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Did Jesus Help Ghanaian Women with Birth Control?

By Allie Carter

…quire much more than the grim statistics about mortality rates in order to change sexual behavior – they need access to contraceptives (practically unheard of in some of the small villages I worked in), decision-making skills, communications skills (like assertiveness, for example), not to mention that one from my 7th grade health class wall – self-esteem. All those skills and more come into play on family planning issues as well as in HIV/AIDS pr…

On the ELCA’s Historic Shift to Include Gay Clergy: Reflections of a Self-Exiled Lutheran

By Eric Reitan

…otes may not be mine, but neither will be the sense of triumph that can only further distance those who struggle with these events or grieve them. I cannot tell them to stay, to do what I didn’t do, but I can empathize with their struggle. And perhaps such empathy can help to do the work that a change in policy cannot do. There are real human communities that must come to grips, sometimes grudgingly, with these changes. There is still work to be d…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…rch This is the context that has prompted so many evangelicals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashvil…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Wellington, New Zealand Per the National Catholic Register: “The only Anglophone nominee is Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, New Zealand. In 2005, he advocated a new ‘pastoral approach’ for allowing divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics to receive Communion. During last year’s synod on the family, he also voiced his support for a change in language when ministering to persons with same-sex attraction.” Archbishop Alberto Suárez Inda of Moreli…

Is Christianity Greening? Depends On Who (and How) You Ask

By Daniel Schultz

…ature trails, or underwrite environmental activism through their denominations. Belief, in other words, may be less important than the lived faith. Sometimes, the best way to make change is simply to be the change, and trust that it will all work out in the long run. Or sooner, given how fast the water is rising….

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

By Peter Laarman

…alignant generous ideas about God overwhelmingly attractive. The missional change will happen when clergy and congregations start breaking down old boundaries in Jesus-like ways. I’m all for Christians calling for public policy change in behalf of the poor, but I’m also all for churches inviting the business leaders in their midst to get to know some poor people—to get to know what being poor in American is really about, which is losing their voic…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…nce in history, according to Gandhi and King: this means the church has to change completely. It could happen. The church is changing and that is why there is so much resistance. Things are so bad in the world with war and poverty and climate change—we are realizing our violence is destroying us and that maybe Jesus was right. I wrote a letter to Pope Francis and I particularly asked him to write an encyclical on the nonviolence of Jesus and to re…

What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage

By Eric C. Miller

…s seen as causing social decline into barbarism. This technique of linking changes in marriage to a slippery slope to the nation’s destruction instilled fear of change. More importantly, however, these claims revealed underlying ideological norms about what constituted a “good” nation. Within this reasoning, the family represents a microcosm of the nation as a whole; so it was problematic if the American family replicated seemingly barbarous famil…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a glass jar that contains a steak. The grayish meat floats in a solution of alcohol and water, unable to rot. According to legend, in 1951 it was cut from the thawing body of a giant ground sloth, transported to New York City, cooked with other sloth steaks, and served to the members of the Explorers Club for their annual banquet. It would have been a hearty…

Anti-Gay Republican Senator Comes Out as LGBT Ally

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gthens the institution of marriage.” While Portman is to be lauded for his change of heart, I find it appalling that it took his own son’s homosexuality to change his mind. He’s spent almost his entire political career making the lives of other parents’ children harder with his votes to deny equality to gay and lesbian couples. But, as we’ve always preached in the LGBT community, the best way to bring about change is to get to know an actual livin…