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Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…this interview, Achtemeier talks about how his encounters with LGBT people changed his heart and mind over the years. His new book is: The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart. Candace Chellew-Hodge : You don’t spend a lot of time in the book dwelling on the so-called clobber passages. Instead, you seem to keen to reach that “moveable middle” by talking about your process of approaching the Bible. I think it’s an effe…

Why Nobody Should Be Surprised That Pope Francis Made Problematic Comments About Judaism — And That He Remains Unapologetic

By Ilan Benattar

…history will know that the latter half of the twentieth century saw a sea change in its relationship to Judaism and the Jewish community. The promulgation of Nostra Aetate (“Our Time”) by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 was spurred in large part by criticism of official Vatican neutrality during World War II. At the time, it was hailed as a forward-thinking document which attested to deep introspection on the part of the Church. Nostra Aetate…

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…

Multifaith Weight Loss: The Problem of Fat, the Promise of Peace

By Shaina Hammerman

…ants claim of their experience. It is unclear whether such events actually change how these Jews and Muslims perceive each other, or if they only change how Jews and Muslims view themselves. In this sense, Luttwak is correct in asserting that Slim Peace is not a conflict-resolution group. The women are not there to bridge differences; they are there to redefine their differences. “I had never spent any time with any Muslim people before this gro…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

Sarah Palin changed her tune on the “hopey-changey thing” last month in Jacksonville when, as the headliner for the Evening of Hope (called “An Evening of Empty Seats” by one blogger), she and the other speakers promoted lots of change—of the religious right variety. And, despite emphatic and repeated assertions to the contrary, they continued to be explicitly political; clearly advocating for some candidates and policies while unequivocally oppo…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…ders of Turkey and Iran, obligated women to uncover their heads and men to change how they covered theirs; in Turkey, some who refused to change their clothes were executed). This merry-go-round is getting nauseating. After June 30th, people wondered whether Algeria was Egypt’s fate, or whether something worse is around the corner. In Today’s Zaman, I argued that Pakistan might be the more operative analogy. With weapons flowing in from Qaddafi’s…

Can a Church Split Truly Be Gracious?

By Adam J. Copeland

…ith an affirmative vote the members of the congregation would soon vote to change their denominational identity, I explained that they were powerless to change their ultimate identity. I preached to myself, as much for them: Despite the weighty choice of the vote to come, a simple truth remains: there is no way to vote your way out of God’s love. No string of denominational acronyms can ever put you beyond the power of God’s grace. Jesus first vot…

Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d in his famous “Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” human beings can change the world, but they cannot change it just as they wish. The revolutionary who has a very clear picture of what the revolutionary future should look like will never see it. The world, and the human opposition, will intervene. This is wise counsel for the well-intentioned revolutionaries, both conservative and liberal: the responsible ones, the ones who note that the c…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality, a fact that some activists suggest shows a social and cultural change in Chile. DW quotes activist leader Ramón Gómez suggesting that cultural change “is closely related to the loss of credibility of religious institutions, especially the Catholic Church.” In fact, a few months ago the country experienced a viral episode in much of the Castilian-speaking world in which an evangelical pastor was expelled from the program “The Switch”, t…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…ho use their hope to construct and enact meaningful and significant social change.” Christian scriptures also inform my thoughts about speech ethics. The New Testament Book of James, for example, warns believers, and especially leaders, about the lethal consequences of an unbridled tongue: Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness….The tongue is a small me…