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Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

By Susan Henking

…ews who have sought a place at the Jewish table. We have been made to feel welcome; not only as “others” but as full members of the tribe. (As long as we kept other communal norms, like making monogamous family units, preferably with Jewish partners and children, but that’s another story.) I hope my work helped to bring about that change. It seems often that voices of the religious right are more audible than those of the (various) religious lefts…

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…out obvious hassle. We came down the side of a mountain, passed an outsize welcome billboard on which, for the first time, the Cyrillic and Latin scripts were flipped, and so knew we were in the RS. It’s the same country. Except it is not. The contrast between the two regions is unexpected—although I only passed through Serb areas around Sarajevo, economically unimportant to the shared national capital (shared politically, that is; demographically…

Evangelical Writers Take Homophobic Hipster Pastor to the Mat—Sort Of

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t the limits of acceptance in the Christian tradition: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.” I’m hardly suggesting shunning Driscoll and his ilk (okay, I would indeed be down for that, but my better angels are pragmatists), but if the developing progressive voice of evangelical Christianity hopes to gain any sustained credibility it needs to develop a sustained zero…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s the kind of Other that women usually must give up a lot more in order to welcome, I had two answers ready: First, childbearing isn’t THAT bad, and don’t you dare pathologize women’s bodies! (SPOILER ALERT: Turns out that childbirth sometimes isn’t that bad, but sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s REALLY DEADLY BAD. But that’s probably a different essay.) And second: Women, precisely because they’ve been an oppressed group, benefit when society a…

Southern Baptist Pres Denounces Gay Bashing in Favor of Eternity in Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ty in hell for their “sin.” The homophobia he condemns is because that desire to “save” had meant by any means necessary, even shunning or shaming gays and lesbians. Now, he wishes to welcome them (but still with the same agenda to “save” them) not to accept them. Tell me again how that’s not just another form of homophobia?…

Atheist Rock Fest, Buddhist Geeks, Megachurch For Sale, Church Bans Fried Chicken

By Michael J. Altman

…Houston blogger posted an internal email that advised local stores not to promote their halal products during Ramadan. A collection of relics from Pope John Paul II, including a capsule of his blood, will tour Mexico this fall. Rev. Roy Bourgeois has been officially dismissed by his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, for his support of women’s ordination. “Don’t tase me bro!” When the head pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in…

Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…the recent flap over Sojourners’ refusal to run the Believe Out Loud LGBT welcome ad. Obama’s hedging on the hiring discrimination issue is just like his hedging on marriage equality: the constitutional lawyer Barack Obama sees the issue quite clearly and fairly. But candidate and president Obama, faced with the advice of strategists and erstwhile supporters that “people of faith” might object, backpedals. For anyone who finds Democratic faith pa…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…our argumentation is by looking at the interminable debate over whether to welcome LGBT persons as full and equal members of congregations—not to mention as ordainable leaders, marriageable people, and members of normal families. Every poll and every wise observer points out that gay-affirming folks have not been winning on account of superior arguments, whether arguments from the Bible or theology or science. They aren’t winning on account of t…

Book of Mormon Musical Creators Do Owe Mormonism a Big Thank You

By Joanna Brooks

…. So, though many Mormons are too sensitive about The Book of Mormon musical to answer the “thank you” from its creators, I’ll say it: Trey and Matt—you’re welcome. *This post originally mistakenly stated that Smith died in a Missouri jail….

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…risible. This is a huge step, one that Church authorities should actually welcome. Their understated reaction to the musical suggests that they do. Popular Blasphemy Ultimately it’s disappointing that Trey Parker and Matt Stone—two of the best satirists around—should have chosen such soft religious targets: missionaries from Utah. The finale to season 14 of South Park (the censured episode about the propriety of depicting Mohammed in a bear costu…