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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…indering social mobilization against the economic order today. What has to change for this to change? Are new kinds of theologies or religious organizations necessary? A lot of people—some religious, some not—are quite confused these days about how a market economy works and largely ignorant about the nature and causes of the transfer of wealth to the top one percent of the top one percent of earners. There are a lot of people between the 50th per…

A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…act (or don’t) on a daily basis. In the end, I think, movements for social change seek to transform everyday life so it becomes safer, less oppressive, and more joyful for more people (and other creatures). So it makes sense that the roots of a radical ethic for social change can be found in the best parts of our everyday lives. This relates to the social role of religion. Religion has often provided this “second language,” as Robert Bellah and hi…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…rah Palin made sure everybody knew she still doesn’t believe in that hopey-changey thing: I must assume that you too, knowing that no, we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want, we must restore America and restore her honor! In both cases, the message is the same: to hell with going somewhere new. We want to get back to square one. (And the squares sent up loud amens.) It’s that opposition to change, the fundamental inability…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ours or incorrect information hold sway. “This referendum does not seek to change Bahamian society or our traditional values – instead it seeks to change the Constitution so that it more clearly reflects those values, and our shared belief in fairness.” Bermuda: Anti Marriage Equality Group Granted Charitable Status An anti-marriage equality group led by religious leaders, Preserve Marriage, was granted charitable status even though its applicatio…

The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…suggest that this figure obscures some fundamental splintering. How so? A change is taking place in evangelicalism, and the change is generational. The young tend to be much more social justice-minded than their elders. They care about abortion, but they don’t care about gay marriage or a lot of the other national sins that Jerry Falwell mentioned. They tend to be more tolerant, more outgoing, more receptive to the ideas of their own peers. But t…

A Kinder, Gentler Homophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. But, look carefully at what Merritt does NOT want the religious right to change—it’s mind or it’s heart. Instead, like my sister—the insidious goal of this line of “love the sinner, hate the sin” is merely a kinder and gentler form of homophobia. The ultimate goal is to change the homosexual into—a non-homosexual! Our job is to mirror Christ by loving people in spite of our differences and advocating for our culture’s disenfranchised groups. Onl…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…hate them even more for being untrustworthy and weak. Niebuhr’s courage to change was one of his chief strengths, although some things about him did not change. He always aspired to realism, even as a pacifist. He thrived on paradox almost to the point of treating it as a criterion of truth. He never relinquished the defining Social Gospel conviction that Christianity needed to be a force for peace, social change, and social justice. And he never…

Obama and the Unbelievers: The Future of Secularism

By Bruce Ledewitz

…to fade. This will be more or less a natural response to these demographic changes. In an inauguration, there is not an opportunity to address religious pluralism by having a lot of speakers. The Warren and Lowery prayers, for good or ill, were the exposed bookends of a national event. In the future, those prayers will have to become more inclusive. In fact, this change might have been ushered in already if the United States Supreme Court had not…

Faith in Public Life Responds: Common Ground Gets Results

By Katie Paris and the Faith in Public Life Team

…m from their own communities. When Richard Cizik began to focus on climate change, some conservative religious leaders called for his removal as vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals; he is under attack again for speaking in support of civil unions last week. David Gushee and Joel Hunter have taken considerable heat from evangelical peers on issues ranging from climate to torture to abortion reduction….

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iage and registration ordinances “to bring them into line with domestic UK changes such as same-sex marriage.” Gibraltar: Government proposes marriage equality legislation The government of Gibraltar is proposing legislation to allow same-sex couples to marry legally; the changes will explicitly protect the rights of houses of worship to continue to make their own decisions about what couples to bless. Poland: Marriage equality may be years away b…