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Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…h Gnanasara, but insisted that their agendas were separate. Nonetheless, a number of news reports claim that Wirathu’s 969 and Gnanasaara’s BBS movements are in league, and there are reports that Wirathu has been in contact with Buddhist monks from Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia, where pitched battles have been taking place between Buddhists and the Muslim majority in that locale. Wirathu said it wasn’t just Buddhists who were concerned…

Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…lity” the way so many of us do: easy and light. Escapist. Ideally, with pupusas on the side. A long car ride is fine, as long as it’s air-conditioned. Josh arrives at the Kansas home of his son Colton’s adoptive family, desperate after a series of losses. He is primed for a come-to-Jesusland moment, even if he takes it back almost instantly. Ali, tripping on gematria and laughing gas, has concluded that she wants to write about “intersectionality…

Christian-Bashing Air Force Officer Story is Just That

By Rob Shryock

…who bothered to reach out to Colleen McGee, the military public relations contact on this issue, would have figured this out. But when I called her, I learned that I was only the fourth reporter to do so. “Normally, for a story like this, I’d expect about forty calls,” said McGee. McGee cleared up some basic facts: first of all, Phillip Monk was not “officially fired”; rather, he was transferred back to his field (medicine), a transfer he had bee…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…not religious, and the art world is not religious. The people I came into contact with while shooting the images were all super friendly and excited about the project when I explained what I was doing. People I know who were raised in the church, but have since turned against it, were totally freaked out by it. They found it creepy. But in terms of actual religious people, I haven’t seen that much reaction yet or had those conversations. Are you…

Richard Land, Under Investigation for Plagiarism, Wages Religious Freedom War With Bishops

By Sarah Posner

…alifornia) Diocese told Kevin Clarke of America, “The bishops that I am in contact with in California are strong supporters of the importance of defending and strengthening religious liberty in our country,” but “I do think there are probably some different concerns with how it is being done.” Blaire “worried that some groups ‘very far to the right’ are trying to use the conflict as ‘an anti-Obama campaign.’” No kidding. Land, the ethically-challe…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…my teenage acne is on display. My head is turned to the side to avoid eye contact with the camera. I hated having my picture taken. Still do. I don’t remember the day this picture was taken, but I remember how I felt at fourteen: awkward, nervous, uncomfortable. My face is round and chubby and despite my baggy clothes, I can tell my body hasn’t left childhood behind. I look like a child. I was a child. * When I was fourteen my high school teacher…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…de Los Ángeles, the world’s first and only LGBTQ mariachi band. I made eye contact with Natalia Melendez as she sang, “Cucurrucucú Paloma,” a Mexican huapango-style song about love, loss, and pain. Tears began to pour down my face and I said to myself: “My people…” As a theologian, I may not have the words to make sense of these events right now, but I do have the vocabulary to talk about what these spaces mean to queer Latin@s, like myself. An el…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…hours with them on the phone. Then, after Jesus was a no-show, I stayed in contact with them—the ones who would talk to me, anyway—over the following days and months, checking back in to see how or if their thinking had changed. I learned a lot about the seductive power of radical belief, the inscrutable vagaries of biblical interpretation, and how our minds can shape reality to fit a narrative. I also learned that you don’t have to be nuts to bel…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…quirements and communal meals, keep seminarians of all ranks in very close contact. I’m tempted to call it crowd-sourcing theology. Only, in this setting one person in this crowd may speak for all. Tensions naturally build, but Episcopalians respect hierarchy. If something goes wrong in paradise, few options for collegial dialogue exist in such a setting. An unevenly balanced, tenuous power structure makes the Dean a fulcrum between the Board (his…

Do Animals Have Religion?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…hey seem to be reaching out across the specificities of species and making contact with us humans, even offering, Siebert intimates, something like “forgiveness” for killing off their ancestors. One finds, here as elsewhere, an underlying question: If animals like non-human primates (see the inspiring work of Jane Goodall and her followers) and cetaceans have shown themselves to have highly developed communication skills (possibly higher than homo…