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For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…lem of suffering; instead they represent a radically new way of seeing the world. To see the world falsely is to suffer, says the Buddha, and to see the world through the lens of the Four Seals is to see the world as it really is. And when this clear vision is acquired, suffering simply dissipates. The end of suffering comes only with right vision. So Buddhadharma suggests that you not try to relieve suffering by clinging to what you think will sa…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…in this muddiness, this liminal zone of human relationship, that something new is being born, new life is being fashioned—and we don’t know what that’s going to look like yet. The liminal place can’t stay liminal forever, even though it feels like it in a postmodern age – it feels like we’re going to be living in fluidity for the next-however-long it’s going to be. We are human beings, and we build things. The question that I have is: Can we build…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…d legislators with 300,000 signatures opposing marriage equality. Nigeria: New York Times on Deteriorating Situation for LGBT People The plight of LGBT people in Nigeria continues to worsen in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan signing a harsh anti-gay bill into law in January. The New York Times’ Adam Nossiter reports that the law not only bans marriage, but makes it a crime to join or support a gay organization or “directly or indirectly” m…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…omen in a women’s group. My book on trauma Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World has sexual violence at its center, primarily as it impacts women’s lives. And my day-to-day work at Union has included, among other things, empowering women’s voices in interfaith work, which has been so dominated by men. Elaine Howard Ecklund: At the beginning of my career, I did not much feel that my gender was that influential. I am at a different period n…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…datory and harmful adoption practices. Now, as Ruth Graham reports for The New York Times, Bethany takes the position that “Christians of mutual good faith can reasonably disagree on various doctrinal issues, about which Bethany does not maintain an organizational position.” This, of course, stops short of endorsing LGBTQ identities or same-sex marriage. Still, it’s a significant positive change, so it’s worth asking what motivated Bethany to take…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…unlikely setting, The King’s College, an evangelical Christian college in New York City, provides an excellent case study for the way this phenomenon is manifesting itself among young evangelicals. The King’s College campus is comprised of two floors in the Empire State Building and some office space in a neighboring building on Fifth Avenue. The approximately 300 students who attend King’s are thoughtful, considerate and serious. They are also i…

Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

By Steve A. Wiggins

…y lifestyle I know I’m contributing to the problem. It’s a long commute to New York City, but even on a bus I contribute as the plate is passed every day. Carbon emissions get me to work, along with thousands and thousands of others. It’s a chaotic system. For businesses tied to the weather-closing status of the New York City Public Schools, there’s yet another ethical element. During one of New York’s worst storms—last year—Mayor de Blasio kept t…

The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…d tribulations on the road. The most famous of these incidents—their 1970 drug bust in New Orleans—is forever memorialized in the studio version: “Sittin’ and starin’ out of the hotel window. Got a tip they’re gonna kick the door in again. I’d like to get some sleep before I travel, But if you got a warrant, I guess you’re gonna come in. Busted, down on Bourbon Street, Set up, like a bowlin’ pin. Knocked down, it gets to wearin’ thin. They just wo…

No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…ive view of the news,” along with a conservative wire service and chain of newspapers. Rush Limbaugh stepped up to meet this need. Limbaugh rose to prominence after the 1987 repeal of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine, which had mandated honest and equitable on-air treatment of controversial issues. The repeal ushered in the era of conservative talk radio, and Limbaugh’s bombastic style set the tone. The election of Bill Clinton in 1992 heightened Limba…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…st who’s happy there.” RNS, he says, is now “run by a publisher of questionable character and an editor in chief who by all accounts has no idea how to manage a team.” Asked what he plans next, Merritt says that given the disarray at RNS, “perhaps it’s time for a new religion news outlet.” There are “plenty of competent religion writers” who could work for “an organization built for the 21st century.” For now, Merritt says, he is “thinking very se…