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Black Church Leadership Gathering Excludes Women

By Hazel Cherry

…reas of advocacy while still committed to ministry. Women have been making changes in society, fearlessly and fiercely, for decades. With or without the laws and tradition on their side, women have effected social, political and spiritual change. The church has been slow to combat societal issues, and in black denominational bodies, when someone finally steps up to the plate, the male leaders resemble those of the civil rights era, expecting the w…

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…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…intellectual level of the participants, and the serious content of their exchanges. Among the elder Gandhi’s Jewish correspondents and conversation partners were philosophers, social activists, rabbis and professors. And Gandhi’s own erudition—a combination of his legal training, wide reading and religious sensibility—is reflected in his voluminous correspondence. (Gandhi’s collected writings run to one hundred volumes in the standard Indian editi…

Smashing Our Idols: A Response from Evangelical Leader David Gushee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ally inferior to heterosexuals. I wondered in that post whether Gushee had changed his mind in the year since he had written what his vision of a “welcoming” church looked like. I had complained that such a church was really just as unwelcome as a church that outright rejects gays and lesbians. A commenter on that post encouraged me to contact Gushee and ask if his opinion had changed. I contacted Gushee who was gracious enough to respond and offe…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…overnment. When that structure doesn’t work for the humans, God endorses a change. God warns against the change, but does go along. Later, when the new form doesn’t work out, God endorses another change. Again, the approval comes with a warning, but in the end God says, “If that’s what you really want…” This sets up the dynamic that humans discern the form of government they think will work best, and God works with it. As it happens, our form of g…

Osama and Orientalism: Where Islamophobes Meet Al-Qaeda

By Hussein Rashid

…on the intimate relationship the Church had with the State; the religious change was concurrent with the political change. In the Muslim world, religious authorities have been traditionally separate from political authorities. Although there have been periods of intermingling, structurally they were never one in the Sunni world. In the 18th century, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, first master of the Wahhabi tariqah (order), is arguably the precursor…

Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

By Jorge A. Aquino

…hinly-veiled homophobia and misogyny that accompanied so much previous episcopal politicking on matters of sexuality, gender, and the family. That change in tone is so constructive—but by itself it’s insufficient. This is the point that the flame war over the Francis-Davis meeting completely smoked out: When it comes to the matter of same-sex marriage and the nature of the family, Francis and Davis are on the same page. What the pope has said—and…

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…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hopeful and says he would like a church wedding if official views were to change. But it might be a problem convincing his husband, who he said is “agnosticism personified.” Australia: New TV ad says marriage equality would lead to increase in drug addiction, rape, suicide We have been reporting on Prime Minister Tony Abbots refusal to allow marriage equality legislation to move forward in spite of overwhelming public support. Last Saturday, th…

Does Hitchens Have a Prayer?

By Garret Keizer

…tude of their guardian angels and patron saints. And what if Hitchens does change his mind? He has not been afraid to change his mind about things before, pre-emptive war being one. What of those people who would view a sickbed retraction not as a triumph for Hitchens or for God but as a point scored for themselves? We were right, Hitch was wrong, and even if it turns out there is no God, at least we have that victory for consolation. Is there any…