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Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…pundits and pollsters.) But some are becoming more circumspect in light of significant membership losses and institutional belt-tightenings of their own. Dorhauer takes the losses in stride, even in grief. He sees around him “a mature faith that refuses to see death as the last word,” That’s one reason why even a diminishing UCC will likely continue to powerfully shape American Christianity and culture. That, and the fact that the UCC wields consi…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…awaiting trial, for a rainbow-themed paint job that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice charged was promoting “emblems of homosexuality.” Taiwan: Marchers hope for marriage equality in near future Reuters reported that on July 11, “[t]housands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei…months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marria…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…OUP did a wonderful job. The bright pink evokes Gran Fury’s Silence=Death sign, which became a symbol of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 90s, especially the work of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which is the basis of one of my chapters. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One of my favorite books in the field is Leigh Schmidt’s Hearing Things, which is historically and theoretically rich in addition…

The Sacred and the Dead: Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture

By Deborah J. Baiano Berman

…e morning comes, it’ll do you fine. Till the morning comes, like a highway sign, Showing you the way, leaving no doubt, Of the way on in or the way back out. ~ “Till the Morning Comes” A long time ago in a faraway land, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Deadheads. My thesis was that Deadheads were the embodiment of moral community worthy of notice and an example of how community—as Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood it—can be achieved in a society…

Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”

By Peter Montgomery

…d by the hopeful, and then celebratory, pro-equality crowd. People carried signs identifying themselves as “Baptists for Marriage Equality” and “Catholics for Equality.” A person wearing a T-shirt from DC’s Wesley Theological Seminary carried a sign declaring, “As Christians, we are called to EVERYONE.” Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion includes only a short reference to the religious liberty battles that are bound to come. Kennedy writes…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…unselor, had been there all along, paying attention and flashing the peace sign with his long, aging hippie hair and Hush Puppies. It just took the right words at the right time for Lindsay to notice. “Maybe you’re tired and broken?” Rosso asks Lindsay as she slouches and cringes. “Your tongue half-twisted with words half-spoken and thoughts unclear? What do you want me to do? To do for you, to see you through?” “Why are you talking like that,” sh…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…um identifies the mark: Cain is to carry inscribed on his face the holiest sign of all, the “great and honorable name of the LORD.” ______________ *Aramaic had replaced Hebrew as the more commonly spoken vernacular after the Babylonian Exile, and scholars think that the practice of creating Targum—the Aramaic word for translation—began soon after, with new versions and additions continuing to appear for centuries. In the synagogue, scriptural read…

A Letter to the Pope in Advance of the Synod: Why Must I Get My (Lutheran) Marriage Annulled?

By Randall Wedin

…t I am a full and welcome member of that family. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I converted because the woman whom I love, and have been with since December of 2000, has deep and long family ties to the Catholic Church, and we want to share a spiritual community. We became engaged four months ago and I believe it is God’s plan for us to be married. (What I mean by that is that my heart/mind/body “knows,” at a profound and ineffable level…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…church supported me but the Southern California conference forced me to resign. Technically, I’m still a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and have my ministerial credentials though I suspect they will take them away eventually. In fact, I’ve performed a few same sex marriages since I was asked to leave my position. What happened at Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary? Both institutions basically told me I needed to…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…opal Church: You might be an Anglican schismatic if… 1. You’ve changed the sign out front from “The Episcopal Church of St. Whatsit” to “The Anglican Church of St. Whatsit.” Or, 2. You’re now under the authority of an Anglican bishop in, say, Nigeria rather than the Episcopal one installed in the cathedral nearest your church. Or, 3. Your Vacation Bible School features a rollicking game of “Pin the Tail on the Antichrist” in which the cartoon imag…