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For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…haland from my house. It is my proximity to Buddhism that allows me to reconcile science and Christianity in a way that may seem contradictory to reason. Living near that border allows a Christian to be wide open to science and shows that Christianity too can absorb and incorporate modern science into itself with plenty of room to spare for metaphysics. Science, the Killer of Religion His Holiness told us a final story. Years ago, he met an Americ…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…at the world. So, just because the science of supernatural experience is inconclusive doesn’t mean that these things don’t exist. There is a great line by Huston Smith that sums it up very nicely: “absence of evidence in not evidence of absence.” Did you have a specific audience in mind? Just people who like good stories. I think like many writers you want to appeal to as many people as possible. I was no different. However, my intention in writi…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…the God of Abraham, nor is his duty to the United States. In the dizzying incoherence of his policies and moods, a thin thread of consistency in Trump’s positions endures: land borders themselves are sacred, holy, worth honoring with expansive and menacing shrines to their glory, and worth protecting with the blood of innocents. He doesn’t believe that God put them there, but that the borders themselves are divine entities. It is the idolatrous fa…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…olics in Africa has gone through a startling increase in recent decades. Since 1980, the number of African Catholics has grown by 238%, in contrast to Europe, where it has grown by only 6%. Some of this may be attributable to higher fertility rates in African countries, but it also reflects the church’s success in missionary efforts. And where there are a decreasing number of vocations to the priesthood in Europe, where vocations have declined by…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…uties and bishops at General Convention, emerging theologies mingled with ancient traditions. New practices encouraged some and rankled others. Resolutions that may seem trivial today took their place alongside matters of seemingly greater immediate import. And, both formally and informally, the structure of the Episcopal Church, and with it American Christianity, continued its evolution toward something no one may recognize in generations ahead….

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ristian right groups, from the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Focus on the Family, who network with representatives from the Vatican, Mormon scholars, conservative evangelicals and Catholics from developing nations, and a few Muslim leaders seeking allies to fight gay and women’s rights at the UN. The result is the spread of US culture-war tactics across the globe—from the Czech Republic to Qata…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…much leaves Cardinal Charles Chaput shouting in the wilderness. It’s no coincidence that the high point of white Catholic defection from the Democratic Party coincided with the period of 2012 through 2014, when the Catholic bishops made opposition to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act the centerpiece of their “religious liberty” campaign and repeatedly accused the administration of attacking religious conservatives. According to…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…to admit that I heard Fresen make much the same argument at a 2005 conference in Philadelphia marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Detroit women’s ordination conference. At the time I thought perhaps Fresen didn’t understand how ethically problematic such a comparison is: according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seven thousand black South Africans were killed under apartheid, and the number imprisoned was far higher. The Catholic…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…ng] off” the “Muslim poll,” adding: Don’t get me wrong: the economy is the number one issue for sure but when you start seeing an increase in people thinking the President is a Muslim then that seems pretty significant. Why? Because it’s showing that more people are not trusting him. The trust issue is important. Plus, news flash: the last time I checked America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles so it’s kind of important when you see a pol…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…at evangelical schools are acting on both ideological imperatives and financial incentives—donors often threaten to withhold funds, and parents may refuse to send their children if the schools fail to toe the line—the likelihood of effecting positive change through external pressure is minimal. The Hawkins case at Wheaton may yet prove to be the exception to the rule, as a number of insiders are holding out hope that she will be reinstated. Perha…