
“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage
Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.
Read MoreThree years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.
Read MoreOn Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though…
Read MoreFor LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality…
Read MoreOn its surface, the first religious liberty case heard by the now-fully-seated Supreme Court seems to…
Read More“First of all, I’d like to say thank you. Secondly, I’d like to say I’m sorry. I’d like to thank you because of your support and affirmation. And I’d like to say I’m sorry because of the ways that Christianity is far too often used as a tool of exclusion rather than inclusion. I’d also like to say that there are many other pastors and people of faith who share views such as my own. My speech just happened to go viral on the internet, but I have a ton of colleagues doing similar things all across the U.S. on a regular basis. We may not receive as much publicity as the highly-funded voices on the religious right, but I am hardly a lone voice.”
Read MoreMany of these weather events actually are a kind of “punishment”—not in the conservative-theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sown for two hundred years.
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Read MoreMissouri Republicans push a meaningless Constitutional amendment in an effort to increase religious right voter turnout.
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