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RDPulpit: Obama Missed the Hope in State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…of the Bush Administration under the rubric of “hope.” Modest, incremental change motivates no one. Old Testament scholar and theologian Walter Brueggemann says that when “serious hopefulness” is locked out of the public conversation, the consciousness created to serve the interests of the powerful cannot be pierced, and the idea of real change cannot be entertained. What is most needed is what is most unacceptable—an articulation that redefines t…

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

By Kasai Rex

…we face in the headlines and in the household, perhaps it might be time to change churches. In Baltimore, symbolic gestures on the pulpit are best complemented by concrete actions in our streets. Their hands forced, some of Baltimore’s black churches have stepped up to meet this demand. Prayer walks have been held by congregations at the same Penn-North intersection where CNN and others incessantly broadcasted images of a torched CVS as if it were…

When It’s OK to Ignore the Pope

By Patricia Miller

…wisdom. Pope Francis does not know whether, or to what extent, the climate changes (in various directions) of the past several decades are anthropogenic—and God is not going to tell him. Nor does he know what their long term effects will be. If anything he teaches depends on views about these things, all he will have to go on is what everybody else has to go on, namely, the analyses offered by scientific specialists who have studied the matter. As…

Douthat: Conservatives Will Take Their Ball and Go Home if Francis Changes “Their” Church

By Patricia Miller

…protects the church from self-contradiction. But they might want to consider the possibility that they have a role to play, and that this pope may be preserved from error only if the church itself resists him. So get with the program, Francis. Don’t go all Jesus-like and seek radical change or you might find your collection plates a little empty. And that’s the crux of Francis’ challenge. The changes he is promoting, while actually quite modest, a…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…ystem. Also, as we both are alluding to, there may not be much substantive change after all is said and done despite the report’s findings, which hardly warrants an “apocalypse.” It’s an indirect way of saving face for the SBC itself, in light of all the abuse uncovered. An apocalypse would mean destruction (and potentially, resurrection). We’re not there yet. Not even close. I’m also very tired of the ways in which these Manichaean us v. them “te…

Talking Back to a Mormon Elder: Religion versus Reality

By Brent D. Beal

…on—that being gay is a choice. What happens when these same members discover otherwise? There is often a real sense of betrayal when the world is discovered to be something other than that promised by a trusted religious leader. “We cannot change; we will not change,” Elder Packer declared. Didn’t we hear something similar from another apostle during the Church’s struggle with the issue of blacks and the priesthood? At the end of the talk, the “be…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…political system is structured to prevent such a solution. The only way to change the depraved American situation will be to change its depraved political system, and that will require a change in who controls that system. Maybe Matt Bevin is right. Maybe you can’t regulate evil. But you can vote those who abide it out of office. In fact, that’s exactly what has to happen. What I said in 2015 still holds today, I think: Religious advocates for gun…

Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”

By Mychal Copeland

…ery religion evolves. To what degree each is willing to claim language of “change” varies wildly, but they indeed transform themselves again and again, sometimes bending to include a multiplicity of voices, other times splintering. Our chapter contributors ranging from Islam to Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Mormonism all acknowledge the shifts and negotiations that occur within American religious traditions. Even for those whose rhetoric claims a…

Planetary Profiling: Dr. Who Part II

By James F. McGrath

…verse. Of course, the Doctor does change the past; his presence in history changes it—even if that change causes it to be how we already know it to be. I’ve gotten a sense that there’s a semi-eternal aspect to Time Lords, that part of them exists outside of time, allowing them to make changes that other, temporal beings wouldn’t be allowed to make. But mere humans don’t have that ability. Thus, an answer to the question posed by James McGrath in o…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…e many others, O’Connor has chosen not to leave the church but to work for change. Her most dramatic call for change came in 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II as protest against child sexual abuse on Saturday Night Live. She and others have pinpointed one source of the problem: canon law, which does not require cases of abuse to be reported to the police. Instead, a culture of extreme secrecy has prevailed, codified in Vatican nor…