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America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

…others). In death Brown instantly became a larger-than-life figure: in the South a frightening golem, and in the North a fiery prophet at the very least, if not quite at the Jesus level (some hadn’t forgotten his Kansas butcheries). Even before the outbreak of the Civil War soldiers in the North were singing “John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave! His soul goes marching on!” The improvised reference to Brown among the uniformed ranks to…

Rick Warren Won’t Denounce Proposed Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…face in the United States where he says he loves gays, and another face in Africa, which is on the verge of pogroms against this community,” said Reverend Kaoma. “We need to hear his voice loud and clear on this issue that gays and lesbians are entitled to full human rights.” Warren’s spokesperson told RD today that he severed ties with Ssempa in 2007: Martin Ssempa does not represent me, my wife Kay, Saddleback Church, nor the Global PEACE Plan s…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ndoms to prevent HIV/AIDS; something that bishops in AIDS-ravaged parts of Africa had already been putting into practice. Commonweal, a Catholic magazine with a mostly conservative stance on abortion, has thrown its hat into the ring, publishing a trio of essays entitled “Can We Talk About Abortion?” The three scholars, Dennis O’Brien, Peter Steinfels, and Cathleen Kaveny, hew closely to hierarchical teaching, which they identify tout court as “th…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…” Christianity of the Byzantine empire in modern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa. In his book on Syriac Christian sources on early Islam, Envisioning Islam, Michael Penn has demonstrated that the boundaries between Christianity and Islam remained porous in the East into the 9th century. As they adapted to the changing realities of Muslim rule, Eastern Christians increasingly sought to articulate their own identities in contrast to Muslims (and ot…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…pire. It can be a source of hope for the oppressed, as it was in apartheid Africa; a critique of imperialism and commercialism; a call to remember the impact that class and gender can and does have on power dynamics. The book is more than a Doomsday Clock. Likewise, “that zombie crap you teach,” as one relative not-so-gently expressed his opinion of my course, matters. It matters because examining the monsters we fantasize about (zombies or otherw…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…utward in every direction from its traditional heartland: south into black Africa, east into Southeast Asia and the Philippines, north into Europe. And also West: the fastest-growing religion in the United States is Islam. Islam’s thrust northward into Europe, the heartland of Western culture, is worth a closer look. Islamic immigration into France has been so massive as to reverse the verdict of the battle of Tours; southern France now has more m…

Toward a More Inclusive Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…slim communities for years. Globally, key movements in the US, France, and South Africa receive the majority of media attention for more progressive discussions on sexuality and Islam, though a 2011 report shows how pervasive (and deep) these conversations truly are. More importantly, a recent report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) demonstrates that the conversation isn’t restricted to theology and law, but also include…

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

By Peter Laarman

…f God’s covenantal favor, sailed off to the Caribbean and to the coasts of Africa, where, arriving as guests of the indigenes, they immediately declared themselves to be the hosts and owners of all they surveyed. They set themselves up as the judges of the relative worthiness of the native peoples, and very soon this judging was fatally calibrated according to skin color. “Supersessionist thinking is the womb in which whiteness will mature,” write…

The Mormon Moment?

By Joanna Brooks

…h much of the Church’s growth being among US Latinos and in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, tensions between the political and economic interests of the Church’s white, multi-generational American core and its global membership are increasing. Recent political efforts by the LDS Church to support a suite of moderate immigration reform measures in the state of Utah evidence the growing influence of Latino Mormons in the Church. And they point to a…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…iscopalians, default to the constricting policies of their partners in the south, for example in Africa. She observed that when denominations yield to those interests on same-sex marriage, they leave local people in places like New York or Iowa, where same-sex marriage is legal, without pastoral resources. Ministry is not simple these days. It was refreshing to hear a bishop with a clear analysis of how social and religious change happens. In…