Religion Dispatches
Though he’s embarked on an apology tour and starred in a documentary examining his mistakes and the damage they’ve caused, Joshua Harris has yet to face the hard questions about the patriarchal ideology that shaped the purity movement and his own path.
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Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.
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Whether it’s the mysteries of technology or the inscrutable malice of the people around us, Evil explores the individual’s sense of powerlessness and the possibility that even an institution as flawed and problematic as the Catholic Church might offer within it the seeds of hope.
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After a group of midshipmen at the Naval Academy sent an email about the upcoming Satanic Services that would be offered, the Academy quickly shut it down claiming that the email wasn’t properly approved.
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Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turkey, much less his phone call with Ukraine.
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If the lives of Middle East Christians mattered so much to white evangelical leaders, they’d do everything in their power, which is a lot, to pressure Trump to reverse his terrible choice. They will not, however, for three reasons.
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The recent publication of Bari Weiss’ new book on anti-Semitism and “bedbug-gate” have emphasized the troubling place the Jewish community has found itself in, embodied by Jewish historian Arthur Hertzberg’s proclamation that “The only thing more dangerous for Jews than anti-Semitism is no anti-Semitism.”
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Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative evangelicals are more moderate and more numerous.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was recently castigated by evangelicals and other conservative Christians for saying that, according to his read of the Bible, life begins at first breath. But there was a time, not long ago, when that same belief was at the center of evangelical thought. How quickly the Bible can change.
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Our indifference toward plants and animals is reaping a whirlwind of harm in the form of a climate crisis, but since plants are not sentient and don’t suffer how do we make sense of what it means to offer confession to plants?
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