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Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…nt out the realities indicated by the terms ‘slavery’ and ‘trafficking.’ Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery, addressed the issue in a 2008 interview with Mother Jones. “For the record, I think prostitution is always degrading and exploitative and it is often brutal, but it is not always slavery,” he said. “Those [including many evangelicals] who argue that it is, however well-meaning they may be,…

NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”

By Nicole Greenfield

…sexuality and religion. “It’s as if some Christians feel like they have permission to discriminate or hate,” Bakker told me, “And they get so obsessed with it that they ignore the fact that it would harm children, it would harm women, it would harm people in domestic partnerships. It’s like they’ve just become blind to that because they’ve built up such resentment towards gays and lesbians. And that’s really, really frightening to me.” According t…

Celebrate Jesus with Weird Merchandise!

By Gwynne Watkins

…tween the bunnies-and-eggs version of Easter, and the church-service version. Merchandisers are wise to define Easter by marshmallow chicks and colorful baskets, rather than bring theology into it. But there are always exceptions. One is the Oriental Trading Company. Founded to create cheap plastic toys for carnivals, OTC is now a leading supplier of cheap plastic stuff for church groups and Christian schools. Their party supply catalog always con…

How Not to Support Obamacare

By Peter Laarman

…dispense with the smoke-and-mirrors simulacrum that various faithy “operatives” in DC have spent almost ten years and how many millions trying to conjure….

Are American Christians “Persecuted”?

By Eric C. Miller

…SIS-held territory. So let’s put that cheap argument to bed. At Patheos, Benjamin Corey shakes that cheap argument awake: Can we stop complaining about this bogus idea that American Christians are persecuted now? I mean, really. Can we stop? The world needs us to turn from ourselves and focus on this real persecution, because it’s evil and must be exposed and stopped. However, our own self-centeredness as Americans is getting in the way of the dis…

Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve For Criticizing Capitalism

By Peter Laarman

…dence on foreign energy sources, having failed to turn to renewables while mindlessly pumping more cheap petroleum into our veins. Like other critics of the new encyclical, Brooks chalks up the pope’s hostility to capitalism as the product of naivete or perhaps of churchly antimodernism. What he fails to consider is that the Catholic Church, along with the wider Christian tradition going back to Jesus himself, have never been at ease with the wond…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…men accused of murdering young Indigenous people, raising charges of systemic injustice from Indigenous communities and their settler allies. In 2016, Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old from Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot in back of the head at close range by white farmer Gerald Stanley. Stanley claimed it was an accident and on February 9 the jury—from which all potentially Indigenous jurors had been excluded—acquitted him even of the lesser cha…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…ghout the United States at the crucial time when this country rose to economic dominance. American chattel slavery—an institution indeed “peculiar” to these shores—was by no means an inefficient system that would have died out naturally, as many economic historians once asserted; rather, American slavery was the crucible of everything we think of as modern and rational in respect to its role in creating sophisticated accounting and legal systems a…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…rticular struggle; and they frequently obscure the power dynamics at play, minimizing the difference between oppressed and oppressor (or abused and abuser). Put simply, they forget that only a truth and reconciliation commission has even a chance of being just. I bring all this up because, ever since Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, a chorus of people, including the president elect himself, have been calling for everyone to come toget…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…diaspora through cheap communications technology and easy air travel. Islamist military tactics (Web sites as command centers, commercial airplanes as weapons) developed not simply from Hollywood movies, as was so often claimed following the 2001 attacks, but from the experience that constitutes the Muslim sacred community. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is therefore at least partly right in insisting that spiritual and not merely material forces are at…