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Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…policy: Government spending is sinful, and arises from a national turning away from God’s ways of dealing with money; sin originated in the New Deal, the “first time in history” that people looked to the government and not to themselves for employment; and it is only the heroic efforts of private entrepreneurs, operating preferably without any government interference but with a strong Christian morality, that prevents exploitation and mandates hel…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ry being. Even if people know it to be true, through oral history or other ways, it really shines a light on it in a different sort of way. It allows people in the present, using a very high-tech means, to say something about the past, and to just sort of give a lie to claims that slavery was long, long ago; [that] it has nothing to do with you or me. And, for some of the people that I write about, that claim about the past being also in the prese…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…ng to see how her mom’s Buddhism is something lived out in her life—in the way she cares for people and in the way “she sees the interconnectedness of people in a way that feels counter-cultural to the individualist capitalist” American way. Even though AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez feels cut off from her ancestral faith heritage and at times “not native enough,” she hasn’t stopped seeking that connection. In 2016, she joined the protests of the Dakota…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…some women at some moments in their lives choose to exercise in a physical way by giving birth. Why not simply say so and move on to the many other ways human beings are generative? Otherwise, men are excluded from generativity, and women who choose not to bear children are left aside. Section three is on the female body, referred to as “the feminine body.” Decades of gender analysis that has offered alternatives to socially constructed binaries a…

How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months

By Hollis Phelps

…or an emphasis on the importance of spirituality, broadly defined. In this way of thinking, people are not leaving the church because of its central message but because of the way that message is or is not presented. Hence the calls among some in more evangelical circles, for instance, for the abandonment of the skin-deep flashiness and alienating culture war rhetoric for a kinder, more authentic—and ultimately more attractive—faith. There is some…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…not announce love this time. Instead she says, “you are halfway there: halfway through the month of Ramadan!” Let me tell you what happens around the halfway mark. The calendar starts to reverse. We no longer count the days into the month, but rather start looking towards the end of the month: 14 more days, 13 more days, 12 more days. The countdown continues until that glorious, glowing moon disappears into the hilal (slim crescent) and then goes…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…urt clearly was opposed to the death penalty across the board, and would always find some procedural way to strike it down in any particular case; these people gave up on the attempt to write new death penalty legislation. A second group of interpreters felt that the Court was simply opposed to jury “discretion”; in their view, a mandatory death penalty would neatly solve the problem. A third group felt that the Court was inviting further reflecti…

The Pope’s Gay Priests

By William J. Dohar

…gs on homosexuality, Vigneron said. “He may have had his own Pope Francis way of putting it, different from maybe the way Pope Benedict would put it, but they’re saying the same things.” Cardinal George of Chicago issued a statement that included among other things: “Pope Francis, on his way back to Rome from the World Youth Day celebration in Rio, reaffirmed the teaching of the Catholic faith and other religions that homosexual genital relations…

Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) Paved the Way for Trump

By Paul Harvey

…mbers of the Eagle Forum were trying to wrest control of the organization away from Schlafly, precisely because she got on board the Trump train rather than rally for the rather more obvious primary candidate of the religious right, Ted Cruz. She fought back—even against some of her own family members—and stayed the course. Schlafly claimed victory over the Nelson Rockefeller Republican establishment in the 1960s, and over the current Republican e…

RD10Q: MLK and the Rhetoric of Freedom

By Gary Selby

…success of the civil rights movement and that they will be inspired by the way Dr. King used the story so masterfully. But I also hope that people come away with the same sense of awe that I did at the courage of the protestors themselves and, particularly, at the incredible grace that they showed toward their enemies. What alternate title would you give the book? I’d have called it “Marching to Canaan” or “Marching to the Promised Land” o…