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Confronting Economic Privilege Together

By Daniel Schultz

…as highlight economic language in the Bible, it would be a valuable public service. Even better would be highlighting the very un-Christian ways violent rhetoric is used in service of economic privilege. Haters and militiamen should not be able to hide behind the screen of faith, that much should be right in the unions’ wheelhouse, as they say. So how about it Mr. Trumka? Sponsor a little tikkun olam and repair the social fabric of the nation at t…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…in McPherson Square where some ODC participants aim to have an interfaith service at around 12:30 each day. These were people seeking solace, communion, and yes, ritual: Merritt offered to anoint people “for wholeness,” with an equal sign on their foreheads, not a cross. He had several takers. Merritt told me that participants at ODC asked for a religious presence, religious ritual, religious gatherings. A woman who came to the interfaith servic…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…ciary objects to the religious character of the organization providing the services; Clarifies that decisions about financial awards must be free from political interference or even the appearance of such interference; Affirms that faith-based organizations that receive Federal financial assistance may use their facilities to provide social services without removing or altering religious art, icons, scriptures, or other symbols from these faciliti…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…olor further calls into question the use of this abusive practice.” As the numbers have grown, so have the numbers of critics, Wired reports, citing a series of “scathing reports and documentaries” released in 2012 by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on…

Ann Romney’s Big Night at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…s do: the acts of service performed for one another. Romney gave plenty of service as a lay pastoral leader for Boston-area congregations. But, as Ann Romney explained, “Mitt does not like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.” (Tagg Romney made a similar point earlier in the day about how Mormons are taught not to brag about acts of interpersonal service. This is an important way…

Progressive Faith Leaders Rally to Keep Heat on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By Alex McNeill

…to tell their own powerful stories of pastoral ministry to lesbian and gay service members who were denied the freedom to serve their country simply because of who they are.” However, as Knox and the faith leaders working with him are well aware, the fight to repeal DADT is far from over: “while Judge Phillips’ ruling is a hopeful development, we must not think DADT will automatically go away as a result of it,” Knox cautioned. LGBT legal expert A…

Republicans Lead the Way
on Repeal of “Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…cked out under DADT. He called DADT a “cloud of fear” that gay and lesbian service members live under – a constant threat of being kicked out if their sexual orientation is revealed. People like Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (and a marine vet, btw), wants to keep that cloud of fear hovering over gay and lesbian service members. He claims ending DADT will violate the religious liberty of chaplains. ”Chaplains will be muzzl…

Does The White House Get It?

By Sarah Posner

…and 43% oppose. In all other religious groups, more than half support open service (except for black Protestants, who favor it 46% to 41%). Even among weekly church attenders (the mysterious gold standard for who the allegedly truly religious are), there’s 49%-40% support for open service. UPDATE: The ruling doesn’t, as Zach Roth suggests at the Upshot, revitalize the culture wars — they’ve never gone away. But the culture warriors quoted here are…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…vice. The rest of the UU protestors began the day at the 6 a.m. interfaith service, in which Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray of the UU Congregation of Phoenix, played a central role and UU singers participated in the joint choir. The more than 200 UUs, some in clergy garb but most in their bright yellow shirts emblazoned with the Standing on the Side of Love logo, were visible in the service and then in the march down the street. Once groups convened do…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…rculated email, and on his blog. London reportedly told the Religious News Service of Haggard’s plans to hold prayer services, “When you think of the ethics of that, it, to me, just defies explanation.” Not to be left out of the media feeding frenzy, other high-profile pastors in the conservative evangelical Christian community quickly piled on. C. Peter Wagner, who co-founded the World Prayer Center with Haggard and is well known for the exorcism…