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A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…act (or don’t) on a daily basis. In the end, I think, movements for social change seek to transform everyday life so it becomes safer, less oppressive, and more joyful for more people (and other creatures). So it makes sense that the roots of a radical ethic for social change can be found in the best parts of our everyday lives. This relates to the social role of religion. Religion has often provided this “second language,” as Robert Bellah and hi…

Faith in the Future is No Faith at All: Disney’s Weak Theology

By Scott MacDougall

…reth’s ministry as “the kingdom of God” somehow enters into the present to change at the root how we relate to one another, the perfection longed for by those with faith in the future will remain a pipe dream, a utopian mirage. But this is exactly the the vision of global flourishing on offer in Tomorrowland. Creative ingenuity and technological advance are the drivers of a better—even paradise-like—world. Even when such advances also lead to Tomo…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…ity. But it doesn’t mean that the scientific consensus on man-made climate change is anything but clear. While global climate-change talks were taking place in Copenhagen earlier this month, conservatives and right-wing media outlets crowed that the emails raise doubts about the validity of the science. And just as fundamentalist Christians deny evolution, many of them also deny climate change. Matt Frei of BBC World News America provides an inter…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…on—that being gay is a choice. What happens when these same members discover otherwise? There is often a real sense of betrayal when the world is discovered to be something other than that promised by a trusted religious leader. “We cannot change; we will not change,” Elder Packer declared. Didn’t we hear something similar from another apostle during the Church’s struggle with the issue of blacks and the priesthood? At the end of the talk, the “be…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ransgender, we all have the moral responsibility to speak out. Stand up to change the world. Confront unreasonable pride, prejudice, cruelty and indifference,” Chow, the federation’s secretary general, told the crowd. Organisers said 8,900 took part, up from their estimate of 5,200 last year. Police said 4,700 people attended at the peak of the march, compared with 4,500 last year…. A spokesman for the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau sa…

The Untold Story of Religious Support for Gay Rights

By Rebecca Alpert

…on, or boiling a kid in its mother’s milk for example). We have pointed to change over time and proved that the Hebrew and Greek terms in Biblical texts couldn’t possibly have relevance to LGBT relationships today. We have examined those texts closely to uncover what they might have meant in context. And we have asserted that values in the Bible (like “love your neighbor”) contradict the message of hatred towards gays that’s implied by the Bible-t…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…e many others, O’Connor has chosen not to leave the church but to work for change. Her most dramatic call for change came in 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II as protest against child sexual abuse on Saturday Night Live. She and others have pinpointed one source of the problem: canon law, which does not require cases of abuse to be reported to the police. Instead, a culture of extreme secrecy has prevailed, codified in Vatican nor…

Protesting the Pope’s (Not Yet Released) Environmental Encyclical? Check Your Doctrine

By Kevin M. Lowe

…y scientists and the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).” That level of consensus, they stated, required taking action. But that action needed to be complex and ecological in nature; in a 1991 pastoral statement called “Renewing the Earth,” the bishops had already written that “the web of life is one….Our tradition calls us to protect the life and dignity of the human person, and it is increasingly clear that this…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…verse. Of course, the Doctor does change the past; his presence in history changes it—even if that change causes it to be how we already know it to be. I’ve gotten a sense that there’s a semi-eternal aspect to Time Lords, that part of them exists outside of time, allowing them to make changes that other, temporal beings wouldn’t be allowed to make. But mere humans don’t have that ability. Thus, an answer to the question posed by James McGrath in o…

You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion

By Kathryn Lofton

…ined the relationship between religion and consumption to the discourse of change. I repeatedly showed that this connection is there—that when you observe a consumer practice it is rarely far from a claim of transformation. But again, I never wager an explanation as to why. In Consuming Religion, I discovered answers to both dangling problems in the conjoined histories of families and corporations in the United States. Not only how so many busines…