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To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…f the damage done to his left arm during the crash. It was a hard-won physical rehabilitation that got the lead singer ready to return to the stage for the launch of the “Innocence + Experience” tour in Canada on May 14. Then, just a few days before the tour began, drummer Larry Mullen’s father passed away at the age of 92. Mullen played that first concert in Vancouver after laying his father to rest just one day earlier in Dublin. And in late Feb…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…one that has to do with the widespread religious misreading of the historical moment we face. It seems to me that too many well-meaning faith leaders do not see, or cannot see, that Trumpism amounts to an epiphenomenon. The underlying phenomenon here is patriarchal white supremacy joined to economic violence from above: a toxic combination that has tainted American soil, drenching it in the blood of innocents, from the time the European colonial…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…e church had not previously described his condition as being quite so critical. After Lee Minemann made his announcement, the Livestream’s director cut to a wide-angle shot of the entire congregation. LLDM’s Guadalajara home church fits 15,000 people, and you could see rows of worshippers just folding to their knees in shock. It was like watching an earthquake hit a rock concert. In North Carolina, people started screaming. Adult men fell to the g…

Why Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats

By Sarah Posner

…show last week, I spoke with Lydia Bean, author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity, an ethnographic study of four congregations, two (one evangelical and one Pentecostal) in the United States, and the other two (also one evangelical and one Pentecostal) in Canada. In the book, Bean, who is now a strategist for the PICO National Network, argues that white evangelical political identity in the United States is formed not (as is often the stereo…

In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…oler, and opponent of Obamacare and its “entire failed worldview”—bills himself as an outsider to politics, with an expertise in “business turnaround projects” for such powerhouses as Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey and Company. Even before winning the primary, Sasse had been the subject of favorable profiles in both the National Review (“Obamacare’s Cornhusker Nemesis”) and the Weekly Standard (“A Virtuoso Pol from Nebraska?”). In a reverent…

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…aluable guide to queer folks and allies who, perhaps unwittingly, find themselves on the front line of religious arguments about sexuality and gender. From meditation instructions to old-fashioned encouragement, Bulletproof Faith is a treasure. Recently, on The Huffington Post, Rev. Chellew-Hodge suggested that gays and lesbians should never argue scripture—in particular, the half dozen “clobber verses” that some people interpret against gays. Why…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right by David Neiwert (PoliPoint Press, 2009) On Thursday, September 17, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was moving through a typical press briefing when she was asked about the escalation of violent rhetoric in public discourse. The California Democrat suddenly became uncharacteristically emotional, requesting that people tone it down, and recalling the 1978 assassination of San Francisco M…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…ews, and it’s very fraught. Each side draws on symbolic narratives—I would call them myths—with deep roots in the American past. The big challenge for gun-control advocates will be to summon up a master-myth, a story that takes aim at the heart of the great American love affair with guns—and that will be a tricky shot. First, a tour of the contested terrain. Have Peacemaker, Will Travel Richard Slotkin called 20th-century America the “gunfighter n…

Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality

By Nicole Greenfield

…No, that’s not a quote from Hillary Clinton. It’s Rob Bell, young evangelical superstar and, until recently, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, a West Michigan megachurch he founded in 1999. Speaking yesterday at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, he officially came out in support of marriage equality. “I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs—I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are,…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…just for having and voicing questions, doubts, and differences. We told ourselves to not to be afraid. And even when we were afraid, many of us, we just kept on writing. Even though we knew we were being monitored. And knowing made it no less shameful to see the facts in print. Nor does it diminish the pain of seeing a religion characterized by beautiful audacity in its doctrines and daring in its difference subject its heterodox members to conduc…