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Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…t have the work of scholars who interpret Islam. But scholars tend to be a lot more wary about affirming how much they need people like you to get the word out in a more public kind of way. They need to find a way to work with those who reach out in new ways. I would entirely agree with your activist friend who says that people like me depend a lot on the detailed work that people like you do. Unfortunately, most of the general public will not eng…

God is a Terrifying Monster, and Other Takeaways from the Study of Vampires in Pop Culture

By Jess Peacock

…uch a Dark Thing is actually lifted from a line in Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot, which happens to be my favorite novel of all time. How do you feel about the cover? I designed it, so I guess I have nothing to complain about. I had an idea for the cover, and Wipf and Stock was kind enough to let me take a stab at it. The photo of the creepy abandoned church was one I snapped with my iPhone while on a trip to southern Ohio. I didn’t intend to use it…

“I Think the White Evangelical Church is Dead”: Dr. Russell Jeung on ‘Guilt’ vs. ‘Shame’ and Decolonizing Asian-American Christianity

By Deborah Jian Lee

…doing a more Zen-like Buddhist practice. My research has looked at what a lot of second-generation Asian Americans are doing. For example, Vietnamese-Americans who are Catholics are also developing home shrines, a practice of honoring ancestors. Their approach revealed how they were doing it in a hybridized way—embracing both the traditional and the personally meaningful. On their shrine they’d place something traditional, like just a photo and m…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…’m certainly glad that you made that transition, but there remain an awful lot of Christians who oppose inclusion. How do we deal with them? A lot of the time we hear that those against inclusion are driven by hate and fear, but a lot of people I know in that movement, that’s not the case. I had an uniformed perspective. When you look at the statistics for suicide and depression in LGBT people as a good Christian person you think, “Oh, my God, loo…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…us out until I graduated, I felt like it was a cuteness contest. There’s a lot of pressure for girls to be attractive. Whether it’s spoken or not, and as much as more independent women might want to deny it, there’s a huge pressure in Mormon culture to get married before age 25. So that campus feels like you’re always on display. My non-Mormon friends from high school who went to state universities would go to class in pajamas. They would get do…

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

…Jewish collaboration with evangelicals on some of these bills? It’s not a lot, and it’s often overestimated, but it is still present in some cases. What I argue in my last chapter is that whether those communities understand it or not, when Jews talk about a Judeo-Christian opposition to queerness and transness, they’re participating in this conversation because Christian evangelical White nationalists are bringing it to the national stage in the…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e Religious Landscape, was interesting to me, because that really looked a lot at the structure of a lot of these Pentecostal networks. These leaders aren’t out there trying to create a large organization. They’re not trying to create a Pentecostal Family Research Council [FRC]. They’re just trying to build up their own networks of followers. And so you have all these different network leaders who go to each others’ conventions, who give each othe…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…experience for me. It was also a heartbreaking experience because I saw a lot of things I hoped I wouldn’t see, like kids being pushed to be there by their parents. Then Alan called me and said he wanted to come to the GCN conference—which is tricky because we have members who are survivors of ex-gay ministries who have experienced a lot of trauma. Seeing Alan at our conference would be a very big deal for some folks in a good way and in a harmfu…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…etics of his faith, or by the conclusions he draws from it. I’ve learned a lot from him about philosophy and, actually, a lot about human decency. I’m less enraptured by his dismay about homosexuality. To a reporter, Craig is in many respects the perfect subject. He’s a hugely polarizing cult icon, literally a savior to thousands of teenage evangelical boys who’ve wrestled with doubt, and he’s the atheist crusaders’ most feared enemy. He’s also a…

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch of outlaws look like? What would worship services be like? I’ve given lots of talks about this topic and engaged in conversations during speaking engagements over the past several years. One of the churches I spoke at told me that they had a lot of members who had lost loved ones—which is true of any congregation—and they decided to have an alternative Christmas service. They, of course, had their normal Christmas pageant with all the happy h…