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

By Anita Little

…g off of that question, in what way is black history and black present inseparable from black religion? A major question is: how do you separate out this story? For example, if we’re looking at 1968, and we’re studying the Black Panthers or Black Power, we tend to assume that story is different from 1964 with the story of Rev. Martin Luther King. But we forget the religious influence that happened in both of those. For me, all of this is really me…

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

By Todd LeVasseur

…ches about religion written from inundated shores, hopefully they will reflect that religious studies joined with the rest of the academy in rising to the colossal challenges of our time. Hopefully they will reflect new hiring patterns, new patterns of engagement with colleagues across the academy and, in our teaching and research, a foregrounding of the natural world upon which our survival, let alone our intersectional flourishing, entirely depe…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…rthermore, Obama insists that Hamas should have never been even allowed to participate in the Palestinian elections in the first place because of their extremist views, which fail to recognize Israel and acts of terrorism by its armed wing. Yet he has never objected to the Israelis allowing parties such as National Union—which defends attacks on Arab civilians and seeks to destroy any Palestinian national entity and expel its Arab population—to pa…

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

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…mbrance of the dead, we turn our collective power as voters and democratic participants into sacred acts. Through political action, people of faith and conscience ritualize hope and create space for prophetic grief in spite of—in defiance against—the starkly American narrative of hatred and violence. I value the creation of space for people of all faiths to connect with the sacred during times of tragedy such as this one. There is a way to concept…

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

By Joel Pitney

…itney: How did you get into the ministry? Cynthia Meyer: My family did not participate actively in the church at all, but as a junior high kid, I was drawn to youth group. So I got involved in my local United Methodist Church pretty deeply during my junior high and high school years, participating in youth programs and trips. The church helped me learn about the world. That really meant a lot to me. By the time I was a senior in high school, I had…

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

…cal policies? Common historical wisdom holds that the social gospel broke apart at the end of World War I, a victim of both a naïve liberal theology and an emerging postwar religious apathy. However, it is more accurate to assert that the original progressive suppositions of the social gospel—predicated on the hope that religious leaders would stir the consciences of the nation’s business and political leaders to action—could no longer hold up aga…

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

By Noah Berlatsky

…ure—“Our society is getting meaner,” claims one—Colossian resolutely walks participants through various exercises to identify areas of conflict, and helps the pastors work through their differences, respectfully and with love. So far so good. It quickly becomes clear, however, that there’s a major obstacle to the work of reconciliation—LGBT acceptance. Gulker himself finds this rift especially painful. His children are both queer, and he clearly w…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…policy, too, and suggesting that they prefer some God talk to a Democratic Party with the backbone to stand up to Paul Ryan is, I would imagine, more than a bit insulting. But let’s not delude ourselves into lamenting the administration’s apparent diss of Jim Wallis. After all, liberal religious activists have long bristled at the Democrats’ embrace of certain religious figures who are “safe” because they’re not too subversive for conservatives—es…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…’s incongruence on the issue of family planning dated back to 1930 and the papal encyclical Casti Connubi (On Christian Marriage), which was written to address the growing acceptance of birth control throughout the Western world. The tipping point was reached in 1930, when the Anglican Church officially approved the use of birth control by married couples. Other Protestant denominations soon followed, signaling that contraceptives had gained moral…