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Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…uslims faiths all on one trip.” From Bethlehem to the Vatican, Riyadh to Jerusalem, Trump’s first trip abroad as US President featured a chain of photo-ops to reinforce this “message of unity” theme. There were also, of course, some less-spinnable moments in Europe, bickering over NATO and the Paris Agreement on climate change, moments which led to the characterization, by an unnamed State Department official, that the President acted like “a drun…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…ise and weathered people of the world is the threat of terrorism. The lead news stories all these last ten days have been San Bernardino or Chicago or the French election, moving to the right in Islamophobia. What if good people and decent governments worldwide commit to less than 2 degrees Celsius as a goal and find themselves spending all their money and energy on a security state, which would shut down the very movements that brought the world…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ther idea….it’s basic spiritual direction. Like the itinerant rabbi, the guru—not to say that I’m a guru—but there’s a long tradition [of that kind of work]. But so many people right now are rethinking everything…saying wait, is this it? They’ve been handed a way of experiencing the world that’s not right for them… Or they’ve experienced some kind of loss, and they don’t have the rituals, rites, forms to express it. Instead, what they have is this…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…if we look among Republicans, we can see the difference between those who trust mainstream news and those who trust Fox or outlets to the right of them.” What the right-wing media ecosystem does is push fear-based narratives, representing members of othered groups—immigrants, Black Lives Matter supporters, trans people—as threats. Thus, Jones observes, even if “the bigger war for LGBTQ rights is clearly won,” trans people remain particularly margi…

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…istic, phony “controversies.” It really shouldn’t have to be said, but it’s not a reporter’s job to further the hate propaganda of an extremist organization in the name of “fair-and-balanced” journalism. Try to imagine for a moment the outcry if a news team reported on an “alleged” terrorist training camp in some rural white community. The reporter barges into a church service with a camera and then intersperses the piece with video of the Oklahom…

Most Catholic Bishops are “Moral Heretics”

By Daniel C. Maguire

…d news” for those they insultingly label un-Catholic and outside the cor ecclesiae (heart of the church), the many Vicky Kennedys of the Church who dare to reject the pelvic zone orthodoxy the bishops have substituted for Jesus’ “good news.” To such bishops we owe prophetic instruction, not homage; forthright criticism, not fawning respect. And when they dress themselves in lavish cardinal red and call themselves “princes of the church” let all th…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…ical skills while also dealing with resonance, mystery, paradox, and conundrum. Literature, it seems to me, is one way. Words like “beauty,” “love,” and “consolation” don’t really have a place in a scholarly diction, and those are terms that might feed a hunger which is now only being fed by fear and rage. Did you end up, as a writer yourself, end up identifying with the authors of the Gospels? I particularly identify with Luke. Although he has mo…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…surrounds and pervades our lives. Herzog does not try to retell well-known stories (nothing here on Google or Facebook) as others have told those stories well. With the exception of Elon Musk (who Herzog can’t seem to figure out), there’s not a single CEO or entrepreneur interviewed in the documentary. Instead, Herzog finds people who have a unique perspective on the changes brought by a digitally connected world, and who will rise to the challeng…

40,000 Fundamentalists Can’t Be Wrong: Investigating Mormon Polygamy

By Sanjiv Bhattacharya

…lercoaster. And that goes for tone too. Polygamy is certainly rich in heartbreaking stories and serious issues, but there were also funny moments along the way. So I’m actually hoping that readers will laugh uproariously in some places and weep sweet tears in others. And world peace would be nice. What alternate title would you give the book? We toyed with titles and taglines till the cows came home, but I think we chose wisely in the end. Here ar…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…comparison between spoken words that were indisputably Graham’s, published words that were basically Graham’s, and words that appear in Where I Am. The published title of the sermon was, “There Is a Real Hell.” Thanks to Liberty University’s archives, anyone can watch Graham preach this sermon to a large crowd in Sacramento, California. In it, Graham described hell as an “unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood subject.” He continued, “I’ve he…