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Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…o bars. Instead, people feel like they have to look good all day, all the time. Even for a 7 a.m. class? Yes. Walk around BYU campus and you’ll see a lot of very shiny, pretty, well-dressed, well put-together college students. It’s required, because you’re trying to attract a mate. As women age, become mothers, and go through their child-bearing years, there’s still that pressure of, I’ve had babies, but I want to look good. Here I am with my th…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y away and not continue the conversation because I would get angry. So sometimes walking away is graceful? Yeah, I think so. Sometimes telling people how you feel is graceful, too. You have to go situation by situation. In your book you talk about how your mom, Tammy Faye, reacted to the news that a friend of yours was gay. You were devastated, but her response was basically, “What’s the problem?” I found that surprising. That was probably back in…

RDBook: Darwin and Slavery

By Arri Eisen

…; and even seeds soaked in salt water for days. (Darwin’s house was, for a time, a virtual botanical garden of seeds from all over the world, soaked and then grown in soil to demonstrate that plant seeds could easily move in the oceans over very long distances to take root again. Scientists of the time maintained that species couldn’t move from place to place via seawater, but none had ever bothered to do the experiment and test the idea.) Darwin…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…available to Hollywood and the tastes of American culture at this point in time, Outsourced is revolutionary for American television. This is the first show I can think of with a regular character wearing hijab. The show deals with religions that are often misunderstood, or feared. What kind of effect do you anticipate the show can have? For the first time, Americans can experience a contextualized India in all its diversity. There are Hindus, Sik…

“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time and I hope that my regret for the long journey is clearly communicated in the book. I am sorry it took me so long to put it all together. It’s like being in a movie where someone is trying to crack a safe and there’s six numbers and you have to get all six numbers right for the safe to open. I think that’s what’s happened for me. Finally, all six numbers came up and I was able to open the safe and I could see this in a new way. Tha…

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

…he consequences. Evangelicalism has been a political rally for a very long time. And only certain people are welcome to the party. The New York Times piece argued that what is new is that evangelicals have now taken their worship-politics to the streets where “secular” people are. But that’s also not new. In the 1970s, even before Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, Phyllis Schlafly led evangelical women in Bible-quoting, prayer and hymn-singing anti-…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…s with many movements for change, one motivation for action was anger. Sometimes this led to minor acts of violence which were then overblown by those opposed to looking at the fundamental problem with how policing is conducted towards communities of color. The reaction of many in the conflict-resolution field was to propose some form of mediated police/community dialogues. [Generally speaking] we not only support the use of dialogues—both of us h…

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…ry a counter-imperial valence? Another way to ask this: Can you envision a time when more than a relatively small number of Christians will actively challenge and oppose the imperial project? Or is not so much a matter of numbers as it is of intensity? At this point we have to take with equal seriousness both human evolution and the core of the biblical tradition—or either one separately, as I take the same message away from each. For Jesus and Pa…

The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…d some of the conservatives certainly believed in it. But right around the time of World War I, the tears that already existed in the fabric—at least in the north—began to open as the war created a climate of anxiety and heightened national consciousness. At that point, the fundamentalist groups battled the liberals in their denominations over religious doctrines. At the same time, they rejected the Social Gospel and continued to believe that soci…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…ch stated that, while he agrees with Dobbs, the case was decided at “a bad time” because “we’ve been polarized” (note the passive voice). Three separate times, he describes anti-abortion trigger laws—abortion bans designed to automatically take effect at the overturn of Roe—as merely “performative,” as though the people who passed them didn’t really mean what they were doing. (They did.) A number of others have expressed a similar view, like the p…