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From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…nnect with other clergy persons. Over the past 18 months, I’ve developed a number of relationships with people who contact me because they find themselves in a similar situation. They ask questions, I don’t push. I’m simply a listening ear…someone safe for them to talk to. What was the response to your coming out as an atheist? An enormous number of Christians have threatened to do physical harm to me. Many others have been kind in their response…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…ltural products in ways that make them easier to contain, own, discuss, or sell. It is the scholar’s place, in my view, to acknowledge those claims among her subjects, to analyze them as culturally, historically, and politically situated claims, and to critique her subjects as engaged in collective strategies to preserve social systems. In the analysis of yoga and cultural appropriation, this means analyzing them as cogs in the economic and social…

SCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision

By Daniel Schultz

…nder a rock recently, Masterpiece involves a Colorado baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple due to his religious beliefs. He was substantially fined by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but with the help of the ADF, appealed the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, where he ultimately emerged victorious. The decision was “narrow” in the sense of being limited in scope and more concerned with procedure than setting…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…ltural products in ways that make them easier to contain, own, discuss, or sell. It is the scholar’s place, in my view, to acknowledge those claims among her subjects, to analyze them as culturally, historically, and politically situated claims, and to critique her subjects as engaged in collective strategies to preserve social systems. In the analysis of yoga and cultural appropriation, this means analyzing them as cogs in the economic and social…

Special Coverage: Dispatches From Pray Vote Stand 2022

By PRA Staff

…rber writes: “In an era of widespread uncertainty, Christian Right leaders sell meaning and purpose, belonging, and comfort to frightened and lonely people in order to enlist them as foot soldiers in a dreadful cause.” For their part, having observed that the crowd “laughed quickly and loudly at any joke at trans people’s expense,” Greenesmith closes with a haunting question: “Standing among the laughter and the disgust in that hall, I felt the gu…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…eat amount of freedom—and not just religious freedom. There was freedom to sell anything you want, to buy anything you want, to be anything you want, to believe anything you want, and to create any kind of religion you want. You may be persecuted for that, as the Mormons were, but if you’re willing to take on that risk, go nuts! So, yes—because we could, we did. That’s part of it. But I’m skeptical that this fully explains America’s peculiarity. I…

East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

…market, East Lansing’s argument that simply allowing Country Mill Farms to sell its merchandise within city limits enables discrimination is a tenuous one. (In the big picture, that might be true: money earned by the Tennes family at East Lansing Farmers Market would presumably be used in the operation of the farm’s event venue, which does enforce a discriminatory policy.) But because Country Mill Farms (and its event venue) is located in neighbor…

A 14-Point Rebuttal to The Nashville Statement from a Straight Cis Christian Man

By Eric Reitan

…). The Christians who disagree with you cannot be dismissed as nothing but sell-outs to secular culture. In my book, The Triumph of Love: Same-Sex Marriage and the Christian Love Ethic, I argue that Christian support for same-sex marriage flows from nothing less central to Christian faith than Christ’s command that we love our neighbors as ourselves. I’m hardly the only Christian LGBT ally who thinks so. You may think we’re wrong, but if so you ne…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ing that not only heals indigenous people but heals everyone, and then you sell it back,” said Pasquale Mateus, as groans of disappointment rippled across the room. Sure, some in the room felt vindicated by these studies, but they didn’t need them to affirm what they already knew, they said. Attendee Chantelle Todman Moore, an Afro-Caribbean life coach, was trained in classical music from an early age. But as an adult, she claimed the djembe as he…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…s, eight if you count Mike Pence—went along with Mitch McConnell’s plan to sell a pig in a poke. A last-minute appeal to Christian values wasn’t going to change a thing. If it could have, surely it would have provided an easy off-ramp for the hideously unpopular BHCA. The ineffectiveness of common values isn’t even a specifically religious problem, to be honest. John Pavlovitz writes crisply and even more powerfully than Barber in service of the a…