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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…ist types who didn’t fit snugly in MCC or UCC or other places, there was a welcome. But the culture was different, so it didn’t have the same level of comfort around those things. And it grew and grew. And now we’re discerning, what in the world are we gonna become? Amazing to be in this building and feel that as far as you’ve come it’s still a beginning. That’s really true. We have a lot more to come. And a lot more opportunities for growth and e…

I Believe You’re Wrong: The Trouble with Tolerance

By Charles Randall Paul and John W. Morehead

…y center and mosque near the World Trade Center? More than likely he would welcome the arrival of yet another venue where, after listening carefully to his opponents, he would be afforded the opportunity to persuasively preach his form of religion to anyone who didn’t get it right (that is, everyone but him). He would be less likely to think of the nearby crime scene as a beachhead for Islam, than as a place where—yet again in the name of a higher…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…Americans in the United Church of Christ have it right: they call it the “welcome table.” The table of military consumerism is not welcoming, so that the eucharist really contradicts that. Dan: To go back to Cavanaugh for a minute, he has this really interesting idea that the nation-state—which is pretty much what you call the “national security state”—has this need to enforce sharp boundaries. Coming out of that is his understanding of torture a…

What is Community?

By Amina Wadud

…” until the month of fasting is done. Indeed last night, my shaykh said, ” welcome home.” And so it is. Not only nestled in the stunning beauty of the Shenandoah, with stars so bright against a deep dark sky, that those of us used to city lights cannot walk under the canopy of trees without constantly commenting on the sparkling display; but also in the company of the faithful with the fullest intent to celebrate those special occasions of devotio…

Juan Williams Gets Fired

By Hussein Rashid

…let’s be serious. To be clear, Williams was fired for being insubordinate. Welcome to the world of corporations that have standard hiring and firing practices. His speech was not censored, nor is this a discussion about sensitivities. However, Jillian York is right, we shouldn’t let this end the conversation about how we talk about religion in America. We should make this the beginning. Williams is a sideshow; let’s stay focused on the main event….

Former RNC Chair Comes Out

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mmitment to each other to get married.” “I hope that we, as a party, would welcome gay and lesbian supporters. I also think there needs to be, in the gay community, robust and bipartisan support [for] marriage rights.” While I suppose that’s a lofty and admirable goal, now that Mehlman faces no real financial threat from his stand, he will nonetheless face an uphill climb, especially if he continues to support anti-gay candidates under the “my pol…

The Right Attacks Obama’s Religious Advisors

By Sarah Posner

…age.” Do the Shoebats think that Palestinian-born ex-Muslims would be made welcome in the United States without what they disparage as “multi-culturalism?” There was a time — one might think long gone, but it is not, thanks to the likes of Shoebat — when a Palestinian-American would be regarded with suspicion, Christian or not. But that, in the upside-down America of the far right, is what’s wrong with America, not what’s right with it. And to mak…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…he still called himself “Cougar”—the rocker’s comeback may not be entirely welcome. For many (well, for me at least), Mellencamp covered much the same ground as Bob Seger. They reached out to mythic territory, Midwestern Bruce Springsteen wannabes. Occasionally, they came within range; if it hadn’t been so overplayed, “Jack and Diane” might be appreciated as the modest Indiana version of Springsteen’s Jersey anthem “Born to Run”—but Mellencamp’s s…

Beck, Native Americans, and the Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…e to LDS people and a move hailed by LDS anthropologists and scholars as a welcome corrective. If anything, Mormon leaders have been slowly but steadily deemphasizing Native Americans over the last three decades, abandoning the grand discourse once used in the 1970s by Church leaders like Spencer Kimball to describe even contemporary Native peoples as Book of Mormon “Lamanites” with a special history and destiny. That deemphasis has led to mixed f…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…dle Eastern Women Writers at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah read! I welcome their comments and hope I can respond to some of them. My thanks also to cUrioUs gUUrl and Adis. “Womens’ Double Duty” brought comments on my Facebook page, which got lost due to the way the thread works. That was the one entry when I got the most responses, mostly in the form of thanks and agreement. Sara Farooqi’s comments lead to other comments; and that’s always…