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Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e were insurmountable. It’s over these boundaries that we’re going to find new friends and new ways of loving God and new ways of engaging God’s reign in the world. That’s where we’re moving and that is frightening to some people who don’t think they can make those leaps. They don’t see women as fully human. They don’t see their gay and lesbian friends as having a personhood from which they can learn or be friends with. Those boundaries remain inc…

How Long Does It Take a Man of God to Admit Child Rape is Wrong?

By Joanna Brooks

…aised consciousness and created critical mass among Catholic laity towards breaking the abuse scandal open. And it sure doesn’t take a degree in gender studies to see how a hierarchical patriarchal institution will protect its own before it protects children. Wrote one Los Angeles Times commentator: “If the Catholic Church had allowed women to become priests, would it even be having this ongoing sexual abuse problem? Maybe the Holy Spirit is tryi…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…living and human to human interactions. If the rest of the year one is sometimes a bit lax about the five times daily worship, Ramadan would be the time to get them back in order. Other Muslims choose other aspects of their own personal habits they wish to improve and focus on them in this month. Like Lent in Christianity. I remember one year, I decided it was a good occasion to stop using the dreaded four letter words. Well, anyway, I tried. It m…

To the One-Percenters, With Love

By Garret Keizer

…he lie. Experience sufficed—the experience of talking to someone a hundred times richer than I was and two hundred times more decent, the repeated experience of meeting sons and daughters of privilege who felt helpless to shake off their sense of shame. And the shame was ridiculous, of course, as I tried to tell them, and as Marx could have told them, because all of us are the servants of a system that has gotten way out of hand. Being successful…

40,000 Fundamentalists Can’t Be Wrong: Investigating Mormon Polygamy

By Sanjiv Bhattacharya

…lercoaster. And that goes for tone too. Polygamy is certainly rich in heartbreaking stories and serious issues, but there were also funny moments along the way. So I’m actually hoping that readers will laugh uproariously in some places and weep sweet tears in others. And world peace would be nice. What alternate title would you give the book? We toyed with titles and taglines till the cows came home, but I think we chose wisely in the end. Here ar…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…surrounds and pervades our lives. Herzog does not try to retell well-known stories (nothing here on Google or Facebook) as others have told those stories well. With the exception of Elon Musk (who Herzog can’t seem to figure out), there’s not a single CEO or entrepreneur interviewed in the documentary. Instead, Herzog finds people who have a unique perspective on the changes brought by a digitally connected world, and who will rise to the challeng…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…thentic by keeping it inside,” writes voter Eric Gorski in a letter to the New York Times, “He doesn’t wear religion on his sleeve because he comes from a generation and upbringing—Episcopalian—that tends not to.” Such a socially determinist explanation might apply if McCain had not made an abrupt move to a different church in the early 1990s. Although his campaign lists his affiliation as “Episcopalian,” McCain corrected a reporter in 2007, comme…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…Buddhist nun. We had already heard that an occupy movement had started in New York, but from what we read, it sounded frenzied and unruly. The following week, however, I received an invitation from the ministers at Judson Memorial Church [Rev. Michael Ellison] to attend a meeting of clergy that would lay the foundation for a movement of faith leaders in harmony with the aims of Occupy Wall Street (which by then had assumed this name). I attended…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rgument used by Jonathan and his people, most importantly his spokesperson Ruben Abati, to justify the new law was that Nigerians demanded it because “homosexuality is not part of our culture and our religion.” Two years later, Alimi writes, “life is harder than ever for LGBT people in Nigeria.” According to a report by the Initiative for Human Rights, 282 LGBT people w Nigeria’s law was steadfastly defended last fall at the World Congress of Fami…

Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’

By Blake Chastain

…is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits. (Matthew 7:15-20) The world is not ending because of exvangelical TikTokkers. The world is not ending because mainline Protestants now outnumber white evangelicals. What we’re witnessing is the end of white evangelical hegemony, the cozy world of privilege and power David Jeremiah is accustomed to. Exvangelicals, for our part, understand white evangelicalism and can…