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Updated: New Riverside Pastor Steps Down; Where Does That Leave Progressive Christianity?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ng that the Church Council accepts the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton as Senior Minister of the Riverside Church. Dr. Braxton brings a remarkable combination of social justice activism, profound spirituality, and intensive scholarship that complements our institution’s vision of being an interdenominational, interracial, and international faith community, and we have been blessed to have him serve as our Senior Minister. Dr. Braxton’s de…

Wannabi+Jihadi+Hoodlum= Wajihoodlum

By Hussein Rashid

…vehicle was a Muslim, who emigrated from Senegal. I remember returning to New York from Boston after 9/11. The fact that I was a New Yorker trumped any other identification I had — both race and religion. It was understood that I shared in the grief of the city and was committed to rebuilding. I also remember the city being one of the least fear-filled places in the country after the attack on the Twin Towers. The goal of terrorists is not to kil…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…ty. There’s no clock in the Oculus; the closest thing you’ll find is a Rolex store. The Oculus alienates all except the wealthiest of visitors. The giant eyeball says to all others, “You only wish you could be part of this.” The proud twin towers of the World Trade Center proclaimed the dominance of New York City’s finance industry. But what we remember is the horrifying day all the unsuspecting people in those towers were attacked—and the number…

Fight the Tower: Protests Continue at Union Theological Seminary

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

….” This institutional identity and mission is at stake with the proposed luxury development. https://youtu.be/AhRXu2lN8-Y The most depressing part of the months-long fight for any information or open conversation with our administration came when I asked my professor Serene Jones, who also serves as Union’s President, if the institution was worth saving at any cost. The only answer to the question that doesn’t make these gothic walls an idol would…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…legalization of abortion or same-sex marriage); Bickle has said the “homosexual agenda” is “exploding” and that marriage equality is a satanic “deception” that is “rooted in the depths of hell.” His view of the end-times sets Bickle apart from many other evangelicals and Pentecostals, including many, oddly, with whom he has shared the stage at The Call and The Response events. Texas televangelist John Hagee, for example, who spoke at The Response…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…ore pernicious signs like those mentioned above. If you are interested in exploring your colleague’s magical new religion that apparently makes software engineers personable, productive, and pleasant, here are some tips: Take a skeptical wingman/woman/person to any event that you are concerned might suck you in. Be on guard for people trying to isolate you and your wingman/woman/person from each other; that’s a common strategy to make you more vul…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…personal loving creator exists, they might show something more modest—for example, that in order to explain the universe we encounter in ordinary experience, we need to posit the existence of a fundamentally mysterious reality beyond the empirical world. Just because an argument doesn’t take us all the way to God doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant to the case for theism. Secondly, sometimes an argument relies on premises that some reasonable people will…

Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Julie Ingersoll

…which they critique both the denialists who say that dominionism doesn’t exist, and alarmists who fail to properly contextualize dominionists’ activities. Christian Reconstructionism is the older of the two movements (though the NAR has its roots in Pentecostalism that pre-dates both). There are two of the core aspects of Christian Reconstructionism that are relevant here. First is the view that the Kingdom of God was established at the resurrect…

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

By Jay Michaelson

…so. The kosher Buddhism presented in “Buddhists’ Delight” is basically relaxation. Not so relaxed that we forget about our liberal political commitments, but relaxed enough that we don’t check our Blackberries when they buzz. Interestingly, right after I read Atlas’ essay, I went to a session at the Mind and Life conference on new clinical studies showing the efficacy of mindfulness in lessening the agony of cancer patients. I appreciated Atlas’ g…

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…evangelical manifesto urging the church to maintain its condemnation of sexual acts between same-sex partners. Here are my column’s final paragraphs: “Despite the inevitable unevenness of any collection like this, and a disappointing sense that the evangelical authors of the St. Andrew Day’s Statement have not quite engaged their critics, The Way Forward? operates at a level far above the usual battling about a handful of biblical passages and th…