Christianity v. Christ: An Excerpt From A People’s History of Christianity
Most people know only the Big-C Christianity—Christ, Constantine, Christendom, Calvin, and Christian America—but there is another one, linked to a biblical parable of a wounded man’s rescue by a stranger.
View ArticleWhy I Am Still a Christian
A friend once asked Diana Butler Bass why she was still a Christian. The answer lies in the question of spiritual memory, and of a community that exists through time.
View ArticleThe New Values Voters: Progressive Women
A study shows that progressive women activists are motivated by values, but not the “values voter” kind. How about mutual responsibility, community, and concern for others?
View ArticleTwitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine
Religious groups are discovering that Twitter can help to build a portable church, where believers can obey the timeworn injunction to “pray without ceasing”—or is it “tweet without ceasing”?
View ArticleRDPulpit: Torture Needs You
Relieved that Guantanamo Bay is closing? Don’t rest easy. Until we accept our collective responsibility for torture, and the fact that it requires not just the torturer's denial, but ours, it will...
View ArticleCreating Together: The Power of Social Capital
We complain about something like the health care debacle, but look at how much sheer force has to be arrayed against progressive causes. Maybe we've been looking at things all wrong...
View ArticlePlaces of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church
When it comes to subtle racism and able-ism in church communities, “even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power.”
View ArticleNo Space for American Islam?
The debate has focused on the new Muslim community center’s location in lower Manhattan, but the opposition (who refer to it as the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’) is driven by a deeper, reflexive antagonism....
View ArticleIndonesian Volcano Update: Yes, it’s a Religion Story…
Media coverage has focused on the science of eruption, but they missed much of the local story.
View ArticleWill Women Priests Change the Church?
Catholic women priests are an oxymoron for the Vatican. It considers them automatically excommunicated before the holy oil is dry on their hands. Other Catholics accept them as sacramental ministers...
View ArticleThe Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain
“The Grateful Dead were more than just a band. They were their own planet, populated by...
View ArticleThe Sacred and the Dead: Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture
A long time ago in a faraway land, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Deadheads. ...
View ArticleThe Second Coming of Black Jesus
In the first season of Adult Swim’s Black Jesus, the titular hero discovers that the tomatoes...
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