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Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…revalence and resonance of the castle doctrine; the rapid growth of anti-vaxxing ideology among liberal elites; not to mention a broader and rapidly metastasizing libertarianism: all point to the reality that in a culture still suffused with a twisted Calvinism, it’s personal sovereignty that matters most. There’s a rich irony in this, of course, in that in John Calvin’s original formulation, God alone is sovereign. But this is a confusion that ca…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…declare having same sex relations and reveals intimate details of their sexual lives. Mexico: Marriage on march with strong public approval; report on trans The legislature in the state of Colima approved marriage equality. A survey released this week found that 65 percent of Mexicans supports the president’s proposal to make marriage for same-sex couples a right guaranteed in the country’s constitution. See journalist Rex Wockner’s site for ongo…

A New Year’s Health Care Sobriety Test for Religious Progressives: It’s Not Obama

By Peter Laarman

…my personal lament. In this respect I, too, allowed my hopes for the young new chief executive to override my realism about the core of his political identity and about how politics is really played these days. But honeymoons, even for dewy-eyed liberals, have a short half-life. Maybe it was the Nobel speech and the Afghanistan surge. Maybe it was the pitiful wrist slap given to the big bankers—a “woodshed” experience deftly avoided by the bosses…

Old Testament ‘Bad,’ New Testament ‘Good’: A Dangerous (and Mistaken) Assumption

By Peter Laarman

…s undoubtedly the Big Breakup that forms the backdrop to all four gospel texts: the bitter rift between first century Jesus followers, Jews and Gentiles alike, who claimed messiah status and actual divinity for Jesus, and the great majority of Jews who said thanks-but-no-thanks to that idea. Thus we find, most notoriously in the Fourth Gospel, a number of set pieces aiming to show dramatic direct conflict between Jesus and “the Jews.” This Big Bre…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…f thousands of the city’s black and poor residents. The massive pre-storm exodus from New Orleans of the more resourceful sectors of the population, and the closing or distancing of most institutional operations, are dynamics reminiscent of the large scale suburban flight, economic divestment, and governmental indifference experienced within many American cities—and especially within the poorer neighborhoods of those cities in the past one hundred…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…ll believes that homosexuality is wrong (“we have a conviction that same-sex sexual expression is incompatible with a healthy Christian sexual ethic”), it seems that they may be moving toward the position of the Catholic group Courage, which supports gay Catholics in living celibate lives, and away from the ex-gay fantasy of a complete, God-supported redirection of erotic desire. Can an Ex-Gay Organization Really Change? This came at the end of a…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…s less as a welcome reminder of his true self than as nagging. Through a mix of personal moxie and unbelievable luck, Roose had quite the semester. For spring break, he joined a busload of Liberty students on a missionary vacation, “witnessing” to their godless peers at Daytona Beach, Florida. He held his own in Bible studies and received counseling for his masturbation habit. And, on behalf of the school newspaper, he landed a rare one-on-one int…

How an Ancient Story of Renegade Rabbis Caught With Black Market Technology Can Help Us Navigate ChatGPT’s Apocalyptic Aura

By Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

…the clear prohibition articulated in this passage, some scholars were so excited about the promise of a new technological frontier for their material they committed their ideas to writing. By applying the technology of writing to rabbinic teaching and learning, their own ideas would be better preserved, and future generations would gain access to unprecedented riches of learning, as each new scholar’s wisdom could be passed on to new communities….

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…ts reassurance that the Catholic church will stand up for them. In a Daily News op/ed, Dolan described immigrants as “a gift” to New York and stated that Trump has shown a lack of concern for immigrants. And New York’s Archbishop has said nothing about deportation. Dolan’s language has indeed been mild compared to other Catholic leaders in America. Cardinal Blaise Cupich in Chicago recently told priests that if I.C.E. arrives at a church without a…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…in the last decade. We have Schultz to thank for including a more robust examination of interactions between and among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in the sagas of the age. Schultz’s study leads to a series of questions that, we hope, he and other scholars will address. For instance, did the tri-faith concept lay the foundation for Americans to view Islam as “evil” or “primitive” because it was not associated with democracy? Since tri-faith t…