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Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…how I am a hater, please, please tell me how getting a husband is going to change this horrific situation for millions of black women in this country. As for CNN’s shoddy report, ignoring it is the best remedy, right along with Faux News. There are more important things to talk about, such as that eye-opening survey on black women’s net worth, and the fact that unemployment in the African-American community is 15.6% across the country. Why can’t t…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…me up with a theory which history plus change in society multiplied by the change in technology equals the future. It’s a bit of a glib equation, but humanity keeps repeating things. We have a Hitler and then we had Milošević. Why did that happen? Then you factor in the change in society. No elected government—or even dictatorships—are saying, “let’s have slavery.” No one is putting it forward as a sensible idea. The Arab uprisings came through Tw…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ffice of apostle.” This, he said, “constitutes the most radical of all the changes.” And it’s a “reformation” because the changes he was seeing in global Christianity were “at least as radical a change as those of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago”: “Particularly beginning in the 1990s, but having roots going back for more than a century, new forms and operational procedures have been emerging in areas such as local church government, inter…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…me of the most affecting. Getting out is a matter of the person wanting to change. They have to be ready to accept that they might be wrong and to take real accountability and make amends with their loved ones. The book’s conclusion flatly confirms that some will not change, and loved ones must let them go, grieve, and move on without them if they can. As a journalist, Cook wrote an article about families affected by QAnon and got many more emails…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…u came to the United States? When I started learning Vipassana, everything changed. I became a real Buddhist. The dharma you see in America is pure, as opposed to Asian Buddhism in which you go to a temple and there’s nothing else. I have credibility in saying that because I’ve seen both sides. Not that American Buddhism is free of problems, but it’s the purest Buddhism. Of course, if you go to a real Zen master in Japan, that’s even purer. It is…

Women in Combat and the Priesthood: A Response to Mary Hunt

By Marian Ronan

…hurch and the Military, a book that offers a complex analysis of women and change in and outside both institutions. I summarized Katzenstein’s perspective in a review that appeared in New Women New Church, the newsletter of the national Women’s Ordination Conference in spring 1999: Katzenstein’s analysis will be of special benefit to Catholic feminists perplexed over whether women’s ordination necessarily constitutes co-optation into a patriarchal…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…dical procedure. He explained, “They want to change her mind, they want to change her heart, they want to change the way she sees herself in the cosmos.” The state’s solicitor general countered that Mary’s religious rights had not been burdened because Missouri law did not actually require her to read the brochure or even view an ultrasound, only that these be made available. This interpretation of the law had never been made explicit to Planned P…

“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f those who had been so mistreated. It was in 2009 when you and I had an exchange by email about my response in RD to your review of Mitchell Gold’s book Crisis. You told me back then that you were in a rethinking process—at least willing to be in dialogue. What do you think it would take for the traditionalists, as you call them in your book, to come into that kind of dialogue? Do you think your book can move some of them? I hope so. I think that…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…and spiritual creativity took root first. These established a wide-ranging change that affected all aspects of the society. We still talk romantically about al-Andalusia. But what impresses me most was not the tumultuous political history per se—nor whether Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side—as much as the impossibility of their coexistence without the comprehensive affect of their mutual intellectual cooperation. This bred a new par…

As a Latina Millennial I Have to Ask, Does the Catholic Church Stand a Chance?

By Fabiola Carrión

…is as much of an issue of social justice as economic disparity or climate change. Furthermore, our reproductive health is an issue of integrity and autonomy. As millennials are characterized by our independence and open mindedness, the failure of churches to respect this right will mean that fewer of us will feel comfortable within their walls. Millennials are delaying marriage and finding alternative ways to form families. With a church that est…