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Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…moogly, yes, more often than I would have liked. They were classic working-class whites, “Reagan Democrats,” though some were still Dems when I knew them. Many of them worked industrial, highly-unionized jobs, the kind the economy has been bleeding away for decades. The thing to know about them—the thing I learned too late, unfortunately—was that every time something changed in their lives, it changed for the worse. And I mean just about every sti…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…tants were effectively “paralyzed,” incapable of taking sides in the great class struggle of that era. And during the Great Meltdown of the 21st century’s first decade, one heard nary a hint of organized Protestant protest as Wall Street got bailed out while Main Street was left to fend for itself and as Bible Belt states decided that it was better for uninsured poor people to go without medical attention than to expand federally-paid Medicaid cov…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…ormalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its past and present clergy for complicity in the abuse. The original lawsuit listed SGM, Mahaney, Tomczak, and six other pastors from CLC and Sovereign Grace Church as defendants. The amended filing added five new plaintiffs and CLC, as well as CLC’s day school, the Fairfax church, and two more pastors as defendants. One new…

Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense

By Mary E. Hunt

…there was/is such a course teaching young men (I was the only women in the class and I did not receive the warmest welcome on record) how to handle confessions. The priest professor role-played a variety of penitents while the students took turns acting the part of the priest. One young man decomposed in the chair when the penitent confessed her alleged sin of oral sex. (Note the priest could not bring himself to act out a man who engaged in oral…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…ote, what was interesting for me as a journalist was the intersection, the class politics of denominational differences. So that people who had been on the outside, the crazy Pentecostal snake handlers, and the suburban evangelicals, those people were coming into power; and the golf-playing, scotch-drinking Episcopalians were losing their grip. All this other stuff was happening in terms of religion in the United States at the moment when I starte…

Dispatches from the Workplace: The Big Squeeze

By Kim Bobo

…rican Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America. But this book is in a class of its own. Why? First, Greenhouse, a longtime New York Times reporter is a superlative writer—despite its considerable length (384 pages), The Big Squeeze is an engaging and lively read. Second, the issues of work in America and the way so many workers are being treated are the critical moral issues of the day. If, as the Catholic Bishops say, the true moral judge of…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…or family planning clinics in low-income neighborhoods that served working-class Catholics, even as they knew that better-off women could access contraceptives through private physicians. But the approval of the Pill in 1960 and growing bipartisan support in Congress for a national, federally funded family planning program eventually swamped their opposition and they gave up the fight. I’ve been told by more than one source that by the mid-1970s,…

Can a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…linity that only wants to have sex and socialize with other black men. But class is a factor here, too. While many gay African-American men have the economic mobility to reside outside of the black community and are likely to intermingle with the dominant gay culture, most DL men don’t. “They’ve created a community of their own, a cultural party where whites aren’t invited. Labeling yourself as DL is a way to disassociate from everything white and…

Double Helix: Improving U.S. Science with Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…by the very folk who have tried to sneak or cram creationism into science classrooms. Nervous questions ring out: Which ethics do I teach? How do I know what’s ‘right’? Start slow and easy. First, ethics does not equal religion. Second, remember the costs of not doing this. Finally, remember Rachel; she’s not asking for us to get down on our knees and pray during Biochemistry class, but simply to start by not ignoring and ridiculing who she is. A…

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

…ctrical cable to publicly unmask the then-prophet as a VP of corporate agribusiness giant Monsanto). In more recent decades, explicit reference to the Veiled Prophet has itself been veiled—either abbreviated or replaced with new, generically wholesome titles for the events sponsored by the Veiled Prophet Organization, like “Fair St. Louis” or “America’s Birthday Parade.” As both exclusive ritual and public spectacle, intentionally exotified mumbo-…