Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”
The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake,…
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“Progressive” Religion or Just Religion?
Last week HuffPo Religion‘s executive editor Paul Raushenbush wrote about a “stunning resurgence” of progressive Christianity….
Read MoreMarriage is Not a Sacrament for Protestants and Why that Matters to LGBT Christians
Recently, well meaning Episcopal clergy and lay leaders have been urging the church to “extend the sacrament…
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Jesus’ Language More Complicated Than Experts Claim
“So Israel’s Prime Minister was arguing with the Pope over what language Jesus spoke” sounds…
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The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception
Years later, when the remembrance of so many other things had faded, the memory still…
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My Kind of Atheist
Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty…
Read MoreWhy I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays
Here in my beloved South, the main characters in our political drama are still men,…
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Bible College Pres Arrested for Forced Labor: Hypocrite or Extremist?
A belief or action is “extreme” not because of its putative disconnection from the mainstream; rather, it is “extreme” because of the way it pushes or takes the logic of a “mainstream” belief.
Read MoreThe Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films
Those who run the recently-opened 9/11 Memorial Museum refuse to consider changes to a controversial film that some say could incite hatred. They might take a page from the Holocaust Museum’s controversy nearly two decades ago.
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Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again
An essay ignored by the Vatican since the 70s, translated into english for the first time, shows that the Catholic Church can ordain women.
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