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Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense

By Mary E. Hunt

…there was/is such a course teaching young men (I was the only women in the class and I did not receive the warmest welcome on record) how to handle confessions. The priest professor role-played a variety of penitents while the students took turns acting the part of the priest. One young man decomposed in the chair when the penitent confessed her alleged sin of oral sex. (Note the priest could not bring himself to act out a man who engaged in oral…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…Panama City, where the Muslim community is starkly divided along race and class lines. Lebanese Muslims work predominately as businesspeople in the lucrative Free Trade Zone, one of the largest free trade ports in the world. In the city center, many residents are descendants of West Indian laborers on the Panama Canal throughout the twentieth century. The city has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country. Every year, a group of black Mu…

Fulfilling the Dream? Complicating the Narrative

By Jonathan L. Walton

…e. Less thought was given, however, to the inextricable link between race, class and gender. And even less to the ways the black elite would become a part of the managerial class of bureaucratic institutions of social maintenance that concretize racial hierarchies. Thus today we find ourselves at a complicated moment in regards to race. We know that the tentacles of racial injustice have systematically extended themselves throughout the political…

Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed from Office” editorial, there’s been a great deal of buzz in the pundit class over whether Trump, after a highly publicized impeachment trial, needs to be concerned with possible defections in his white evangelical base. From an analytical standpoint, the buzz is mere noise, horse race politics nonsense from people who don’t understand that most white evangelicals have long since come to regard CT as “too liberal.” As John Stoehr observed on RD…

The Morning After in Colorado

By Paul Harvey

…can be mobilized in large numbers. These are mostly not the white working-class voters whose legitimate grievances Evan discusses here, but more middle-class folk clearly fine to accept the mess of Trump porridge. They were not, to the same degree, in 2012, for an explicitly and articulately religious candidate (Mitt Romney). They were, this time, for the candidate who played on the lower frequencies of the white American public. But I live in on…

Marriage Remains on Hold for California Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their US District Court victory comes to its final conclusion.” The National Organization for Marriage, forgetting that real human beings are affected by such a ruling, showed its usual class with an “in your face” to attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies proclaiming: “the Dream Team of Olson and Boies continue their unbroken string of losing actions in e…

No More Condescension: What We Can Do Now

By Peter Laarman

…ency who apparently became invisible or even nonexistent to the chattering classes. What I’m going to say about this may be taken ill by many RD readers, but it is fully consistent with what I have written in these pages previously. For more than thirty years, a Democratic Party financed by wealthy globalists focused its energies on issues related to culture liberalism (feminism, multiculturalism, LGBTQ advancement, etc.) while ignoring the devast…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…tants were effectively “paralyzed,” incapable of taking sides in the great class struggle of that era. And during the Great Meltdown of the 21st century’s first decade, one heard nary a hint of organized Protestant protest as Wall Street got bailed out while Main Street was left to fend for itself and as Bible Belt states decided that it was better for uninsured poor people to go without medical attention than to expand federally-paid Medicaid cov…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…ormalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its past and present clergy for complicity in the abuse. The original lawsuit listed SGM, Mahaney, Tomczak, and six other pastors from CLC and Sovereign Grace Church as defendants. The amended filing added five new plaintiffs and CLC, as well as CLC’s day school, the Fairfax church, and two more pastors as defendants. One new…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…ote, what was interesting for me as a journalist was the intersection, the class politics of denominational differences. So that people who had been on the outside, the crazy Pentecostal snake handlers, and the suburban evangelicals, those people were coming into power; and the golf-playing, scotch-drinking Episcopalians were losing their grip. All this other stuff was happening in terms of religion in the United States at the moment when I starte…