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Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…This”, both located in the Seattle area not too far from your church, The City Church. A couple of years ago, EastLake made a statement of full inclusion for the LGBTQ community. We did this because we had changed our minds and recognized our need to apologize for previous hurt we’d created. We also realized a need to clarify how this change would impact how we enforced policies. Many members left EastLake since that TIME Magazine article and our…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…st stories are, of Rudy Giuliani coming in to see his daughter playing Sim City, starting to give her advice, and she snarls at him, “Dad, you run your city and let me run mine.” The story is usually told to talk about how complex and accurate Sim City is but it may also tell us something about how certain skills and interests run through family lines. I was especially interested in Zoe’s discussion of why her avatar lacks the ability to instantly…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…had more than enough — including local religious congregations — in the surrounding city and suburbs; and perhaps it was God’s work of creating something out of nothing. While the families who moved there had very little, somehow food and other necessities were abundant at Tent City… Tent City was a project of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, an organization in the lineage of the original Poor People’s Campaign that is also an important part o…

Mennonite in a Midlife Crisis (of Faith)

By Brittany Shoot

…ligious hierarchy to calm the anxiety of praying in public, holding hands around the table at Applebee’s. If a group of young people in matching long skirts walked in, I felt superior that my creator did not frown on my family’s blue jeans. Now that I’m older, I actually feel a kinship with folks who think dancing is sinful. It isn’t that I’ve come back around to loving the Lord. It’s that I’ve heard (or in this case, read) enough stories of compa…

Mormons & Romney Presidency “Dangerous” According to Evangelical Author

By Joanna Brooks

…xample, right now, there are hundreds of thousands of Mormon missionaries around the world… I can guarantee you that they will use Romney or Huntsman as a perfect opening for a conversation. It’s not really a question of Romney using the bully pulpit, but missionaries will use Romney. As an evangelical Christian who has deep concerns about Mormonism, my decision-making matrix runs not just through politics—like can Romney balance the budget—but th…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…er more ossified society, such that those with money—including significant numbers of America’s small Muslim community—were liable to hold onto their wealth even as many around them found it harder and harder to get by. They arrived and became part of the top several percent. I am afraid that many of these folks have confused the circumstances that have enabled their prosperity with their efforts. It undoubtedly takes courage to get up and come ha…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…esidential material, but what matters is that The Response has put a glow around him. Rachel Robbins, who had traveled with her family from Fort Worth, told me she didn’t know much about Perry, but that she decided to make the trip because “the government tries to do all these things. It doesn’t have all the answers. Only the Lord does.” Joyce Thompson, who came to Houston from San Antonio with a friend, echoed a persistent theme to me over breakf…

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

By Susan Henking

…involved in India, I noted the devastating impact HIV and AIDS was making around the world. At the very time the pandemic was escalating outside the United States, new anti-retroviral medicines had become available in our country that helped to mitigate the alarming rate of death. This good news was offset by immense apathy that swept this country, along with a mindset that it was impossible to share this medicine with the impoverished of the worl…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…is movement received its first victory in May 2019, when voters in Denver, Colorado narrowly approved Ordinance 301, a ballot initiative “designed to decriminalize the use and possession of mushrooms that contain psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound.” For the first time since the federal war on drugs, a city effectively decriminalized the use of a psychedelic drug. Motivated by this victory, the movement to decriminalize psychedelics subsequently…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…