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I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…in the late 1960s. Father John Cusick, who established the first archdiocesan young adult ministry in Chicago in 1977, also had a hand in the development of Theology on Tap in the early 80s. Held in a bar, this lecture series was designed to attract young people who weren’t necessarily showing up to church on Sunday morning. Dioceses around the country now have similar programs. Delis Alejandro, pastoral associate at St. Monica, credits Cusick fo…

Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism

By Patricia Miller

…e Red Mass the Sicilian salute. He threatened to boycott the University of Chicago after a law professor there noted that all five justices who upheld the prohibition of “partial-birth” abortion were Catholic, suggesting it may have influenced the outcome. His abhorrence of these suggestions was a rejection of the old-school notion, still very much in evidence when he came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, that Catholics were beholden to the Vatican…

“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…e government and other institutions have failed. Rev. Brown, who heads Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, linked black farmers and urban growers in Maryland with local black churches to “pipeline fresh food into some of Baltimore’s most destitute communities.” Espousing a philosophy reminiscent of Marcus Garvey, BCFSN believes that only by creating our own food systems, can black Americans “define their own reality and name their own solut…

In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes Less Is More

By Richard Flory

…urches in this mix as well. I could list several in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, or any other large metropolitan area, that are attracting large numbers of young, college educated congregants. Yet in many cases, these churches represent the problem faced by any mass event: it is easy to attend, and equally easy to avoid deeper commitment to the life of the church. The point is that what is often missed by these large scale surveys—and the media…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…minorities without reducing race to class—as white liberals basically do. Sanders has struggled the most in this regard, and perhaps that is tied to the fact that he lacks a certain Bill Clinton skill. That is, Sanders has been unable to connect with African Americans at the level of religious culture, or at the level of a culture imbued with themes of religion even beyond the formal institutions of black religion. Bill Clinton, rhetorically at l…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…ned. Then I went to divinity school, and now I’m starting my own church in Chicago. A lot happened to get me to the point of wanting to start a church, and at this point I’m in pretty deep as far as Christianity is concerned. However, something I’ve found hard to admit is that the real, physical space of the Christian church—which has become important and life-changing for me—is nonetheless full of people, stories and symbols I can still have a ha…

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…re grad students in a social science master’s program at the University of Chicago when we started dating.) When we got around to actually designing the research project we were about to become first-time parents, and we wanted to know if there was anything we needed to be aware of to raise our kids! What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Families that combine Jewish and Asian heritages create homes marked by strong Jewish identi…

When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…rst page of Interfaith Leadership, Patel writes that “my own position as a Chicago-based, broadly progressive, Oxford-educated Ismaili Muslim who leads a nonprofit organization puts me in circles where I am far more likely to be in relationship with highly educated, city-dwelling, liberal Jews than with evangelical pastors leading house-churches in western Oklahoma.” But why should Patel and those highly educated, liberal Jews want to fight in the…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…king. In what is, by today’s standards, an inconceivable display of bipartisanship, a nearly unanimous Congress approved the federal RFRA in 1993 as a response to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the firing of two Native Americans who lost their jobs as drug counselors after using peyote during a religious ceremony. But modern iterations of this type of legislation (See: Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi) have changed the RFRA game. This new fram…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Christian legal nonprofit, “dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Liberty Counsel is an anti-LGBT hate group, and a quick scan of the organization’s client roster reads like a who’s-who of elected officials, business-owners, and “ministries” that cite religious liberty to deny services (and basic dignity) to LGBT people. In a “special message” sent to evangel…