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Archbishop’s Theology is Wearing No Clothes

By Mary E. Hunt

…hat deserves an equally deeply-reasoned response. To claim otherwise is to buy into the smoke and mirrors that some religious professional employ to ply their trade. Fortunately, we live in a society where citizens like Mr. Dolan are entitled to their opinions, however spurious their claims may be. But not even Catholics are under any obligation to privilege such nonsense simply because he has an ecclesial title. “The True Meaning of Marriage” is…

Rum and Gunpowder: How to Take Out a Vodou Doll

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…scarf are red, his shirt a light purple. He looks like something you would buy at a tourist stand. In fact, as I gazed at him, that is where I assumed he came from. But no. He was discovered by workmen. The computer in one of the university’s classrooms had been crashing, and no one could fix it. Finally a tech person came and took the computer out of its cabinet. There he was, wedged behind it. The computer was fixed. My colleague did not want to…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…hird of them have been relatively centrist “Carter-types” all along. These numbers are neither static nor crystal clear—they probably inched upward along generational lines and shifted by a few percentage points from time to time, depending on how we measure evangelical status and centrism. (Many evangelicals take more progressive stances toward poverty, militarism, and the environment than feminist and LGBT issues.) Meanwhile, the media spotlight…

To Be Atheist, Feminist, and Black

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…an oxymoron and that they live on the “margins” of their communities. The numbers of “out” or publicly self-identified atheists of color are increasing. African American women are a vocal and visible part of this population. In the book I devote a considerable amount of time contrasting the cultural, social, and political concerns of African American atheists/humanists with that of white atheists allied with the New Atheist movement. I argue that…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o with his writing, but even Russia’s state-sponsored media didn’t seem to buy that flimsy reasoning. Keating also speaks with Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of church-state relations in Russia, who is the Russian Orthodox Church’s chief spokesman and a culture warrior who has defended the country’s anti-gay laws as “merely an effort to prevent the efforts of gay groups to ‘persuade this society by manipulation or dishonest political campaigning.’” Ch…

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

By Hollis Phelps

…States projects its “morality” onto culture at large, and the media often buy it with little hesitation. It’s difficult to assume that they are acting in good faith, though, and in this sense they mirror the president. Writing for the Washington Post, Greg Sargent recently noted that Trump’s declaration of a national emergency is “a sham based on nothing but bad-faith motives and invented metrics.” While a solid majority of Americans aren’t buyin…

New Study: Motivation Doesn’t Improve Group Success

By Arri Eisen

…human social cohesion and organization—groupwork, if you will. Whether you buy any of these theories or not, it’s hard to disagree with the assertion that religion is a profoundly social enterprise. Is there something inherently special about groups and how they think—something more than the sum of their individual members? As an educator and observer of learners, it makes intuitive sense to me that human groups have what scientists call ‘collecti…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…y like America with such high divorce rates on the one hand and increasing numbers of people in interfaith and same-gender marriages on the other, very few of the families around us look a Christmas crèche. Strawberries on a theological cake Francis devotes an entire chapter to “The Blessings and Challenges of Womanhood.” His statement that “the role of women in the Church is more than maternal, more than being the mother of a family,” gets us off…

C’mon Muslim Myth Believers! Just Admit It!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in went so far at one of his town hall meetings to grab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab. The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim—less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theories. “Y’know what,” I told my guitar teacher. “What?” he asked mid sip of his coffee. “I’d respect those people a lot more if they’d…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…their psyches as inaccessible markers of meaning and status, than they are tickets to a Premier League match. A Spiritual War? This, at least, is the gist of much of the heated banter on the uprisings on the Facebook fan page of trip hop duo Massive Attack, where one fan drew something of a spiritual assessment from the film Fight Club: “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the m…