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Presidential Debate: We Are All Socialists Now

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…w proposal we heard this evening was rolled out here, in the first five minutes, as point number two. And Senator McCain repeated it all evening long, lest we miss it. He now proposes a state-sponsored re-definition of the current housing market, such that the federal government will buy up an enormous number of imminent foreclosures (how?), mandate a new evaluation of the real value of these homes (how?), then enable homeowners to re-negotiate th…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ficantly more supportive of churches and other houses of worship speaking out about political issues and political leaders talking more often about religion.” Among those who “see religion’s role in society as positive,” the report found, support for churches endorsing candidates jumped 10 points, from 27% in 2010 to 37% this year. While the results generally found a “widening” divide between the religious affiliated and non-affiliated (or “nones”…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…s religion as a structure of authority, with a strict parent at the helm. But outside of those extreme examples, a larger sense of weakening ties to institutional religions means that it is increasingly a challenge to keep children interested in faith. The Benedict Option’s emphasis on withdrawal is Dreher’s solution. While statistics about the number of families who homeschool for religious reasons can be hard to find, it’s clear that beyond Dreh…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…n civilization was internally sophisticated, democratic, and progressive; but it was simultaneously a brutal and expanding fortress, which pillaged the darker nations, controlled their resources, and demonized their cultures to justify its hegemony. Thus the West is rarely, if ever, what it claims to be. Nor was this sentiment exclusive to Muslims; going to Sherman Jackson’s point, it was much more a product of colonialism and imperialism—when ask…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…gravel lot down the road waiting to clear customs. If we extrapolate that number out to the village as a whole and assume that over one-third of the women in this small town in rural Zambia are HIV-positive, the enormity of the HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa becomes clearer. What intricate, invisible social networks expose the women in Kazangula to HIV disease? And what role do the truck drivers waiting in a days-long queue play in those netw…

RDPulpit: I Am Not A Number: Gays and Lesbians and Opinion Polls

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…asure you give will be the measure you get back” (Luke 6:38b). It’s not about rights, it’s about how we relate to one another and whether we’re willing to treat others as we wish to be treated. In short, what we need is a frame that generates not pity or sympathy for gays and lesbians, but empathy and compassion. Compassion, at its core, means to “suffer with.” If all Americans can be made to understand the suffering—the true suffering of real, li…

Paul the Pluralist: Jesus’ Number Two Was Not a Christian

By Pamela Eisenbaum

…inspiring, and that the second most important person in the history of Christianity articulated this vision of redemption offers Christians an authoritative resource for thinking about religious pluralism….

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…ith our theology. This will require us to not only draw new conclusions about sexuality but will force [sic] to consider new ways of being sexual.” Although I am unsure exactly what Doug meant by this last statement for safety’s sake I would strongly recommend that all farmers, particularly those surrounding Minneapolis, lock up their sheep at night effective immediately. Gimlet-eyed readers who followed the link may have noticed that they couldn’…

Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bortion’s 41 percent response was “protection of religious liberty.” The “butter” of the usual “bread and butter” issues of the religious right—same-sex marriage—had slipped from the number two position drawing the concern of a paltry seven percent of “value voters.” Does this mean that there is a sudden uptick of support for marriage equality among “value voters”? No. It certainly doesn’t mean that. The event was rife with anti-gay rhetoric inclu…