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Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…o on the Internet and access to all kinds of information. This is going to change everything. Which do you think will be more likely: a shift from religiosity to atheism, or a change within religious groups towards more liberal interpretation of scripture? I don’t see how the traditional credal models of religion are going to be able to withstand this sort of epistemological pressure. I think that we see trends even in traditional evangelical chur…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…states which have not legalized same-sex unions. Until state legislatures change their statutes, however, the couples must still petition courts case by case. For states to persist in this makes little sense, Supreme Court Judge Olga Sanchez said in an interview on Tuesday. “What’s the point in having invalid norms? You should just change your legislation,” Sanchez said. In all but two of Mexico’s 31 states, gay marriage is still banned under loc…

Will Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?

By Sarah Posner

…ns about the shifting demographics of the country have presumed that these changes will be reflected in our politics. We need look no further than Congress to recognize that there may be strength in numbers, but numbers alone do not automatically translate into strength.” And numbers alone do not automatically translate into weakness. The religious right spent decades building get-out-the-vote operations and candidate recruitment and training grou…

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

By Peter Laarman

…d boundaries in Jesus-like ways. I’m all for Christians calling for public policy change in behalf of the poor, but I’m also all for churches inviting the business leaders in their midst to get to know some poor people—to get to know what being poor in American is really about, which is losing their voice and losing their personhood. Invite the business community leaders to apply their smarts and their hearts to shaping something new, to creating…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…. “It’s tapping into what the No side is talking about, which is a fear of change.” The Catholic Church is “ramping up its involvement in the same-sex marriage debate,” reports Emma Reynolds at news.com.au: Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher sent hundreds of flyers to city churches and published articles available on many church websites encouraging worshippers to volunteer and donate to the Coalition for Marriage. “Vote No in the Postal Plebiscite…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…very bonds of trust and unity that we’ll need most when the time comes for change. The mass and the eucharist simply don’t make sense as the site for holding a boycott. It runs the risk of directing one’s protest against the church’s sacraments, rather than against the human beings who mishandle them. More urgently (and less theologically), however, is what some people’s leaving means for those of us who stay. Ex- or lapsed Catholics are everywher…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…nce in history, according to Gandhi and King: this means the church has to change completely. It could happen. The church is changing and that is why there is so much resistance. Things are so bad in the world with war and poverty and climate change—we are realizing our violence is destroying us and that maybe Jesus was right. I wrote a letter to Pope Francis and I particularly asked him to write an encyclical on the nonviolence of Jesus and to re…

Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

By Jori Lewis

…ries about gaining weight or getting older. The part that is worried about change. And transgender people embody change; they are people who have been bold enough to change everything about themselves. “All Things Come of Thee” Lynn Walker is a transgender priest in the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America. In photos, she sports her priest’s collar, but in her day-to-day work at a transitional housing program for transgender sex workers, she’s all…

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

By Elizabeth Shively

When Linda Kay Klein was a teenager growing up in the Midwest, she dreamed of being cast as a virtuous woman or pious martyr in church plays. Instead, because of her sexually developed body and feminine curves, she was often cast as a demon or Jezebel figure; and once, she writes, she even played sex itself, miming the role in a skit about a Christian resisting temptations. It wasn’t until she was physically emaciated and weak, recovering from su…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…y examining the emergent Southern Holiness movement, I was able to see how changes in theology altered—often radically—the ways in which personal identity were perceived. Examining these changes, both in theology and gender construction, thus demonstrated how important faith commitments are to how the faithful view the world. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South Colin B. Chapell University of Alabama Pre…