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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…true editorial independence under the Knights’ sponsorship, however, is an open question. The Knights have long been known as the “strong right arm of the Church,” according to Archbishop Lori, who is the head of the USCCB’s Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, and the Supreme Chaplain of the Knights. Lori told the Catholic News Agency in 2011 that the Knights “are the families that are promoting priestly and religious vocations… [and they] ste…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…ttle community that we both serve. I think this conversation should be had openly. I believe clarity is a reasonable request. I imagine you are under a lot of pressure, and, just like the rest of us, you have your own set of questions and ideas about church, God and faith. I also know that as a pastor, if you happen to hold views that deviate from the evangelical script, you can find yourself at odds with the system that employs you and provides y…

Open Letter to Creflo Dollar

By Lerone A. Martin

…er structure was clouded in a questionable history of inappropriate sexual contact with children? Or would you seek to place your family’s treasures, time, and talents elsewhere? Would YOU tell your catholic neighbors to send their children back to the same parish and priest that allowed children to be sexually abused? Would you tell them its only a “wreck?” Or would you tell them to find another church home? Those who left New Birth came to y…

An Open Letter to Rabbi Dov Linzer on Modesty and Jewish Law

By Shaul Magid

…en and make it a normative legal principle that casual non-sexual physical contact between men and women is permitted, saying to the men, “The Talmud says: It’s your problem, Sir; not theirs.” To instantiate your reading of the Talmud would require you to act decisively to abolish all the legal mandates that objectify women’s bodies and put the onus on the men to take full control of their libido and desire. The ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh sure…

Ask the Dust: Tolerant Heathens

By The Editors

…e are some good signs in this situation. First, your sister has maintained contact with you and your parents instead of shrinking her circle down to only Witnesses. Second she is allowing her children to have a relationship with you. So my suggestion is simple: don’t blow it. Adults get to choose their own religion. That your sister chose something new and not to your liking you is just something you are going to have to live with. Parents also ge…

Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues

By Elijah Siegler

…that “things which have once been in contact with each other are always in contact.” Many pages of The Golden Bough are taken up with instances of practices that demonstrate this belief: using hair or nail clippings to control people, for example. In other words, Frazer imagined societies giving rise to rulers that were at once symbols of enormous vitality and profoundly susceptible to the possibility of some terrible invasion or contagion. In 201…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…years. I came about the time that folks from Burma began arriving in large numbers and uniting in membership with Crescent Hill, and much of my time in those early years was spent trying to figure out how in the world we might be able to be a unified body that includes people who don’t speak English, who have a completely foreign background and cultural experience. It took a lot of hard work but we reached a place a number of years ago where, whil…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…er urban churches—and some of those that have a longer history in a particular city—are now congregations of mostly young creative types who live in the vicinity. What will happen when urban hipster churches, like Hillsong, Oasis and RealityLA, come into contact with other churches and urban ministries? (Indeed, do they ever come into contact or do they each maintain their own spheres of involvement?) And what will become of the Christian urban pr…

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

By Joel Pitney

…o be waiting and to not know what’s going to happen. Right now, I’m really open to the possibilities for ministry and work that is meaningful, and I’d love to do that within the United Methodist Church. But I’m open to visiting with others too, and we’ll see where it goes. I don’t know when I’ll be allowed to preside over sacraments again. That’s a hard thing and will impact my decisions going forward. What did you think of the recent decision by…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…