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I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…d imagine leaving the Catholic Church someday. While 10 percent of millennials still consider themselves to be culturally Catholic, many already have left—most often to join the ranks of “nones.” Young adult Catholics at St. Monica see meeting potential partners as a byproduct rather than the goal of young adult ministry. Millennials’ ambivalence challenges young adult ministries to evolve, says Paul Jarzembowski, assistant director for youth and…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…ay dying. These are uniquely evangelical experiences that shaped me, that will always be a part of me. I still long for this kind of community—the kind that journeys together through all the peaks and valleys of life. This is my long way of saying that, even though I’m no longer evangelical, even though the dark side of evangelicalism wounded me and even though so much of evangelical culture and history is problematic, I still believe the rest of…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…e handsome, good lads, and most obedient to their father, so he loved them all equally.” Unsure of what to do, the man had an expert blacksmith secretly make two more identical rings. When he died, each son was secretly given one of the rings, and they soon each made claims to the fortune and the honors that went with it. They soon discovered that all three rings were identical and it was impossible to tell which was the original and which was mer…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…of communicating complicated realities. Annie’s Naturals is owned by General Mills; Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox. Merck has defrauded the government; it has also developed a remarkable cure for hepatitis C. Independent university researchers—and activists!—can falsify data; corporate researchers can do excellent, unbiased work. Monsanto may well be as bad as its detractors assert (tobacco companies certainly proved worse than anyone imagined)….

West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime

By Sarah Posner

…tion to the scourge of drugs and crime in his community. In a video posted online, Williams makes a plea to local ministers for “all the churches within the tri-state” to pray on September 7 for healing of those experiencing substance abuse, for the protection of law enforcement officers, and even for drug dealers. Huntington is a city of about 350,000 that sits near the state’s borders with Ohio and Kentucky. The local news coverage of Williams’…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cted by most Ugandans “on the basis of tradition, culture, religion and moral values.” Many in Uganda perceive homosexuality as “un-African and un-Christian”, a phenomenon inspired by “Western practices.” Homosexuality is often presented in connection to wider threats to ‘authentic’ African values and traditions. Anti-homosexuality activists have presented homosexuals as “an imminent threat… In predominantly Christian Uganda, many find support for…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…, classes, and in some cases, on-campus residential requirements and communal meals, keep seminarians of all ranks in very close contact. I’m tempted to call it crowd-sourcing theology. Only, in this setting one person in this crowd may speak for all. Tensions naturally build, but Episcopalians respect hierarchy. If something goes wrong in paradise, few options for collegial dialogue exist in such a setting. An unevenly balanced, tenuous power str…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…l. In the original essay, Coates concludes by offering a potential historical parallel: reparations paid by the German state following the Holocaust. “Only 5 percent of West Germans surveyed reported feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and only 29 percent believed that Jews were owed restitution from the German people,” writes Coates. Nonetheless, as part of the framework of broader reparations that the Allied Powers obliged the German government…

Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question

By Joseph Laycock

…Christensen, let us hope for a more logically consistent approach to this problem. Ad-hoc definitions and fuzzy logic are the natural allies of hegemony, not justice….

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…process and clarified that she believed the same-sex unions allowed in Brazil already ensure all rights to same-sex couples. Ecuador began allowing same-sex couples to register civil unions last month. Uganda: President Yoweri Expresses Doubts About Renewing Anti-Gay Law President Museveni published an op ed in which he supported legislation to prevent the promotion of homosexuality to minors but said he feared “the possibility of trade boycott by…