vast majority of believers and seekers of every a…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…e crowd as they shouted out. It was a moving moment.” “Dressing It Up in Designer Jeans and Hair Gel” Many LGBT people I spoke with had largely positive experiences at Wild Goose. Volunteer Brian Ammons, pastor of Raleigh’s Trinity’s Place, said he felt “a call to continue in conversation” with non-affirming individuals, and found the experience encouraging. He expressed respect for what he called the organizers’ “sincere attempt to create spaces…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

Inspired by protests over the summer organized through social media in Egypt and Madrid, upwards of a thousand demonstrators gathered on September 17 to “Occupy Wall Street” in a rally loosely coordinated by the activist media organization Adbusters. Hundreds lingered through the weekend and continued the protest as the New York Stock Exchange opened low on Monday, September 19 over worries about the wider impact of the Greek debt crisis. Demonst…