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‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…o one thing: intimidate us into changing how we practice our faith.” First United Church of Oak Park, a mostly white, suburban Chicago congregation with more than 600 members, is affiliated with two mainline protestant denominations—the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Church of Christ. The UCC has been on edge since credible threats against “liberal churches” were picked up by federal law enforcement in the run up to the anniversary of J…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…ly sputter when you counter with that argument! As an active leader in the United Methodist Church who, as you mentioned, has served as Chair of the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund Committee. How do you see your own path or that of the Methodist Church in this regard? Or, as has been asked elsewhere—what would Wesley do? United Methodists are no different than other Christians. We struggle and fail to deal with issues of human sexuality too. The…

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

…to remain willfully ignorant of what the world witnessed—and not just the Arab world—when those shells landed on hospitals, refugee camps and UN facilities, and when the United States did all it could to block all international action to restrain and condemn the Israeli actions. The choice for progressive Christian leaders today is not between guilt-ridden silence and full-throated denunciation of Israeli policy and Israeli aggression. It is cert…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h American countries is expected to propose creating a new position at the United Nations devoted to investigating human rights violations against LGBTI people. The position — a special rapporteur, or investigator — would answer to the United Nations Human Rights Council, which is beginning its next session of work in Geneva next week. Bermuda: Chief Justice OK’s referendum on civil unions and marriage Chief Justice Ian Kawaley gave a final go-ahe…

Evangelicals Call Christian Zionist Uncritical “Support” for Israel “Appalling” and “Intolerable”

By Sarah Posner

…m, is a dangerous insult.” As I was writing this, an email from Christians United for Israel (representing a big chunk of Gushee and Stassen’s target audience) arrived in my inbox, urging followers to “stand with” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will be “entering a lion’s den” at the United Nations. “We want him to stand proudly knowing that millions of Christians stand with him. We want him to feel our hands holding up his arms. We…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…n between this Church and other bodies, there shall arise a more inclusive United Church.” 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 pray…

Blessed Be the Warmakers

By Svend White

…g the globe. Nor has the UN in recent memory imposed its own leader on the United States over the popular will, as did the United States itself when it essentially overruled the world by ousting Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali over petty political grudges in 1997. If we must resort to conspiracy theories, let’s at least follow the money trail and look at who really wields power today. If a Satanic New World Order is indeed under way, surel…

Faith and Civil Liberties Groups Pushing Back Against Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…ties with each other. We will counter the misperception, including in the Arab and Muslim worlds, that the United States is a nation defined by the widely covered images of the marginal few who would burn a Qur’an, rather than by a proud and longstanding tradition of religious freedom, tolerance and pluralism. In communities across the United States, this project will not only serve as a model for tolerance and cooperation and promote local faith…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…l arguments. These mechanisms do not merely reinforce this identity in the United States. They are part of the prevention messages exported by the United States to other countries under PEPFAR. For example, True Love Waits, the abstinence support model developed by American evangelicals, has become the predominant governmental HIV prevention strategy for young people in Uganda. This strategy is funded through PEPFAR and the initiative is spreading…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…dgets from the government. Then there’s the idiosyncratic situation in the United States whereby health coverage, for a lot of people, comes through their employer. Employers who provide health coverage in the U.S. aren’t doing charity. In the United States it’s how most people get health coverage. That’s the system we have. Catholic institutions employ non-Catholics, and contraception is a part of basic health care for most people, for good reaso…