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The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

By Amy Fallas

…alist impulse indoctrinated in a theology of American exceptionalism and a Western “civilizing” project. Yet few have interrogated how American Christianity’s past reckoning with the legacy of its foreign missions can inform the Chau case. It’s a tradition filled with debate over the ethics of its strategies, projects and goals. Never has there been a more urgent time to do so. In 1932, a commission known as the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry p…

Irish Vote Reflects Diminished Moral Authority of Catholic Church

By Peter Montgomery

…orld. “We’re losing the marriage battles — that’s the truth, especially in Western Europe,” said Ignacio Arsuaga, a Spanish activist who founded a global online campaign platform called CitizenGo. (Its board includes Brian Brown of the United States’s National Organization for Marriage.) “Our arguments are not reaching the majority of society. The majority of society just think in the terms that were promoted by the gay lobby: ‘This is a question…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…ed with the extravagance, corruption, and single-minded dedication to self-promotion of political and business elites. Even Islamist groups who normally denounce beliefs like Mbah Marijan’s as “unbelief” rushed to embrace his memory. This is a face of Islam that people in the United States and other Western countries too rarely see. News of Islam too often repeats stereotypes of violence and extremism, projecting the views and acts of a tiny minor…

The Kremlin and the Church: Russia’s Holy Alliance

By Konstantin Petrenko

…influence of new religious movements has led to unfounded accusations that westerners are bribing Russians into joining their sects or, worse yet, recruiting them to work on behalf of foreign governments to destabilize the country. The anti-Protestant rhetoric escalated after many evangelicals took part in the 2004 Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine. These days, many religious groups are at the mercy of local authorities that feel pressured…

A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s year the Christian feast of Easter will be celebrated by the eastern and western churches on the same week, an unusual calendrical event that creates a singularly ecumenical moment for Christian reflection. Of course, in Rome, the story of the Passion that culminates in the Crucifixion-and-Rising this weekend takes place under an unusual cloud of witnesses. Gary Laderman’s provocative question in this week’s RD — what do Christians actually beli…

5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground

By Ilana E. Strauss

…inscrutable for non-experts. And God help you if you’re trying to compare Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy to theological texts to anthropological journals about Siberian Shamanism to neuroscience to quantum physics. It’s a nightmare. Cartoon writers bypass all these problems by showing you directly what they’re thinking about. In cartoons, you don’t have to box ideas into familiar divides or argue over definitions. You don’t need to know…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…the profundity and brilliance of the conceptual work that was done in the Western world for more than 1500 years, when it was dominated by the discipline of theology. But we don’t want to reduce post-Christian criticisms of Christian idolatries to mere anti-faith, either. It wouldn’t do justice to the depths of the agnostic and atheist traditions which are, themselves, deeply prophetic traditions. Still, I think it’s important to stay mindful of…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…Syria Creates Over 300,000 Refugees; the frustration of rebels waiting for Western military support brings them closer to al-Qaeda extremists. 9. Malala Yousufzai, Pakistani Teenage Education Activist Escapes an Assassination Attempt by Taliban. 10. Brazen Taliban attacks in Afghanistan/Pakistan cause over two thousand deaths—but they still participate in negotiation talks in France and Qatar. 11. Boko Haram, Radical Islamists in Nigeria, Increase…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…is in the final eight paragraphs. After charging the cultural influence of Western Christian thought, White then argues for an equally religious response. “Possibly,” he offers, “we should ponder the greatest radical in Christian history since Christ: Saint Francis of Assisi.” The 13th century saint, who preached to birds and wolves, who referred to cosmic and elemental entities like fire as “Sister” might serve as a model, White argued, for a dif…

Using Religion to Get Away With Murder?

By Sarah Posner

…ational Abortion Federation and American Civil Liberties Union have filed an amicus brief in the case, opposing Roeder’s possible use of the argument to support the lesser charge. “This is a dangerous misinterpretation of the law,” Doug Bonney, Chief Counsel & Legal Director, ACLU of Kansas & Western Missouri, said in a statement. “No matter what our political or moral beliefs, we are not entitled to kill those who disagree with us. We would not a…