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Rumors of the Suicide of the Liberal Church Are Exaggerated: A Response to Chris Hedges

By Mark Hulsether

…n times more people than watched the Democratic Presidential debates. That number, combined with 36 million liberal Protestants (with “growing irrelevancy”), is just a bit below the viewership for the Super Bowl. As to causes of decline, if we move to the margins of demonic institutions does this slow it down or speed it up? He calls for greater vitality on the left, and I agree that this is better than steering right or being tepid—but at best wh…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…he African American tradition as well. However, Christianity is the tool many black leaders have chosen, and for a long time many African American political leaders were also religious. They were ordained ministers, they were church women. We can’t tell the story of black women in freedom movements in the 19th century unless we’re telling the story of black church women. Christianity is constantly going to be intertwined in how we talk about our h…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…natural world that may be anathema to navigating adaptation and promoting any type of non-anthropocentric cultural values ascribed to the planet. And despite these programs being early adopters of a religion and nature/ecology approach to religious studies, they’re still outliers, massively outnumbered by the majority of programs that do not teach such courses (or possibly offer a token elective course on religion and nature/ecology) or train scho…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…PAC are right-wing Christian fundamentalists, who tend to vote Republican anyway. Furthermore, Obama has been far more dependent on large numbers of small donors from his grassroots base and less on the handful of wealthy donors affiliated with such special interest groups as AIPAC. This speech may have cost him large numbers of these smaller, progressive donors without gaining him much from the small numbers of larger, more conservative donors. I…

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

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…prayer and deconstructed the meaning of prayer in its myriad forms, how many actually thought about the victims—in San Bernardino, as well as in the other 352 mass shootings that have happened in the U.S. this year? The tragically familiar experience in San Bernardino is not about prayer, but the policies in the U.S. that create virtually unrestrained and unregulated access to firearms and the exacerbated culture of death-dealing. Defenses of pra…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…is almost entirely supportive of LGBT members and clergy, and there are many, many reconciling congregations. You’re in a much more conservative area of the country and of the church, and I’m curious to know what the general attitude towards LGBT people is? Do you find that there are more supportive people in the general membership than in the leadership? My congregation has been very supportive. A small number of people chose to leave. Some of t…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…aception. So is the salient difference the size of the list? Is there some number of things-this-paper-can-be-used-for that puts the employer at a safe moral distance from the act, where previously they had been complicit? If so, what’s the number? How long does the list of possible uses have to be to assuage the employer’s conscience enough to let the employees use their compensation for things the employer finds morally repugnant? See, here’s th…

Grassroots Faith: The Lessons of The Social Gospel

By Christopher H. Evans

…the mainline) adopted a variety of social justice resolutions, and that many social gospel leaders were gaining the attention of the era’s major political leaders. However, he worried that the theological and political commitments of the social gospel were not penetrating the fabric of American congregational life. One hundred years later, I’m not convinced that many religious progressives have learned that it takes more than an ability to gain a…

New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?

By Noah Berlatsky

…o it never really asks why homophobia is so central to the church for so many, or whether that homophobia calls into question the value of Christian unity. It’s true that Christian support for LGBT people is growing, among a significant number of Christians. But it’s also true that for others, as the film shows, bigotry and prejudice against LGBT people are inseparable from their sense of their Christian faith—overriding personal friendships and i…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…ocratic-religious alliance demonstrates just how fragile—or shall I say phony? or non-existent?—it really is. I’ve always doubted that religious support for Obama turned the 2008 election; as I’ve argued before, he gained support across the a number of demographic groups, and it’s difficult to make the case that Obama won because he finally shed the Democrats’ (imagined) hostility to religion. If you’re a religious person whose faith compels you t…