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Both the Joy and the Uproar Over the Pope’s Blessings for LGBTQ Catholics are Small Potatoes Compared to this Age-Old Church Problem

By Mary E. Hunt

…even though the Vatican touted it as the most important instance of church change since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The problem is that the Synod, for all of its language of inclusion and moving stories of personal exchanges in the Aula (where the in-person sessions were held in October 2023), set the parameters for the blessing blow-up. The final synod document didn’t even include the terminology ‘LGBTQ+,’ which had been used in its…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…licals. Shifting evangelicals would shift overall public opinion and might change the votes of congress members representing districts with strong evangelical representation. From the end of last year until now, there’s been a steady, persistent attempt to do just that. And much of that pressure was directed toward Mike Johnson. The number of stories about Russian persecution of evangelicals appearing in the religion press increased. A good exampl…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…can have influence,” she says, “is if Catholics sitting in the pews demand change. It’s time for the Catholic laity stand up and demand that the Church truly embody the teachings of Jesus Christ in protecting children.” She sees that as unlikely to happen between now and when the College of Cardinals meets in March to elect a new pope, especially in a Church that “evolves in geological time.” Pope Benedict, Casteix says, “offered empty promises an…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…overnment. When that structure doesn’t work for the humans, God endorses a change. God warns against the change, but does go along. Later, when the new form doesn’t work out, God endorses another change. Again, the approval comes with a warning, but in the end God says, “If that’s what you really want…” This sets up the dynamic that humans discern the form of government they think will work best, and God works with it. As it happens, our form of g…

A Pair of Ex-Gay Leaders Make About Face

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…are, or they are not, homosexual… One cannot repent of something that is unchangeable.” Although Chambers’ change of heart isn’t quite as compelling as Smid’s he was able to admit that he was wrong in his criticism and that he gives his “full support for what is the heart of their campaign—encouraging LGBT teens to choose life.” By which he means that, “Regardless of where someone falls on the debate over sexuality, I hope we can all agree to move…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e latest version back from the government, some if not all of our approved changes are missing. Now we want to go to the public for a vote on four constitutional amendments, so that the necessary changes will be fixed beyond cabinet or judicial reach. Specifically the amendments are: (1) sex defined as male and female only. (2) Marriage as between one man and one woman only. (3) Protection of religious freedom in church education, (4) Limits on LG…

“They Have No Intention of Changing”: An Interview with Sex Abuse Expert on Pope’s Fierce Defense of Accused Bishop

By Evan Derkacz

…n from these panels (I stepped down from the Diocese of Orange Lay Review Board in 2002). Survivors have stepped down in dioceses across the country, the National Review Board, and now the Pope’s own commission. Nothing is going to change. They have no intention of changing. It’s all window dressing. It’s up to Catholics to speak with their wallets if they want to take back their church and for survivors to change the law in order to get justice a…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…h here and there. Your report suggests that the non-evangelical Protestant numbers are looking pretty good for a change. Talk about this and offer any insights you have about what’s going on. Is it just that the more conservative older ranks are thinning out? Well, we’ve now got two years of very interesting data. We’d like to have three or four years, but still, we see this slight uptick among white people who self-identify as non-evangelical Pro…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rding the NAR, he wrote in his 2008 book, Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World, “the term reformation denotes… that we are now witnessing the most radical change in the way of doing church since the Protestant Reformation.” It’s also important to note that for Wagner, the term “new” distinguished the NAR from what he called “old wineskin denominations that include the word apostolic in their names.” When asked about the inspiration be…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…ntalists took control of the Southern Baptist Convention and Mohler had a “change of heart.” No matter that the change served his political interests and came at great cost to many women who believed they were called to Southern Baptist leadership, to the men who supported their callings, as well as to the families of those women and men. Mohler writes about the social impact arising from the disproportionate numbers of males and females. Citing a…