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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…p. The evidence: news reports of cries, prayers, and hymns singing throughout the night. But that sounds like devil worshippers to Pat. Aid agencies on the ground are trying to hold things together until urgent rescue and medical assistance can get there. So while Robertson pontificated from his cozy studios in Virginia Beach, do the people of Haiti a favor and donate money to the cause (here is a list of aid groups seeking donations). I hope to f…

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…even say my name, say our name—LGBTQ Catholics? So the door is unlocked, but we’re not permitted to open it? I want to be hopeful, but I, as well as many other Catholics, acknowledge that the changes Francis and other LGBTQ Catholics and allies are pushing for will not be achieved this year. They probably won’t be achieved this century. The door is rusted and rooted—it’s probably going to take more substantial remodeling. The Church moves at a sl…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ly cross many boundaries—geographical, social, ecclesiological, and hermeneutical, but the least significant of these will perhaps be the artificial one the Pope insists remains between the virtual and the real. Acknowledging, exploring, and developing strategies for meaningfully and safely navigating the contours of this convergent, diversely populated landscape seems to me to be especially critical work for believers today. Still, the gracious,…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…We don’t know if the United Church of Christ is called to die as an institution; but if it is, it will do so called by the Holy Spirit to create space for what may emerge for the sake of a movement we committed to being wholly a part of. What we do know is that this impulse towards an organic unity, fully reflective of what was intended by Jesus when he prayed “That they may all be one,” is something that we are still very committed to. This move…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…at a distance of hundreds or thousands of miles. Veteran suicides come to out*]}*number battlefield deaths. Violence shifts even deeper into the realm of psychology: there’s the pervasive fear of a possible strike, existing alongside the lasting legacy of combat. The final chapters of the Hunger Games series concern themselves with trauma and its aftermath, in unusually naked terms (“I still remain struck with the last two chapters. It just was so com…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…on among a lot of people who worked in AIDS. A deep grief,” which he attributed to losses unattended to. “Think about all the un-mourned people who’ve died.” Mitulski said. “And the fact that they died in solitude. We’ve got to deal with it or it’s going to fuck people up for a long time.” In a 1999 sermon, given three years after protease inhibitors changed the course of AIDS in his congregation, Mitulski reminded them that AIDS wasn’t over. AIDS…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…tenement next door is owned by a regular landlord, still residential. Its future is dubious, but Joe was not giving up on its preservation prospects. “See those lintels?” he asked. We looked dutifully above the windows of the tenement. “Those are cast iron. Otherwise, they would have long ago crumbled away. And in all my walks across the city for the last 15 years, I haven’t seen any other cast iron lintels in that Federal style.” The group of six…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…rom my religion, is that supposed to tell you something? I mean, it’s absolutely outrageous.” Sarsour’s observation of the lack of critical visuality by Times editors at the very moment they’re trying to point out the lack of criticality on gun violence by political leaders is remarkable. The Times is not an exception in the implicit, and sometimes explicit, Islamophobic textual and visual rhetoric that has become pervasive in the American public…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…Lutheran, Catholic, Muslim, or atheist friends will call me to complain about this resolution, I find it just as troubling as many of the previous more controversial resolutions. As a Baptist, I tend to use Scripture as a hermeneutical screen for understanding my world and the ethical issues I face. The first text that comes to mind is also known as The Golden Rule found in Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do t…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…ey’re the Mean Girls of our global high school. They deserve one another. But they’re not the adults in the room. So what if you carried a Qur’an? (Actually, I’m happy, but that’s just the small proselyte I have inside of me—think of him as a genie inside a lamp. Plus, that’s not racist, or anthropological. It’s xenobiological.) In hard times of my life, the Qur’an has always been there for me, a source of support and comfort, and Lord knows we al…