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Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?

By Arielle Levites

…ocal office. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Spiritual Americans aren’t blind or uncaring about the problems in the world. But they believe that an important way, and perhaps even the most effective way, to contribute to a better world is through their own spiritual development. Spiritual Americans believe their personal, seemingly highly constrained actions (for example, how grateful they feel)…

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

For a minute I thought it might work. I thought that mobilizing the palpable Fear of Trump that is rattling the nerves of moderates and progressives might actually do the trick for a Democratic candidate who has the unenviable distinction of being liked and trusted less than any other Democratic nominee in the very long history of her party. Good people have rallied to defeat Satan before (although one never knows to what extent the anti-Satan fo…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…and on. I got to a point where I was able to step back and say, “Hold on a minute. This is not all that Christianity looks like.” I decided I needed to pursue diversity in my coverage. I began to think more seriously or a lot deeper about the choices I was making in terms of reporting and the people I looked to for input on a story. In your letter from the editor in the inaugural print issue, you mentioned how churches pay lip service to racial co…

Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ling to allow workers to shift even the minimal costs associated with five-minute prayer breaks to their employers. Truthfully, while the fact that those requesting the accommodation are Muslim may be more salient, the fact that they are factory workers could be the bigger motivator for the absence of conservative support. The prominent, conservative religious rights law firm The Becket Fund has litigated a small handful of religious accommodation…

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…bley whose response, as Cornel West frequently writes, was: I don’t have a minute to hate, I’m gonna pursue justice for the rest of my life. In our post-Ferguson moment, collective anger has been one of the emotions fueling the protests in Baltimore, New York and elsewhere. Emotions are running high. Rather than flashpoint events, each new tragedy is one of a continuous string doing its work on the human psyche. However, in the midst of all of the…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…iently concerned with the human realities of poverty, but this never for a minute threatened our general understanding that when we became old enough to vote we were morally compelled to be “values voters.” And ours was not the most hardline Christian school in Indianapolis. While Heritage encouraged students to get involved with Billy Graham’s 1999 crusade in our city, Colonial Christian School essentially forbade its students from even attending…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…l September. LGBT rights advocates praised the delay, suggesting that last-minuted amendments to the bill would permit discrimination against gay couples in civil unions. More from In-Cyprus.com: The original bill was proposed by the Interior Ministry in an effort to promote social justice and to bring Cypriot law up to speed with modern times. The bill would allow couples similar rights to those married, meaning it would provide a legal framework…

The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?

By Jeffrey Scholes

…here merely to give him “the strength to endure” the trial of the first 55 minutes of the 60 minute game. Instead, it was “God setting it up, to make it so dramatic, so rewarding, so special.” Reminiscent of the biblical story of Job, Wilson’s God intentionally made things difficult for most of the game only to guide Seattle to the improbable win—all as a test of the main character (Wilson), and presumably for the sake of a dramatic ending. While…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…p the Vatican in all sorts of ways. I would have women priests within five minutes. In the encyclical, which I read pretty closely, he works to maintain that Creator-Creation distinction. He says at several junctions, “We cannot confuse these two things.” Those are the places where I went, “Darn it!” He came this close to a theological revolution in the Catholic church, and he backs off at the last minute. God is with us: what difference does that…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…nce—went along with Mitch McConnell’s plan to sell a pig in a poke. A last-minute appeal to Christian values wasn’t going to change a thing. If it could have, surely it would have provided an easy off-ramp for the hideously unpopular BHCA. The ineffectiveness of common values isn’t even a specifically religious problem, to be honest. John Pavlovitz writes crisply and even more powerfully than Barber in service of the argument that John McCain ough…