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Young Male Congregants Sue Televangelist Eddie Long, Alleging Sexual Coercion

By Sarah Posner

…while you’re there. It almost takes you to come out to really see what was really happening, to see how you’re really being used and abused and not just the sexual abuse; it was abuse all through there. . . . I really thought these people loved me, I really did! And now I know they didn’t care anything about me. There’s more detail in God’s Profits, including my coverage of a Trinity Broadcasting Network “Praise-A-Thon,” with Long pleading for mon…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…this? I don’t know, honestly. He died when I was a small child, so I don’t really remember him. He died before this conversation had really begun to play out. I know that he was pretty conservative in his morality. Even though I suspect there are a lot of theological issues where my grandfather and I would disagree, I don’t know that for a fact. I don’t know what would have happened to his heart. My one hope would be that he would appreciate this…

4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…oloff. 4. “I’m not upset with you. I want to know how you’re feeling” is a really standup thing to say when someone tells you difficult news. Olivia Perry, a single teen mom of a baby daughter named Eden, isn’t happy with the results of Eden’s paternity test. In a scene I found rather touching, she tells her parents, Mark and Cheryl, “I got the results of the paternity test and I don’t really understand them.” It’s likely that Olivia’s just flound…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…ol over the matter. So when I had to introduce myself I just went with the numbers as the doctor had given them to me. I’m in that pre-diabetes state, and if I get a handle on it I can avoid progression to a worse state, or stroke or death or whatever. I took her seriously when she told me and I took measures to address it before I came to class, ordering my own books to return the ones I borrowed from the library. Actually getting some of those l…

Irony Really is Dead: GOP Plans to Send Adulterous Third Wife of Serial Philanderer as Ambassador to Vatican

By Patricia Miller

The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of sexuality for most of my adult voting life. Since the Reagan administration we have seen a party that has consistently hoodwinked voters with its assurances that the morally upright Party of God would vanquish the amoral, pro-abortion, anything-goes-sexually-speaking Democrats. Nowhere is the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party and the pure rid…

Why the World Needs Religious Studies

By Nathan Schneider

…“I think the Secretary of State needs to have religion advisors.” I hadn’t really thought of it that way before, but it made great sense, especially with someone like Albright saying it. Religion is everywhere. It does matter. The ongoing sectarian violence in occupied Iraq had turned the headlines into daily reminders about the consequences of not taking religion seriously—to say nothing of politics in DC back then. Yes—sounds like a job for a re…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time to wrap my mind around is that an awful lot of Evangelicals really haven’t grappled with recognizing that this is not something you could choose your way out of. There’s always this sense of, “If you really tried hard, or prayed hard enough, you could come around.” Again, my gay friends would say, “Why on earth would I choose something like this? Who needs all this trouble?” I think it’s the willingness of gay and lesbian people in…

Shari’ah is Not the Law

By Amina Wadud

…usually, from the Prophet’s behavior. After the Prophet dies, there was a really strong preoccupation with how to do what we are supposed to do in order to follow the guidance of the Qur’an and of his example. This preoccupation led to a flurry of legal thinking, legal thinkers, legal rulings and legal rationales. No one involved in this flurry said they were doing shari’ah. The definition of shari’ah did evolve at this time. From its root form,…

Yeshiva is Likely to Win Its Battle Against LGBTQ Group — But Do Jewish Orgs Really Want to Empower a Militant Christian Movement?

By Orit Avishai

Yeshiva University (YU), a storied New York City Orthodox Jewish institution, is the unlikely darling du jour of political and legal conservatives. Sued for discrimination by a group of students and alumni after it refused to recognize an undergraduate Pride Alliance group, YU claimed that New York State laws that require it to do so encroach upon its religious liberty. But YU would do well to proceed with caution. If the university wins this bat…

When Is a “Religious War” Not Really a Religious War?

By Sarah Posner

Is Jerusalem seeing a “religious war?” A day after last Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue, Amos Harel wrote in Haaretz that the “attack reinforces the concern that the terror is taking on the trappings of a religious war (not that these trappings were totally absent from the conflict before). We hardly need to elaborate how dangerous this motif is.” “Palestinians believe that Israel is pushing for a…