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Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…is case, I was also aware that many members of the order would be eager to buy the book—despite how sizeable, widespread, long-lived, influential, and intriguing this order is, no academic book has ever been published about them in English (and only one has ever been published at all—in French). Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I actually don’t like pissing people off. I know some scholars rise to fame that way…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…tive ignores the changing culture and the reality that a not-insignificant number of Democratic voters aren’t affiliated with any particular faith. It’s as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the In God We Trust issue. There’s a reason Schlitz Gusto is a niche brew, people. Tastes change, and so do politics. There are subtler issues as well. As I said above, the hook here isn’t bad. When I lived in this distr…

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

By Hollis Phelps

…States projects its “morality” onto culture at large, and the media often buy it with little hesitation. It’s difficult to assume that they are acting in good faith, though, and in this sense they mirror the president. Writing for the Washington Post, Greg Sargent recently noted that Trump’s declaration of a national emergency is “a sham based on nothing but bad-faith motives and invented metrics.” While a solid majority of Americans aren’t buyin…

Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls

By Andrew L. Seidel

…h clerk—a “church lady”—in the archdiocese of New York stole $1 million to buy dolls. Nor is the problem limited to the Catholic Church. Nearly every sect has seen million-dollar fraud from within, including Episcopalians, Baptists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and other religions too. We could debate whether immoral people seek out positions in the clergy or whether clerical life corrupts people, but that debate misses the point. Most crimes are…

The Older You Are, The More Likely You’ll Marry Outside Your Religion

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

…end up divorced. I did hope to entertain them too. A reviewer for the Christian Century found me “very, very funny.” Who knew? What alternative title would you give the book? “Mixed Blessings” was the runner-up. But it was too wishy washy. How do you feel about the cover? I wish it made more people buy the book. But I’m probably blaming the wrong person. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Liar’s Poker by Michael Le…

Obama’s Oil-Soaked Prayers

By Johnny P. Flynn

…Likewise nuclear weapons, human cloning, machine guns and land mines. Cell phones in church are a wash as well and nary a whisper on the need for a satellite feed of Christian programming into godless parts of the world. When it comes to a scriptural basis for handling modern technology we are as far adrift as oil-soaked pelicans: The chains are locked and tied across the door. The environmental movement was a whisper after the publication of Rach…

Episcopal Church Trades Cross for Seashell

By Alana Massey

…s. They don’t serve clam juice in lieu of wine at communion. I know a fair number of Episcopalians who have sailboats but I don’t think they were motivated by faith to buy them. The Episcopal liturgy is refreshingly Christ-centric in a climate where Christian denominations are so eager for relevance that they’re eschewing talk of the Incarnation, Eucharist, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. And yet the cathedral in Boston has “a giant aluminum sculpt…

Young Male Congregants Sue Televangelist Eddie Long, Alleging Sexual Coercion

By Sarah Posner

…ly pursuing them, put them on the church payroll, and used church funds to buy them gifts and take them on lavish trips. Long used his position of spiritual authority to coerce the young men into sexual relationships with him, they charge, relationships that Long insisted were sanctioned by God. The notion of “spiritual” fathers and sons, and of obedience to one in spiritual authority, is a common theme in Long’s career trajectory. The plaintiffs…

The ‘Messy’ God of Science

By Mark Vernon

…rd Manly Hopkins. Quite, she agreed. Her audience of theologian-scientists listened nervously, perhaps as Keble College does to the physics labs. Some were worried that she might be taken to be advocating Intelligent Design. And Polkinghorne himself didn’t buy it. What about the conservation laws of physics, he asked—of energy, momentum and charge. They’re clearly universal. And they point to the unity of truth, and beauty of cosmic order, that le…

The Problem with the Discussion of Race and the Tea Party Movement

By Julie Ingersoll

…ional interpretation and their nostalgia for “states’ rights.” Even if you buy revisionist Christian American history which argues that the founders detested slavery and sought to facilitate the end of the institution, there can be no argument over the fact that they did not “intend” African Americans (or women) to have the right to vote. George Lakoff has done some great work on this linguistic divide, especially as it relates to “family metaphor…