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New Zealand Passes Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to answer religious objections to marriage equality should take notes from New Zealand’s MP Maurice Williamson. Before the New Zealand Parliament voted Tuesday 77-44 to approve marriage equality—the 14th country to do so—Williamson took to the podium to deliver a wry, yet compassionate, response to the religious people he’s met who opposed the measure. I’ve had a reverend in my local electorate say the ‘gay onslaught will start the day this law is…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…equality and class resentments. In your view, what are the prospects for a new social Christianity? Can working people do it again? Great questions. This notion of a “new Gilded Age” has caught on and not without reason, given the extent of labor’s struggles, not to mention the already historic and still growing chasm between rich and poor in the contemporary United States. But in the book I argue that the analogy only goes so far. The late-ninete…

Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

By Murali Balaji

…Australia emptied clips of his M16 into the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in New Zealand, killing 49 innocent worshippers, his manifesto revealed the depths and scope to which Christian nationalism has entrenched itself into white majority countries. Even as advocates point to growing Islamophobia as the cause of the attack, the larger issue seems to be a reactionary—and almost theological—white Christian nationalism that has taken hold over the pas…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…. We can transcend it. In the vision of Isaiah there is a new heaven and a new earth, a new possibility, and a new testament. Transform everything in your thinking. Level every mountain, raise every valley. The great heresy of all time is, “There is no alternative.” The hell there isn’t! There are alternatives all over the place. That is what is at the heart of the epic biblical moral narrative. You call that thinking at one point “the suicide of…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…ay to act in the interest of the common good, we will learn to manage this newest aspect of pollution. As we can see, the “common good” frame informs the entire environmental discussion—past, present, and future. What is so fascinating about framing the environmental debate, however, is that the “common good” frame extends far beyond the issue of managing pollution. Ultimately, environmentalism is as much a moral debate about American citizenship…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…cclaim of Glory at Sea, Zeitlin redirected his attention from post-Katrina New Orleans to parts of Louisiana that, in the words of Zeitlin, “kind of crumble off into the sinews down in the gulf where the land is getting eaten up.” He made his way to Terrebonne Parish, where he found inspiration on a narrow strip of land surrounded by a dilapidated ring of levees built to protect the two dozen remaining French and Indian families of Isle de Jean Ch…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…personal lives. Against this backdrop, to what degree do you feel that the new formations of folks exiting traditional religion but still feeling some kind of “God-shaped space” will create a new spiritual culture in which resistance to exploitation and degradation is a central theme? I realize it can be argued that strong and growing resistance movements, notably Black Lives Matter, already constitute the new spiritual formations needed by the ex…

One More Day until Marriage Equality vote in New York?

By Peter Montgomery

…reportedly seeking broader religious exemptions akin to those contained in New Hampshire’s marriage equality law. CNN and other news outlets have reported that the governor can extend the legislative session beyond today’s deadline and has said that he would do so. Today, a Buffalo television station reported that the marriage vote would likely take place tomorrow; it said the governor and Republicans were still working on reaching agreement on ot…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…re domestic threats. Their materials are considered required reading for a new private intelligence and militia formation called, American Contingency. “We are definitely living in the last days,” the Patriot Church conference description declared, “but yet we are called to occupy until the Lord comes.” It’s clear that if the occupation comes, it will be the result of the convergence of far right factions seeking to tear down the established insti…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…ctional medicine; traditional Chinese medicine and qigong; and more of the new age spirituality diet and health advice that I describe in my book. Move forward to 2021, and health freedom has become a concept that brings together right-wing libertarianism, conservative Christianity, and new age spirituality, especially regarding vaccinations and Covid regulations. Health libertarianism dates to the antebellum period when the concern was bodily fre…