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Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…ch members present remarked that such a public statement of solidarity and welcome had never happened before—and wouldn’t have. Something had changed for us at Fourth Presbyterian Church—we realized we needed to own the affirmation we believed in. It’s awful that it took an act of horrific violence to inspire such a shift, but I’m hopeful for what else could follow both in my own congregation and in the church as a whole. For the rest of Pride mon…

Pagan Martyrs, Murderous Monks: Agora Hits US Shores

By Nathan Schneider

…f Hypatia’s inconvenient celibacy—is also Agora’s best hope. It comes as a welcome contrast, for instance, to HBO’s Rome, which turns figures like Cicero and Cato into wimps compared to a muscular Mark Antony, with no mention of the intellectual feats by which we now know them best. Ancient world or this one, big ideas don’t easily compete on screen with messy power struggles and lustrous bodies. But it’s worth a try. “I believe in philosophy,” Hy…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…Community, sought to dispel “rumors” that the tea party movement doesn’t “welcome blacks.” Yet while they endorsed their tea party friends (who had apparently depleted their audience), other speakers made clear that perhaps the tea parties needed a little more of the holy ghost. “We need the tea party movement with a Christian imperative,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “That wo…

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

By Jay Michaelson

…e reading this, Matisyahu, or Matt, or by whatever new name this newly strong self is to be known, let me be the first to welcome you home….

Remembering What Blood Has Bought

By Jonathan Ebel

…is the essence of the problem. Suresnes was unsealed in the early 1950s to welcome twenty-four unknown dead of World War II. But these dead did not join the row-on-row ranks of the knowns of World War I. Instead, they were buried between two sections of the graves area and arranged in the shape of a Latin cross. (The new section of the cemetery was dedicated in 1952 by AMBC Chairman General George C. Marshall.) This was a remarkably intentional ac…

Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular

By Donna Schaper

…would be best as an army general. Rejection is big for me. Acceptance and welcome is also big for me, as being taken in when you have been thrown out means a lot to a person. But what means the most to me is the rogue behavior, the civil disobedience that marked my own ordination into the church. Never forget that is how the first 11 women in the Episcopal church were ordained. On July 29, 1974, in Philadelphia, 11 women were ordained as the firs…

Your Uterus Is “An Important Subject” About Which Your Fellow Citizens “Wish To Converse”

By Sarah Posner

…of women and families when they have not been invited – and indeed are not welcome.” As devotee of the First Amendment, I have conflicting feelings about restrictions on speech. Steven R. Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union noted such conflicts in a statement: “We agree that a fixed buffer zone imposes serious First Amendment costs, but we also think the Court underestimated the proven difficulty of protecting the constit…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

RD is thrilled to welcome Patricia Miller as its newest blogger. Miller, whose book Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church is due out in May from UC Press, will write about the emerging issues related to the Catholic hierarchy and reproductive rights, as well as the Catholic Church and Catholicism more broadly. Read her first two blog posts here and follow her on Twitter: @patti_miller. –eds The 41st anniversary of Roe v….

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…r became the Mormon prophet who received and implemented the revelation to welcome men of African descent into the lay priesthood—wrote in his book The Miracle of Forgiveness that homosexuality was one in a series of “ever deepening degeneracies” pursued by the sexually depraved. Although Kimball died in 1985, the view he articulated remained virtually uncontested until the early 1990s, when small, nuanced changes in speeches by high-ranking LDS C…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…pep-rally type prayer) about how the Roman Catholic Church “encourages the promotion of the dignity of every human person, regardless of their physical, mental, cultural, social and religious characteristics…” Tell that to a trans person, a family growing through the generosity of a surrogate, or a pregnant person who decides to end their pregnancy. Their human dignity is erased by the content of this document. Their rights are threatened and/or r…