Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Threat of White Christian Nationalism to US Democracy: A Recent Public Discussion

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A week ago, Georgetown University's Center on Faith and Justice and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty co-sponsored a pub...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

"Where is the Sense of Decency? What Does It Profit a Great Nation to Conquer the World, Only to Lose Its Soul?" — The Legacy of John Lewis

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This interview with Congressman John Lewis -- in front of a live audience in Kentucky in October 2013 -- was one of the most memorable and...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Is It That the Democrats "Lost" White Christians, or That Obama's Elections Re-Energized GOP's "White Christian Strategy"?

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Yesterday's PRRI "Morning Buzz" email newsletter* discusses a recent article by Jack Jenkins' entitled " Democ...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The Holocaust and Christian Theologies of Sin and Forgiveness: Imperative Need for Christians to Listen to Jews

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Elizabeth Johnson, The Quest for the Living God (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) Ruth Krall's recent sounding of various ecclesial resp...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Ruth Krall, A Brief Afterword to "Recapitulation: Affinity Sexual Violence in a Religious Voice"

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Healthcare Workers in Ebola Protective Gear (i) Ruth Krall has generously prepared a brief afterword to her six-part series of essays...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Sri Lanka, the Spiral of Violence, and Global Turn to Strongmen Messianic Solutions: The Temptation of This Moment

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I grieve — so very much — the carnage we've just seen enacted in Sri Lanka, on the day many Christians consider the holiest day o...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Celebrating Mary Oliver & Asking: Do We Want to Be the Kind of People Celebrating Mary Oliver, or the Kind Celebrating Karen Pence & John Finnis?

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That's the big question, the one the world throws at you each morning, "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

More on Missionary John Allen Chau: "You Go on a Beach, You Throw a Fish at Some People, You Holler at Them" — This Is Missionizing?

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Several days ago, I posted some reflections about the story of American Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed by the ...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Boston Declaration: A Prophetic Appeal to Christians of the United States

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As followers of Jesus, the Jewish prophet for justice whose life reminds us to, "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12:31) ...

In Today's News: "If Jesus Christ Gets Down Off the Cross and Told Me Trump Is with Russia, I Would Tell Him, 'Hold on a Second. I Need to Check with the President'"

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Astead W. Herndon , "Why evangelicals are again backing a Republican despite allegations of sexual misconduct":
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

As Violence Is Discussed in Light of Brussels Atrocities, Some Food for Thought — About Violence As Our Problem, Too

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Violence is in the air these days. After the events in Brussels, it's being discussed all over again — as if it's something o...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Alan McCornick on Why Religion Is the Problem: "Imagine a World Where Cherry-Picking Does Not Take Place and You Have the Kind of World Which ISIS Is Trying to Create"

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An early Christmas gift: Alan McCornick's smart, wonderfully dense (think an outstanding slice of dark, rich fruitcake), fetchin...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Christianity, Islam, Violence: Three Thoughtful Reactions to Mr. Obama's National Prayer Breakfast Remarks

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Three thoughtful quotes from three thoughtful articles responding to the manufactured right-wing outrage after President Obama told t...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Islam, Christianity, and Barbaric Violence: Discussion of the Issues in a U.S. Catholic Forum, National Catholic Reporter

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In response to an article by Sister Maureen Fiedler in National Catholic Reporter  this morning about the bogus controversy followin...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Wil Gafney on Rape Culture, Kidnapping of Nigerian Schoolgirls, and the Bible:" We Must Teach the Bible’s Iron Age Theology Because It Permeates Our Culture and Society"

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I find Wil Gafney's approach to the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls to force the girls into rape-marriage illuminating. Gafne...