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Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

…be good white Christians. Yet, we also depend on various institutions to whitewash this reality, to conceal the truth from us—even institutions like Congress. What the events on the Capitol confirmed to me, then, was what so many of us already knew: that white people in the US have long been willing to have blood on their hands, to shed blood, if it means advancing their privilege, comfort, and security. In the wake of Jan 6, we now also have mor…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…-acclaimed horror movie Get Out, in which a black photographer accompanies his white girlfriend to her family’s estate. As the landscape gave way to highways flanked by thickets of conifers and low-slung warehouses, Jeff reassured George that his brown body would be safe at this white party. Of course, as a tall, striking, Egyptian-American man in a room of about eighty white, rural Christians, “I stuck out like a sore thumb,” George recalled. But…

GLBT Activists and the Black Church: Can We Talk?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ck Christians come across as sexually conservative in theory, even though this may not necessarily be the case in practice. On the other hand, there are identifiable historical realities that inform African Americans seeming embrace of rigid sexual mores in public space. Besides being a reflection of the dominant patriarchal landscape of American society—remember, African Americans, too, sing America!—conservative gender politics is a social respo…

Catholics for Equality Decries USCCB Election as Yielding to “Increasingly Uncharitable Demands of the Pope”

By Sarah Posner

…the common good as both Americans and as Catholics. We are concerned that this election will result in a shift from the pastoral nature of American Catholicism to efforts to politicize in America the will of Rome. Expanding on the criticism of Equality Blessed of Dolan, Catholics for Equality pointed at the election of Kurtz: Concern is amplified by the election of Archbishop Kurtz as the new USCCB Vice President. Archbishop Kurtz, as head the Ad…

Expelled Ugandan Bishop Ministers to LGBT

By Richard A. Lindsay

…lthough I think I am straight, who knows? Maybe I am not as straight as I think.” His shoulder swiveled, slightly vampy with this last line, and the audience laughed. Retired Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, 78, was playing to a sympathetic crowd at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center on Tuesday night, May 25. The delight of the audience and the esteem in which they held him is not the typical reaction Se…

Not An Honor Killing

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…after two divorces, she suffered a history of abuse during her marriage to him, and his first wife’s cousin has spoken out about the domestic abuse that she faced while married to him. She had filed for divorce from him a week before her murder, yet she still worked in the same television station he did (they co-founded the network). As many domestic violence statistics show, women in abusive relationships are most in danger when they attempt to l…

Christmas Candy Jesus, Black Magi, Jewish Xmas

By Michael J. Altman

…clude Jesus in their Christmas festivities. One small group of Christians think this enough to warrant executing Santa. Jolly ole St. Nicholas’ home town was in Turkey and the town of Demre is cashing in on their favorite son. The story of the nativity through social networks. Jamaicans are using the first patois version of the Gospel of Luke in this year’s Christmas celebrations. Under continued threat from al-Qaeda, Iraqi Christians leaders have…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…led a quiet grassroots rejection of the new LDS Church-announced policies which ban the children of LGBT couples from being named as church members and blessed in religious ceremonies as infants, and prevents them from being baptized until the’re 18. The clear theological contradiction between the policy and Jesus Christ’s unequivocal and unconditional welcome to children in the New Testament has left even conservative and moderate Church members…

Seventh-Day Smackdown!

By Daniel Schultz

…criticism “offered in a spirit of reconciliation and dialogue.” It’s healthier and more efficient sometimes to spell out simply and directly what it is that you think people have done wrong, and why. That way it can be discussed openly and honestly and without a lot of passive-aggressive nonsense. Extra points for marshaling scriptural evidence, while we’re at it. Yes, there are many ways to read the Bible, but some are better supported than othe…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…n an interview with RD. “The point is, what is the quality of the relationship?” While recent surveys show that younger Americans, including those from faith communities, are increasingly in sync with this view (especially on marriage rights for same-sex couples, which the majority support), sexuality issues nonetheless remain extremely explosive. Religious right pastors frequently speak with the loudest voices, while more progressive clergy avoid…