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The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…theological authorities, and we’re never introduced to theologians who are representative of our backgrounds.” When asked about Merritt’s use of the word “marginalized” and the dominant narrative among some conservative Christians like Eric Metaxas who feel Keller is being “bullied,” Figueroa was incredulous: “Keller? The guy with a platform and money and prestige and influence? One of the biggest theological influencers in the evangelical and Ref…

Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…dy boys by and large did not go to Catholic schools. They went to the top prep schools and to Harvard. Ted spent only the eighth grade at a Jesuit prep school and went on to the Milton Academy. Had he gone to Catholic schools in the 1940s and ’50s, abortion would not have been mentioned; it simply was not an issue much before it started to become legal in the late ’60s in the United States. But there is something to be said for a good secular educ…

Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

By Lauri Lebo

…far between. The New York Times builds its whole story out of a handful of phone calls and an email. But the article indicates that those who run the various nonprofits that help soldiers achieve conscientious objector status expect a floodgate of calls if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is formally repealed. The good news is that the groups don’t think there is legal basis for the claims. In the “don’t ask, don’t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…n edited and condensed version of our conversations, which took place over phone and email. FEBRUARY 2017 Since the election, how has your relationship with white evangelicalism shifted? Sundays are hard. The last few months, as the temperature has turned up, I just get angry when sermons don’t address the injustice and violence in our country. I do not want to leave the first church that ever felt like a home to me. I’ve spent my entire Christian…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…om Arizona, put it this way: THANK YOU BLOSSOM! I will never have a way to repay you this wonderful feeling of love I have felt through out all these past days!. I don’t care anymore if the spaceship comes or not because I understand now what love is all about and what we need to do in order to ascend. A ship or extraterrestrials won’t solve our problems, we are the ony ones with the power to change our realities! Thank you Blossom for this proof…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…of Alabama, was recently profiled in the Times, too, for voting more with Republicans than Democrats (including against the health care bill, after demanding the inclusion of the Stupak amendment). What the party leadership is out of touch with is not Stupak, but its own constituents. In an ongoing discussion of the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the successor to Obama for America, Organizing for America, Personal Democracy Forum’s Micah Sifry not…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…ion about his bank account, credit cards, home address and social security number—was illegally retrieved, and that he was subjected to surveillance and phone-tapping. The church, meanwhile, countered that Behar’s article was a slanderous, sensationalist attack on a legitimate religious organization and part of a much longer history of misunderstanding and persecution that this religious minority has faced since its inception. In keeping w…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…cedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are finally provoking Church officials. This newfound energy has nothing to do with Daniels and everything to do with the events of last May. An online petition features footage…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…h conditions. Conditional rights, versus equal rights. And conditional freedoms versus equal freedoms. And that’s where, to me, there’s a greater example of the kind of things that same-gender loving people are going through now. Alright? The Civil Rights Movement was a fight for equality for black people and the right to vote. The suffrage movement was a right for equality and the right to vote. But this whole thing that happened during chattel s…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…elcome to receive communion should they ever show up in their fiefdom. Fiefdom is a reasonable synonym for Diocese in the Roman Catholic context, for each bishop is a little prince with feudal powers. For all the talk about Roman Catholicism as a centralized power, the fact is that individual bishops pretty much get to call the shots in their diocese. For Sibelius, this means that while she may be refraining from receiving communion in her home di…