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Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…eath sentence) he gathered them around a table for a familiar meal endowed with rich cultural memory and theological relevance for his people—a people familiar with death, oppression, and liberation. At this last Passover celebration, Jesus entreated his friends to perpetuate the act of consuming everyday victuals—bread and wine—in remembrance of him: a simple meal transformed into a political act of remembering. This episode communicates a sacram…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…s my role.” I just get Apple’s rainbow death wheel! You seem like a self-reflexive guy, you must reflect on… Daily survival is wake up, make the kids breakfast, take them to school, walk the dog, work on the next thing. If I could help people see that faith is a natural intelligent response to the world that we’re in, if I could help rescue the Jesus story from some of the other perspectives that feel like they’ve hijacked it, that would bring me…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…a good example to a child. A generation of children raised by gay parents will grow into adulthood with impaired appreciation of the natural family. By implication, they should grow into homosexuality themselves and, without bearing their own genuine and natural offspring, try to concoct families. A society that honours sodomy must drink from this barren and sterile brew in which boys will not grow into men and girls will not grow into women. The…

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…ut it remains an overwhelmingly Catholic country with a dominant Spanish influence. With a dizzying number of languages, economic classes, ethnicities and cultures represented in American Catholic churches, American Catholics resist singularity. And it follows that they are going to be inconsistent in how they define mercy, as the hierarchy of the American church is often wont to demonstrate. Even the variety of American “Mercy Doors” found online…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…world’s first secular republic. Although the unaffiliated should not be conflated with atheists, it’s worth concentrating on them as they’re clearly the most feared subcategory. When atheists support same-sex marriage, for example, it’s not because they don’t believe in marriage, it’s because they believe in love and commitment. When they insist on removing creationism from public school curricula, it’s because they believe in the power of science…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…eople, one realm, one leader). Taken together, Trump’s recent statements reflect a willingness to trade in well-known Nazi propaganda tactics. Unlike Hitler, his speech most explicitly targets Muslims and immigrants rather than Jews (but it’s a risky bet to think American Jews won’t eventually be targeted if they don’t fit Trump’s narrow, rather Christian understanding of what he sees as America’s “Judeo-Christian” culture). His rhetoric, however,…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…r about fixing the state budget has now evaporated. In order to work their will without a quorum, Senate Republicans stripped out all references to state finances and converted their bill into a straightforward anti-union smackdown. I don’t know how many commentators will observe that this is about violence to workers’ rights and livelihoods. It doesn’t matter that it takes place in Wisconsin’s very graceful Capitol building (I loved its elegance…

‘It’s a Gay Problem,’ and Other Myths From the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis

By Joelle Casteix

…omen victims and forcing a sexual identity onto male victims against their will. We don’t know the sheer number of female victims of child sexual assault in the Catholic Church. But women are not victims of gay priests. So what does this make the women? Are they not victims at all? Such explanations leave little room for female victims who are then more likely to stay silent and minimize their experiences. Now let’s talk about the male victims. Wa…

Exclusive: Religious Leaders for Immigration Equality for Gay and Lesbian Couples

By Sarah Posner

…nclusion of UAFA in any bill a dealbreaker, going so far as to threaten to withdraw their support for the comprehensive reform they otherwise called vital if it also included equality for gays and lesbians. Frequently politicians and pundits point to large coalitions like the Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which includes leadership from the Catholic Church and the National Association of Evangelicals, as the sole barometer of…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Have Shaped Evangelicals” by Christianity Today, alongside works by C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Francis Schaffer, and Rick Warren. Her influence is well noted in her obituary by Kate Shellnutt at Christianity Today. Through Elliot’s book, evangelicals latched on to the deaths of these five young men, and their story became a galvanizing force for keeping the faith, and perhaps for inspiration to get up and go. Gates of Splendor continues to b…