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Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…een a very long time coming, from Eurocentrism to the Church of the Global South. Not to mention his reputation as an advocate for the poor, emphasizing the Christian Gospel of love, washing the feet of AIDS victims, and more. The new pope’s legacy will stand him in good stead as well, since his parents were Italians, and he speaks Italian fluently—not a bad thing for a pope—even as he has never served in the Vatican curia, the focus of much criti…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…he better approach. The civil rights organizations—Sikh, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian—now critical of the 9/11 Museum’s decisions have more at stake than Christian groups did during the “Antisemitism” film controversy. At that time, Robert Royal, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, explained the general ambivalence: “As far as criticism of Christianity, we’re not as sensitive because, maybe, we tend to feel, Christianity has la…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ook Doug Burton-Christie’s description of Darwin as a “contemplative naturalist” to explore his sense of the sublime as “the ultimate ground for human religious sense.” What do you mean by this? How does this factor into Darwin’s evolutionary theories? In his field notebooks, Darwin’s first reaction to the rainforests of South America was simply: silence hosannah. When he later wrote about these contrasts between awe and destruction he said, “Both…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…that led to the quote-unquote ‘noble cause,’ and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. He has since partially apologized for and retracted those comments, insisting that he should have clarified that he was talking about the congressional refusal to fund the finding and burying of Confederate…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…al dissertation on “The Bible and Its Modern Methods,” my sister-in-law in South Africa adopted a Xhosa girl and asked us to be godparents. I had always made my own Christmas cards and decided this child deserved more than a trip to Baby Gap. As the only alternative emerged—to handcraft an Old Testament for her—I realized I needed to find a way to represent characters that could be seen as either white or black. This gift became a mock-up for the…

The Fall of D’Souza’s Star?

By Sarah Posner

…peech honoraria places him in the “top tier” of Christian speakers, was in South Carolina to speak at a Baptist church, which was hosting “high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives.” (Cue guffaws here.) Smith describes one conference organizer, Alex McFarland, being “distressed” at the behavior of their celebrity speaker. According to Smith, D’Souza told McFarland that he had “recently”…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…tion and creating something new and amazingly vibrant on Washington Square South. But what may ultimately be most endearing was his gift for exploding the cheap piety we’re still imprisoned by as we head toward the 2012 elections. Nowhere was this on display more prominently than in his distinction as the first author to have the word “fuck” printed in the Village Voice. In “Toward a New Definition of Obscenity,” Moody, who had by 1965 screened ba…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e activities. Absence of representatives from Southern and Eastern Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia-Oceania, and Antarctica challenged the meeting’s full identity as “African” and “African Diasporan.” As conference organizers, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Evelyn Parker, and I began and ended the meeting lamenting constraints that prevented wider representation and anticipating broader participation of women on the continent and in the dia…

Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015

By Peter Laarman

…ndeterminate status between “practice” and religion. One would think journalists would be all over this. For the most part, they have not been. RD offered a snapshot of the topic, based on Andrea Jain’s excellent book. Otherwise, there’s not a lot of focus, especially in view of publication this past year of an important historical treatment, The Goddess Pose, by the always-superb Michelle Goldberg. 9. Liberation theology goes “poof”? Maybe it’s o…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…indus from the Indian subcontinent (and a smattering from the West Indies, South Africa, and the Asian Pacific) began to settle in the United States. Though the community slowly established itself in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, the reality for many Hindu immigrants—and their children—was that they were alone in a new country without much of a support network. My story is somewhat similar to Jindal’s. I…