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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e and rejection,’ Metropolitan Chrysostomos said. ‘We shouldn’t forget the way Christ responded to the sinful woman, according to the Gospels, which became his word. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” ‘That canon should be our guiding principle for the way in which we should handle every person and fellow human, regardless of their otherness or differences. The church doesn’t reject people.’ …In a follow up arti…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…ot all evangelicals admire his speaking style or cultural cues in the same way. “I’m not impressed” with Cruz, said Mattson, adding that he speaks in a way that is “decidedly phony to me.” In contrast, Walker speaks the right language, “but not in a polarizing way,” said Mattson. “He doesn’t sound pandering like a Huckabee and doesn’t come across as strident and divisive like Santorum. He’s winsome.” Still, though, Walker does play a good-versus-e…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…his nexus to the right. Instead, we should recognize that there is a right way and wrong way to do it, insist that it be done the right way, and get to work. Of course many liberals already do. And there lies the good news. The United States has a rich heritage of liberal (and even radical) political views being promoted by religious people and congregations. Millions of Americans seek sanctity in their lives, humble themselves before a higher pow…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…d and disingenuous to tell a story that wasn’t mine. I hope I told it in a way that was invitational though, that speaks in a way that makes room for others, with gaps and spaces that are meant to be filled. I realized that what was left out was actually important because the work is ultimately an invitation for all of us to ask how people of faith can confess God’s presence in new ways. By trying to re-center the body in our theological imagining…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…eptember. What makes the snub of Grassley so ironic is that he is, in many ways, a creature of the Religious Right. Iowa was the proving ground for the nascent Religious Right back in 1978 when pro-life activists conducted a stealth campaign against incumbent Senator Dick Clark, who political pundits almost universally regarded as a shoo-in for reelection. During the final weekend of that campaign, pro-life activists—most of them were Roman Cathol…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…ilm Angels In America (2003), in which a fabulous drag queen, backed by a swaying, enrobed, and equally fabulous black gospel choir, memorializes a gay man who has died of AIDS with a rousing performance of Zella Price Jackson’s exuberant “I’m His Child.” Here, the effect of the black gospel choral style is to implicitly link the gay-male social struggle against homophobia with the soul in bondage striving after the salvation of freedom in the Civ…

RD10Q: How the Democrats lost the Catholic vote

By Michael Sean Winters

…impervious to advice and discussion. From the outside, it might look that way, the same way a gothic church can look forbidding from the outside and is only really luminous when you get inside and see the stained glass windows. I have found the church, including the hierarchy, to be very receptive to my ideas, very open to discussion, very welcoming and encouraging, even when my thoughts stray from orthodoxy. Did you have a specific audience in m…

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

By Jay Michaelson

…ly work. Since the angels possess a written copy of God’s plan, there’s no way to know ex ante whether Norris’ disobedience is All Part Of The (Meta-)Plan or just plain old disobedience. At one crucial moment in the film, Norris looks into his beloved’s eyes and says “this just can’t be wrong.” Certainly, this is an experience I can relate to, as can anyone who’s fallen in love with someone of the “wrong” gender, religion, or ethnic background. It…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ad Sea without raising a little finger against them… There are hundreds of ways of reasoning with the Arabs, if they will only discard the help of the British bayonet […] I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of nonviolence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an unwarrantable encroachment upon their country. Later in December 1938, a month after Gandhi published his views on the Jews in Germany and the questio…