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Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…od in all this? Isn’t it just such a time as this that even skeptics would welcome a benevolent and powerful God? Yet God has not intervened to prevent or stop the flow of oil. Indeed, God seems just as powerless as the rest of us. Paradoxically, it may be God’s lack of power that revives us. One might imagine that if God is powerless, then God suffers along with us, and even with the poor miserable creatures poisoned by the oil. Whether God suffe…

Will Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?

By Becky Garrison

…u are allowed to disagree with your leaders and say so out loud. They even welcome it.” In this respect, those Anglican traditionalists who have chosen to break away from the Anglican Communion exhibit behavior one typically finds in American Fundamentalist circles. Like other religious and fiscal conservatives, they can be quite adept at utilizing the Internet, Christian media outlets, grassroots organizations and other vehicles to spread their m…

Bryan Fischer’s and the GOP’s Special Christian First Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…cy, and replace it with shari’ah… it’s sedition.” (emphasis added on the treason charge). Benen writes, “The fact that Fischer is an unabashed bigot doesn’t seem to matter.” Welcome to the GOP’s Christian nation, to which God gave the First Amendment to protect Christians from satanic intruders….

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…of lawn to read a statement declaring that the Soulforce contingent is not welcome and that anyone who ventures off the sidewalk onto the college’s campus will be arrested for trespassing. “We love you,” one of the riders calls out as Kimbrow gives instructions to a police officer who has followed him to the edge of campus. “I love you too,” Kimbrow replies before he turns and walks away from the strangers at his gate. “This is just what happens s…

What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Health Care

By Douglas Harrison

…racial American president of Kenyan descendant giving a hearty White House welcome to a wise – and unmarried — Latina recently confirmed to one of the most powerful positions in the country. For many conservative and fundamentalist Christians, these types of images quite literally betoken a forsaking of the nation’s Anglo-centric, patriarchal heritage, and in this view we will – we must – as that Pennsylvania protester put it, be judged. Another w…

Niebuhrian Humility and DC Punditry

By Daniel Schultz

…a Daily Kos diarist using the handle AZDem. Rosenberg laid into AZDem for promoting “High Broderism,” among other things. Those other things include a false sense of “Niebuhrian humility” in the face of the Bush Administration’s daunting certainty. Said AZDem: President Obama’s favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, famously posited that if you and I disagree, then at least one of us is wrong, and it may be me. That’s known to historians and poli…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h,” 44:1), but here the same pattern of disappointment continues. Jesus is welcomed by the Athenians, much as they will welcome the Apostle Paul some decades later, and they invite Jesus to share his teaching. He is introduced to the priest Apollo, “Defender of the Oracle,” but he learns nothing from the man. Instead, Jesus teaches “a wisdom far greater than theirs” (44:6), then he sets out again on a Cretan vessel called Mars, and sets his sights…

Keep it Catholic, Catholics: A Response to Michael Sean Winters’ Attack on Frances Kissling in America

By Mary E. Hunt

…ted to do. This is what Catholic looks like in the twenty-first century. I welcome and respect such transparent statements from other Catholics so we know who stands where. But such statements are rare when the risk of being labeled “not Catholic,” or “not approved by the Vatican,” or for politicians, being denied Communion, is all too real. I am an active participant in contemporary intellectual and activist work. But I will not engage, especiall…

Is it Kosher Now? The Evolution of Kashrut in the Wake of the Agriprocessor Fiasco

By Benjamin Weiner

…lso goes further in the moral obligations it places on the institutions that would seek its sanction, the tav does not aspire to the mantle of “kosherness,” but is instead set up as a kind of parallel system of okaying a food-provider according to the spirit of Judaism. These are tentative but welcome steps. The ancient rabbis taught that since the destruction of the Temple a Jew’s own table is his or her sacred altar, and should be subject to the…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…the malignant free-market madness that US conservatives have successfully promoted for four decades. Known (and much loathed) abroad as the “American model,” or the “Washington consensus,” this is the Friedman–Greenspan regime of total deregulation wherein the public, in effect, subsidizes big capital to work its high-growth wonders to the ostensible benefit of us all—that chimera known as the trickle-down effect. Because Americans live in a kind…