Religion Dispatches
…ewsroom.org and several other relevant domain names—latterdaysaintnewsroom.com, thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.com, and thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsnewsroom.org—have been nabbed by the church’s critics (who can’t properly be called anti-Mormon since the church itself is now officially anti-Mormon). Restoredchurchofjesuschrist.org says that it’s “under construction, but Ldsnewsroom.com was still available as of this writ…
Read More
…e know that our staff and our current speakers are sharing a plethora of recommendations of absolutely awesome potential contributors…We have, indeed, committed sins of omission against our sisters, brothers, and nonbinary siblings of color. We ask for your forgiveness as we seek to do better. However, the apology was hedged with them also stating they had originally reached out to several people of color to be speakers but their schedules didn’t…
Read More
…m to be conflating the award’s revocation with censorship. https://twitter.com/DaleHurd/status/845248456092463104 https://twitter.com/David_Fairchild/status/844961424224899072 https://twitter.com/absonjourney/status/844603619118907392 William Stell, a recent PTS alum who is now a PCUSA pastor in New Jersey and identifies as gay, also agrees that many are making a false equivalency between refusing to honor someone and silencing them. “[The revocat…
Read More
…ng. https://twitter.com/GraceC_9/status/839954624127840257 https://twitter.com/sofiepearl61/status/839835075785199616 https://twitter.com/PoshPlunder/status/829417751328542720 Though the all-caps invectives provide a healthy dose of schadenfreude, there seems to be a doubling down of sorts happening offline. In a widely circulated story last month, Rev. Joel Tooley of Florida described his uneasiness at a local Trump rally he attended with his 11-…
Read More
…als”… but the evangelical brand is likely to take a sizable hit just the same. And it didn’t escape the notice of Christians of color—particularly women—who didn’t hold back: https://twitter.com/YNPierce/status/796209685976195073 https://twitter.com/fifthpastor/status/796207613247627268 https://twitter.com/BrandiNico/status/796239825951035392 …
Read More
…ative to the rest of the country, for every search I looked at, retirement communities search more about hell,” he writes. Each month, on average, 422 people in the US ask Google “Why did God make me ugly?” and 103 ask “Why did God make me black?” The most common God-related question, asked over 25,000 times per month in the US, is “Who created God?,” followed by that old Job-ian classic, “Why does God allow suffering?” But we should be careful he…
Read More…how American Islam is. Islam is as American as basketball. pic.twitter.com/O6IcSkxvy1 — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as dancing with dad at your wedding. pic.twitter.com/HZL7fRzWFC — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015 Islam is as American as pride and ambition. pic.twitter.com/ghycpAaTXo — peter manseau (@petermanseau) February 11, 2015…
Read More
…xual activity or even solo exploration of one’s sexuality is certainly not common to all Christians. When asked to comment on Mohler and Keller’s claims, for example, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister, said, “It’s kind of stunning to hear this missionary talk in the mouths of modern Christian men. Really? Sex inside marriage only? Otherwise it’s dehumanizing? I’m sorry to state the obvious, but we humans are at the top of…
Read More
…respectability politics in favor of direct protest, hoping to afflict the comfortable and rattle the complicit. He has also increasingly embraced social media as a tool for changing perspectives, using the #JusticeForJesus hashtag to tweet modern retellings of the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rev. McBride, center Ferguson has taken a fraught place in the American imagination. The small neigh…
Read More
…em was made inexorably worse when, five-hundred years ago, life began to become so “complicated” that almost no good deed fails to have some negative implications. As Michael, one of the main critics of heaven says: “These days, just buying a tomato at a grocery store means that you are unwittingly supporting toxic pesticides, exploiting labor, contributing to global warming. Humans think that they are making one choice, but they are actually maki…
Read More