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The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ow that the fight ain’t fair So we keep on waiting—waiting on the world to change. “Waiting” has been called the anthem for a generation, but crystallized within its pretty melodies is a sad and mysterious impotence. The American young adult is powerless while the average Egyptian’s salary is roughly $2000 per year? The Egyptian educational system is far less developed than America’s, and the opportunities for young people are far less numerous. S…

Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

By Daniel Schultz

…es like marriage equality and civil rights. The laws change when attitudes change. Our role is to help change attitudes, to lead by example. Fear, anger, racism and xenophobia have created fertile ground for demagogues. Our voice is going to matter in the coming years. Our role, as always, will be to be a powerful voice for compassion and civil rights. Perhaps, at times, we may even be called upon to join with others to resist flagrant injustice….

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…has the Church launched any campaign either to effect or prevent a policy change.” An earlier version of the Church’s official statement had characterized the as a “moral issue,” but [as the Salt Lake Tribune reported] this language was quickly scrubbed—a clear signal that wheels are turning inside LDS Church headquarters. [UPDATE: The LDS Newsroom disputed the Salt Lake Tribune’s report that the language of the statement had been changed, expla…

The End of the Beginning: The Coming of Egypt’s “Wise Men”

By H.A. Hellyer

…then suddenly appeared yesterday to add yet more pressure on the regime to change. This council of ‘wise-men’ are in an interesting situation. They have the clout, it is believed, to be able to come to an agreement with the regime that those protesting against the regime would accept. Moreover, and the regime probably realises this too: they have the ability, to come together as a collective force that can call for the biggest protests yet. The id…

Despite Excommunication, Door to Women’s Ordination Not Closed

By Roy Bourgeois

…o abuse their power and oppress others, but from the oppressed themselves. Change will come—not from the top down, but from the bottom up. At the core of the crisis in the Catholic Church today are men who claim that only they can know the will of God. And the God they tell others to worship is effectively male and heterosexual. Most young Catholics are leaving the Church because it is anti-women and anti-gay. If the Catholic Church does not chang…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…giously inspired programs of social reform, insisting that the only way to change society is to “change men’s hearts.” That statement comported with his premillennialism, the belief that Jesus will return at any time—before the millennium, one thousand years of righteousness, predicted in Revelation 20—and that projects of social reform were essentially pointless. The only hope for meaningful change, according to Graham, lay in the aggregate effec…

Pope Francis Gets Real

By Patricia Miller

…etitia will be enough to effect even a small halt in the historic decline of the church. It’s a good 25 years to late and more than a dollar short in terms of the change Francis will, or can, make. But at least he has admitted that somehow, things have to change….

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…sels compassion in these cases, but doesn’t explicitly say that they can’t change their gender. That remains implicit in the definition of gender as ‘biological sex at birth.’ In fact, if intersex folk who don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth were allowed to change their gender, then why not trans folk, whose brains might very well be intersexed? You can see how the slope gets slippery very quickly: once we grant intersex fol…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e for the future in the evangelical church? I think we’re going to see the numbers continue to shrink and people leave the church, but within the next 10 to 15 years things will change. We’ll see more affirming churches, more people asking questions and people’s faith developing in ways we haven’t seen before. The evangelical church will dig its heels in on tradition over love and will have a hard time. But, you never know what will happen tomorro…

‘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…