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What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today’s ‘throw-away culture’ and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.” This is indeed ironic, as many have already noted, coming as it does just a day after the publication of the pope’s apparently anti-culture war interview. However, in her analysis below Mary E. Hunt expresses her concern that a failure to change doctrine may ultimately yield little or no…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…riesthood versus the actual lived religion that people experience in their day to day lives. I do that through books, talks, and television interviews, but I can’t think of a better medium than TV in order to really drive this point home. I’m a firm believer in the power that television has to change the way people even think. And so I’ve been developing this idea for years, to go around the word and immerse myself in other religious traditions an…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…worldview. But it can jar our sense of progress just to read their words today. When we read Gibbon’s effort to reimagine a centuries-old enemy of the West—alongside, say, the fact that outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann raised more than $1 million in 25 days from a Muslim-themed witch-hunt—it’s easy to ask how such openness could curdle into such paranoia. But that would be too simple. It would miss the ways, small and large, in which Gibbon and his…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…“other.” Jesus, though, didn’t give a fuck what the fundamentalists of his day thought or said. He challenged them on their exclusive interpretation of scripture, broke their laws right in front of them, overturned their corrupt power and economic systems and called them names to their faces. Jesus never tried to conform his life to the religious mores of his day. Instead, he went about doing God’s work of bringing more love into this world. He be…

Rapture Coming, Mark Your Calendars

By Lauri Lebo

…her, that’s merely the day of the Tribulation and Christ’s return. The big day is Oct. 21, 2011. That’s the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” This is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day: On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunda…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…ng, Zionism and not Diasporism is really the “revolution,” even as present-day statist Zionism largely does view cohabitation largely as accommodation—either of choosing to continue to live in the Diaspora when there is a Jewish State, or alternatively the struggle about giving non-Jews full and equal rights in a Jewish polity even if it weakens the “Jewishness” of the state. Instead of bringing Jewish nationalism to the Diaspora (the great accomp…

LGBT Mormons Ask in Historic Temple: “If they could just see us, don’t you think they would change their minds?”

By Joanna Brooks

…ement. Formerly known as the “Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” the Community of Christ split from the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1840s. They never accepted polygamy, and they never followed Brigham Young across the plains to Utah. Today, the Independence, Missouri-headquartered Community welcomes women into the priesthood and openly gay people (including non-celibate and partnered LGB…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…asphemy, profane swearing and cursing, lewdness, profanation of the Lord’s Day, and other dissolute, immoral, or disorderly practices.” And, for all his concern about imported slaves, he had little sympathy for the nascent labor movement at home. Today, as the abolition of modern slavery has become a favorite cause among young evangelicals, Wilberforce has become something of a hero to them; thanks in no small part to a 2006 biopic, Amazing Grace….

Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

By Jori Lewis

…c Church of America. In photos, she sports her priest’s collar, but in her day-to-day work at a transitional housing program for transgender sex workers, she’s all jeans, T-shirts, and blond hair pushed back. She says she doesn’t push her religion on anybody. Just like she doesn’t mention her transgendered status unless she wants to. Walker looks at it this way. Being transgender is not a sin or a pathology; it’s about variety. “Based on science,…

LGBTQ Group to March in St. Patty Parade… Good News, Right?

By Darnell Moore

…our parade. But we’d rather you just wish everybody a happy St. Patrick’s Day and left it with that.’” For some, like Quincey Roberts, a co-founder of Boston’s Hispanic Black Gay Coalition, the restrictive invitation it just not enough. “I applaud MassEquality for their advocacy; however the organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day parade need to know that whether folk in the parade are wearing t-shirts with LGBTQ on them or carrying rainbow flags the…