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The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…eligious institution, it intersects them in difficult and ambiguous ways. As much as Christians would like to proclaim God’s sovereign majesty leading the unchanging gospel through the darkness of a fallen world, the truth is, the church, like any human institution, changes and adapts to present circumstances, sometimes better than others. Given the magnitude of the changes being currently experienced in American society, the best hope for white A…

Why $60K and Torture Beats Changing Divorce Law

By Rob Shryock

…challenge other patriarchal Orthodox theological principles. Additionally, change always threatens the very premise of many conservative religious groups: that they are manifestations of original, true religion, distinct from the turbulent, sinful modern world. Adopting the divorce laws of the outside world could potentially undermine the very legitimacy of the community. Because of this, it’s often easier to find work-arounds to rules and traditi…

The Conservative Christian Case for Separation of Church and State

By Jimi Jobin

…f the 19th century, from Women’s Suffrage to Child Labor Laws. But we stir change by stinging the national conscience, by being a prophetic witness for biblical values and obedience to Christ from the pulpit, not by taking the dangerous short cut of merely electing somebody to make a sweeping change in our favor. Pastors are here to bring the optimism of a better world, a Kingdom of God where it can be on Earth as it is in Heaven. We aren’t here t…

Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…. But LDS leaders argued that whatever reforms Vatican II made could never change the fact that it was the Catholic Church’s apostasy from true Christianity that had ultimately led to the need for Joseph Smith’s restoration of the true church. Evangelicals were far more critical of Vatican II’s reforms. In keeping with their longstanding attacks on Catholicism, evangelicals largely saw Vatican II as part of the Catholic Church’s plans to monopoliz…

ELCA Pastor: “Love Trumps Chromosomes”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on all together over the issue. Then, Oelschig had what he described as “a change of heart” on the issue. From the Anniston Star: In June, Oelschig was invited to speak at an ELCA senate convention, where he planned to call for the vote on gay clergy to be overturned. “I meant to speak to that,” Oelschig remembered during an interview in August, sitting at a table just outside the church sanctuary. “By the time I got there—I can’t put a cognitive…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…f recovery? I think it’s helpful to consider the wider social and cultural changes that have taken place over the last century. With the rise of secular liberalism and the gradual dissolution of religion from the public sphere, sources of meaning and purpose are less self-evident than they once were. Although in Canada and the U.S. we have the freedom to choose what to believe in, it’s not always clear what we should believe in. Granted, not all e…

Confession is Not Conversion: Giuliani’s Bizarre Comparison of Trump to St. Augustine

By Candace E. West

…sinking ship. Trump, for his part, says he doesn’t need Ryan’s support. Writing about “Trump, Saint Augustine and True Conversion,” Adam Ployd points out the emphasis the Confessions place on humility, “the necessary virtue for true repentance.” Rudy Giuliani wants to remind us that people can change. I believe that he’s right, but Trump has done nothing to suggest the kind of conversion that Giuliani is talking about. The story Trump is telling…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…s Theresa’s story as part of the larger movements for ecclesial and social change in American Catholicism in her welcome, detailed, and comprehensive book, To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Theresa Kane, RSM. I highly recommend it for the history of Theresa, the Mercy Sisters, and the American Catholic scene of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Disillusioned Catholics are moving on Theresa Kane was enormously consequential. She spok…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…living organisms, there will be no crime. No murder. No suicide. Spiritual change is needed,” he tells Rich. The revelation of the jellyfish’s secret is contingent upon our moral transformation. I don’t share his confidence that the secret to eternal life will be mediated to us through the body of a jellyfish; to be frank, I’m not really convinced that the secrets of eternal life will be mediated to us at all. In that sense, Kobuta and I peer into…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…can convey what it was like to be wrong! Over a lifetime, serious scholars change their minds. But, with today’s obsession with the latest and greatest theory, little thought is given to how minds and theories change. We fall madly in love with one “Prince Charming of Theories” today, only to dump him tomorrow for the next, never realizing, in our promiscuous frenzy, how flighty our infatuated shifts of affection show us up to be. Creating interge…