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Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust

By Kevin P Spicer

…phrase ‘elder brothers,’ which had already been used by John XXIII, is not welcome to Jews. The reason is that, in the Jewish tradition, the ‘elder brother’—Esau—is also the brother who gets rejected. One can still use it, because it expresses an important point. But it is true that they are also our ‘fathers in the faith.’ And this way of putting it illustrates perhaps even more clearly the character of our relationship to each other. Still, in r…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…community are alive and one day they will tell us about their experiences, unlike the children who died at Mount Carmel. Comments? We enthusiastically welcome any response to this story, or to any of our features. Write to us!…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…uddhist children or the children of atheist lesbian couples are simply not welcome here. The cheap paperback Easter stories read by Sanders and Conway—no doubt ordered the day before from Amazon Prime—had nothing to do with teaching, or welcoming, or even celebrating a Christian holiday (inappropriate as that itself would have been at a White House event). As this administration did with its craven and phony defense of “Merry Christmas” as if it w…

DREAMing of Faith

By Sarah Posner

…in Columbus, Ohio. They all discussed the biblical and moral imperative to welcome the stranger; Nathan noted how the push for immigration reform “has united the religious community, even for those of us who consider ourselves conservatives.” Many of those conservatives, though, support immigration reform, but not for gay and lesbian people. The Democratic Party was criticized after the midterms for, critics charged, punting on reaching out to “pe…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…n from 21 to 19. The policy change, announced in October, was hailed as a welcome step towards leveling life expectations and opportunities for religious study and service among young Mormon men and women. And it resulted in a dramatic spike of new missionary applications from young Mormon women. (More here.) 3. Mormon athletes prove more popular than Mormon presidential candidate. That’s a hunch, not a scientific observation: we’re still waiting…

It Gets Better: Mormon Edition

By Joanna Brooks

…I can’t write much because the tears are dripping on my keyboard. So I’ll say this: Just watch this. It Gets Better—Brigham Young University edition. Produced by filmmaker Kendall Wilcox. Please watch. Please share. And welcome to the Mormon twenty-first century….

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…Americans in the United Church of Christ have it right: they call it the “welcome table.” The table of military consumerism is not welcoming, so that the eucharist really contradicts that. Dan: To go back to Cavanaugh for a minute, he has this really interesting idea that the nation-state—which is pretty much what you call the “national security state”—has this need to enforce sharp boundaries. Coming out of that is his understanding of torture a…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Sodom. Neither term connoted a “sexual identity.” But both do, now. And that fact raises significant issues of translation I hope to take up in future columns. Comments? We enthusiastically welcome any response to this story, or to any of our features. Write to us! Image “Sheep farmer, Lesbos” by Bryan Ledgard, licensed under Creative Commons….

Four Reasons for Optimism in the Wake of Tragedy—Insights from a Sikh and a Unitarian Minister

By Erik Martinez Resly

…and participated in efforts that make all members of our communities feel welcome and cared for, including food banks, tree plantings, health clinics, sports clubs, and mentoring programs? Erik: It took many weeks before I could pour from a gallon jug of water (while standing) without spilling on someone’s food. The institution of langar illustrates how compassion, or daya, is not an abstract concept but a learned craft. It is not enough to espou…

Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng degrees of responsibility for making the extremists in their ranks feel welcome. In addition, their public statements on these matters cost them nothing, apart from perhaps a little discontent among their flocks. Take the example of the LDS Church’s Brigham Young University. BYU could choose to be among the over 1,000 campuses that already require vaccination for students and employees, but it doesn’t, which means the LDS church is hardly being…