ReligionDispatches.org

Peter Laarman.

Newsweek actually gets religion, writes the author of the recent gay marriage issue. It’s the Christian Right culture warriors who claim that God possesses their prejudices who are mistaken.

Robert B. Tapp.

As we help US culture emerge from its anti-scientific faith moment, we need to stress a rational morality.

Louis A. Ruprecht.

The proper role of government is to punish evildoers, Pastor Rick Warren tells Sean Hannity. If the Rev’s read is to be believed, the United States is in deep trouble.

Linell Cady.

Is authentic religious commitment incompatible with critical thinking, reason, or compromise, as philosopher Simon Critchley seems to imply in a recent essay on Obama? Or is our challenge to refuse the false oppositions between total transformation and conflict, or politics and piety?

Jonathan L. Walton.

Is President Obama destined to disappoint progressives? Our columnist channels theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reminding us of the human potential for both good and evil, and offering a pragmatic approach...

Kathryn Lofton.

The president’s faith, according to John McCain, is “[the] number one issue.” Having scoured the public record, the author reports back with a startling proposal: John McCain may not believe in God.

Kate Childs Graham.

Which leads to the next question: Can we take the antiquated teachings of the Church literally while reading the Bible contextually?

Lisa Webster.

In response to attacks from Christians comedian Margaret Cho delivers a sacred and profane rant that’s actually a theological act.

Ariana Childs Graham.

Surrounded by those she had been taught to “despise,” she began to question these prejudices that had been instilled through the institutional Church and seek out the human rights model laid out in the Gospel....

Andre C. Willis.

Does Obama's coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?

Mark Gstohl.

What the presidential candidates' responses to a question about the nature of evil reveal about the state of American Christianity...

Laurie Patton.

The exploration of new worlds has traditionally been both liberating and exploitative; can we can break the cycle with Mars?

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd.

Was Obama's interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a "fruitcake" position as Dr. James Dobson called it?

Kathryn Joyce.

A growing theology of male headship and female submissiveness argues that men and women are equal under God, but have different leadership responsibilities as laid out by Scripture...

Mary Fulkerson.

"...even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power..."

Jonathan L. Walton.

The dilemma of the believing theologian...