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Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…ampaign on Facebook. This small gesture in support of gay marriage was the latest in an ongoing evolution of my thought. Like a handful of others, I’ve only recently “come out of the closet” as a straight, married, (quasi-)evangelical Christian who supports the right of every person to marry the person they love. Not surprisingly, my small gesture sparked a bit of online controversy. Because my Facebook friends mirror the various chapters of my l…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…rise in GDP in the last ten years, repaired relations with Israel, and the latest news suggests he’s even worked out a peace deal with the Kurds. If Erdogan can make Turkey a truly multicultural democracy, he’ll have resurrected the best characteristics of the Ottoman Empire, which last held the Caliphate, conveniently enough in modern Turkey. The Bad: Erdogan may actually already be the Caliph, which kind of ruins our brackets. Also, his peace wi…

Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality

By Nicole Greenfield

…affirm people wherever they are,” Bell continued. This declaration is the latest step in Bell’s “search for a more forgiving faith,” a process Kelefa Sanneh detailed in The New Yorker last November. Bell first truly rocked the conservative Christian world in 2011 by questioning the existence of hell in his book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Six months after its publication, he resigned from Mar…

Will The Bible Miniseries Correct Biblical Illiteracy?

By Sarah Posner

Last week, after watching the latest episode of The Bible miniseries on the History Channel, bible scholar Wil Gafney wrote on her blog: The bible is a wonderfully rich, complicated, challenging, illuminating, revelatory text. It is also horrifically violent and does not say what we want the way we want it to. We must take it in its entirety seriously as a cultural and historical artifact and as scripture – if that is our confession. But this ser…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…s: The Making of American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah. In Schmidt’s latest contribution to this field, American Religious Liberalism, co-edited with religious historian Sally Promey, he misrepresents my trilogy on American liberal theology, so first a word about that. Schmidt says that “religious liberalism” should be defined more broadly than I do in The Making of American Liberal Theology. But I stressed in all three volumes that my subje…

Massacre Of Islamists By Egyptian Military Likely Strategic

By Haroon Moghul

…plode, in the manner of black holes, drawing in all those around them. The latest rumors indicate the children of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders, as well as several journalists, have been killed; it is practically impossible to imagine any meaningful reconciliation now. Where before the demand was reinstating Morsi, what possible demands could there be at this point? And what expectation of their fulfillment? When I wrote more than two years ag…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch religiosity. Of course Jesus is hot, white, and soulful. Of course he is just absolutely perfect. That’s what a religious person should aspire to be: nice, clean, square, entirely in major key. More than the Biblical literalism of the film—a term which is hardl…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…ringing the church back to its core message. And it is working. The Pope’s latest statement, Evangelii Gaudium, is a papal exhortation designed to promote evangelism in the Catholic Church. Most media outlets are not emphasizing the evangelism element, but are paying close attention to the pope’s criticism of the current economic system as “unjust at its very root,” and the Social Darwinism that pervades our societies. Even President Obama found…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

First, a spoiler alert of sorts: the “half” in S. Brent Plate’s latest book is us. That is, the seeking, incomplete human body. Plate, a longtime RD writer and Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, contends that religion is a physical activity, the spiritual experienced through our senses. And each of those five other objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread—have a sensory component. (You can read an ada…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

….3 million people whose benefits were about to expire are just some of the latest examples of the heartless approach to poverty and unemployment that characterizes contemporary policy making. Not only have millions of the long-term unemployed started the New Year with no safety net, but many of those with full-time jobs earn less than the poverty level for a family of four (18 million people in 2012 or 17.5 percent of all full-time, year-round wor…