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Religious Leaders On Anti-Muslim Frenzy: “Silence Is Not An Option”

By Sarah Posner

…week, many Muslim children are anxious and fearful that their classmates “will look at them like aliens.” A number of religious leaders, including Mattson, spoke at the press briefing, which was one of the most highly attended press events relating to religion that I’ve seen — except for events hosted by religious right groups. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, speaking to evangelical Christians enga…

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…it. But certain groups of constituents really need to build relationships with a scientific community. Once you have a relationship with someone, and you don’t think they’re crazy, then information can pass over that relational tie. There’s certain groups of people in our society who are pretty unlikely to have relationships with scientists. That’s something that we’re working on: let’s bring scientists into faith communities to give talks about…

Conservative Hardliners at Synod Prompt Question: “What Are We Doing Here?”

By Patricia Miller

…ge. All that to basically certify what’s been more or less the status quo? With the more progressive bishops like the German bishops’ conference already experimenting with a more pastoral approach to divorced and remarried Catholics and a host of LGBT friendly churches? Not to mention that very few priests in the West refuse to marry couples who cohabitate before marriage. But it’s hard to feel sorry for Pope Francis and those pushing for a more “…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…mmunity. Why then do some people hone in so much on this issue? What is it with this fixation within the United Methodist Church and across the more conservative factions of all the denominations of Christianity? There’s a real hang-up around sexuality. Variance in sexuality is hard. It’s one of those things that folks have a real hard time grasping. Culturally, there have been taboos for a long time, and some folks have trouble letting that go. I…

How Religion Shapes (or Doesn’t) Our Views on Public Issues

By Daniel Schultz

…in the desert. Not many, anyway. What does work? Not much, it would seem. At least not when it comes to the subjects Pew chose to poll. But go back and take a look at the list of voter priorities: 90% say the economy is a “very important” topic. 88% jobs, 78% health care. Get the hint? And that’s with a forced-choice list. If you asked respondents to come up with their own list, it might be even more lopsided. Preachers who want to know what’s on…

Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…sperity as the only gospel message, idolizing “the pastor and the pastor’s wife,” and not dealing with the real stressors in black women’s lives, this situation is not going to change. There are black women across the high and low end of the economic spectrum; however, the majority of them have five dollars of net worth in the bank, trust Jesus, and hope that a man who is like “The Pastor” will emerge when the doors of the church open. Despite my…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he Bible.” But those “moral objections” seem to be of less concern to a growing number of Americans: Just under half of Americans (45%) say they think engaging in homosexual behavior is a sin, while an equal number says it is not. Those who believe homosexual behavior is a sin overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage. Similarly, those who say they personally feel there is a lot of conflict between their religious beliefs and homosexuality (35% of the pu…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…r particular End Times means entering into real common-ground conversation with our neighbors. Entering with one’s own ideas intact and with respect for the accepted protocols that allow real conversation to take place—but not presuming to enter at some kind of superior level. Not long ago I helped lead a graduate seminar in leadership in which I challenged the old idea of the heroic leader and messianic deliverer; an idea that has deep roots in a…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…ing of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Housed within the new museum will be the Center for the Study of African American Religion, a $10 million project that aims to further research on the inextricable role spirituality has played in black America’s past and present. I took a moment to speak with its recently appointed chief curator [and current advisor to RD’s “Remapping U.S. Christianities” initiative], the Rev. Yol…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…z. But if survey data still show what they have revealed so far—that Trump will continue to win at least a third of the most frequent church-attending evangelicals—it undermines anti-Trump evangelicals’ main argument about the suspect evangelical identity of Trump’s supporters. Even by the strictest definition, plenty of “real” evangelicals are in Trump’s corner. It’s also worth noting that evangelicals using church attendance as the measure of tr…