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Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…embarrassed to identify as a Hindu. I just wanted to be accepted as an American, because in this country, the dominant narrative has been—and continues to be—that being American implicitly (or explicitly) means being Christian. It’s likely why Barack Hussein Obama has had to repeatedly reaffirm his Christian bona fides. For Hindu kids, the dilemma of having to explain a “funny religion” can be traumatic, and the bullying that takes place—often fr…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ts, and the other dread enemies of God’s plan for a Christian America, the San Antonio Christian Film Festival, which begins next week, provides a telling window. The Festival, the culmination of the 2010 Christian Filmmakers’ Academy, which features Hollywood’s most outspoken evangelical Kirk Cameron as a “faculty” member, intends to create a “Christ-honoring replacement industry outside of Hollywood.” Replacing godless Hollywood with a Christian…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…on comes after comments he made at a working class church San Cirillo Allessandro, on the outskirts of Rome on the first Sunday of Advent. According to L’Osservatore Romano, the Pope told parishioners he had once been a bouncer, but that his work later in life teaching psychology and literature taught him how to get people back into the church. No surprise then, that Pope Francis is punching high and low at his internal and external detractors. Li…

Catholics Talk About Sex

By Kate Ott

…lues to provide comprehensive sexual health information. The University of San Francisco Health Promotion Services and Loyola University Chicago provide information about contraception and STI prevention. Georgetown University allows H*yas for Choice to provide information and condoms to students in Red Square, a “free speech zone” on campus. These institutions are in the minority. In a survey of Catholic Universities, only 12% of colleges say the…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…z’s mission field. Du Mez, both a practicing Christian and a scholar of American evangelicalism (not to mention, full disclosure, an occasional contributor to RD), has spent the past few years fielding waves of public responses to her book, which has been a breakout success (how often can academics say that?), Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. A political and cultural history of White evangelica…

Easter in the Mountains: Christianity vs. The Call of the Wild

By Peter Laarman

…t nature’s grandeur but the holiness within that grandeur, the healing and sanctifying effects of yielding fully to it, and the necessity of communicating, especially to the young, that this bright green-blue Earth is our only home. And that it’s so alive—and so much bigger than us—that a little reverence and humility wouldn’t be a bad idea. Once I laughed at how the Unitarians had written vernal awakening words to replace the original stanzas of…

Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…nd took in Romero’s flock when they streamed North. When violence enters a sanctuary, that is a violation of sacred space. The phones of the dead at Pulse continued to ring for hours as those who loved them frantically dialed and re-dialed, hoping to find them alive. Violence tore open the sanctuary throughout history, tore it open over and over again. Violence brought queers into the streets of Orlando to hold one another and weep, brought queers…

Satanic Temple Protests Pseudoscientific Therapies for Satanic Abuse and Witchcraft

By Joseph Laycock

If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you would have seen a most unusual sight: Two women bound on the sidewalk in chains as Satanists cover them in ashes and recited from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. While this sounds like a scene of “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” it was actually a street performance organized by The Satanic Temple to protest the annual conference of the International Society for the St…

The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…sment, and bishops do not like being embarrassed. Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco said it pretty directly: [Cordileone] said bishops would not be taken seriously if they did not create the communion document. “Our credibility is on the line,” he said. “The eyes of the whole country are on us right now.” There’s some incentive for the bishops to take a tough line with Biden, in other words. They’ve painted themselves into this weird corner b…

Yes We Can/Si Se Puede: Remembering and Forgetting Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1927—April 23, 1993)

By Luis Leon

…e and human dignity. He was also involved with minority civil rights—for African and Asian Americans as well as Latinos. He even traveled to Mexico to advocate for workers there. But perhaps the most commonly forgotten component of Chavez’s nonviolent struggle was for the rights of gays and lesbians. In 1987, Chavez addressed a crowd of 200,000 at a march for gay rights and for funding to combat AIDS in Washington DC. There, he claimed: “Our movem…