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The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…2015. To be sure, though actions related to sexuality and gender identity garner far more attention within and outside the Church, a revision to canons on sacramental theology and practice of a Church formed out of the Reformation tradition (a tradition noted for its refusal of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church on grounds that only baptism and eucharist were “ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel”) is a potentially huge deal, m…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…y 41% believe Israel is now more secure. And as for Iran, negotiators and hardliners are running neck-and-neck. The stakes are high. If President Obama attempts to take a harder line with Israel he risks alienating his Jewish base. At the same time, if American Jews are not willing to support the president, they risk a diminishment of their own political capital if he does it anyhow. The J Street data, if nothing else, indicates that there is at l…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…ing in Africa, the Catholic teaching that divorced and remarried Catholics are barred from receiving communion unless they are granted an annulment by the Church has come under criticism from liberal members of the church, who had hoped the synod might speed up that process. Instead, it ended on a note of ambiguity, leaving the issue up to an “internal forum,” where a divorced individual should consult with a priest about receiving communion. Afri…

ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ican American communities a disservice and fails to consider why a growing number are shifting away from belief— a shift that is tied to a long history of African Americans challenging belief in God. This narrowing of African American’s opinions on belief misses an important point. “Free thought,” in a variety of forms, has a presence in African American life that is centuries old. To question or deny God is as African American as is embracing the…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…eligion, and Society, is a compelling conservative historian who uses secular arguments to advance religious right ideas. A chief example of this is “The Natural Family Manifesto,” a guiding document of the WCF community, co-written by Carlson and Paul Mero, head of the Mormon think tank the Sutherland Institute. The ecumenical call to arms extols a conservative lifestyle where fathers lead and women honor their highest domestic calling by becomin…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…n invisible tattoo which is only visible through the use of this special smartphone camera app and filter.” In the second scenario, the vaccine would be tied to a second project funded in part by the Gates, ID2020, an international project aimed to provide digital IDs for individuals living throughout the world. This program will allegedly, albeit inaccurately, lead to microchipping. In other words, the vaccine is not the Mark of the Beast itself…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…tholic ordination and the horrors of slavery and apartheid. The filmmakers are careful to include one black womanpriest, Alta Jacko, who compares her decision to become ordained to Sojourner Truth’s resistance to slavery. What an African-American woman says about ordination and slavery is none of my business. And I have no problem with white women’s ordination activists stating, as some do in Pink Smoke, that their courage to stand up to the Vatic…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…ut enough understanding or nuance of the sacred and the profane. “Contemporary liberalism,” he writes, “thinks far too often in terms of rights and speaks of those rights in a way that alienates a lot of regular people.” At the same time, though, he acknowledges how liberals have been forced to react to the right’s demagoguery (see, for example, the Guardian’s Andrew Brown’s post about the Pamela Geller-Robert Spencer duo, or Justin Elliott’s brea…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…as over RD recently spoke with two former Asbury University professors who are part of the evangelical “brain drain.” Like Hawkins and Giberson, they have a history of unpleasant encounters with school administrators. David Wheeler is a self-described “fugitive from the evangelical subculture” who taught journalism for nine years at Asbury, which bills itself as a nondenominational Christian liberal arts university. After the 2014-15 academic year…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…dom or never attend church (17% in 2023 to 24% in 2023), but these numbers are far below the proportion of the general population who have opted out of religious services (54%). And while there has been some fluctuation among the “super attenders,” those who attend church once a week or more, a majority of White evangelical Protestants still report attending church this frequently—a rate more than double the general population (54% vs. 24%). Today…