Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted May 5, 2014. Some of the specifics may have changed but the underlying issues have remained, perhaps even worsened. When I was in high school I heard a story about a girl who got drunk at a party after a football game and...
Religion UnpluggedShe walked for days through jungle mountain paths to escape the Myanmar military's campaign of terror. The medical care she needs is out of reach. What keeps her and the more than 600 people around her alive is a fragile web of church donations,...
PaleoJudaicia Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on March 26, 2015 Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the news again, but not for reasons you would expect. She, along with Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, penned a feminist essay about the Exodus title...
Canopy ForumFrederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, Washington, DC by G. Edward Johnson (CC BY 4.0). At a Nashville rally in 2015, Donald Trump declared that mass shootings like one that had recently occurred at an Oregon community college would never happen if...
Political TheologyHope can persist even when things seem impossible. This affinity with the miraculous, rupturing the force of prevailing law, gives hope its extra-rational power. Source
PaleoJudaicia Religion UnpluggedThe text tells the story, or “katha,” of the ritual vow, or “vrata,” that women devotees perform to earn the favor of Swasthani, a local Nepali Hindu goddess.
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) A couple of months ago, the Heritage Foundation released a report entitled, “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years.” You can probably guess the contents of said report from just the title, but to...
Feminism and ReligionModerator’s Note: This post has been posted in cooperation with the NCRI women’s committee. NCRI stands for the National Council of Resistance of Iran. You can learn more information as well as see this original article by clicking by link below. A...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) March 31 marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients’ rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an irreversible coma. Quinlan’s case established...
Religion MattersMost approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust,...
Canopy ForumP.S. Krøyer’s painting of A meeting in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (PD-Art). This article is part of our Book Review Roundtable on Andrea Pin’s book, Dignity in Judgement: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective...
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The Commons by APRIL OnlineAdd excerpt here. The post Research as Ceremony: Methodological Meditations of a Scholar-Priestess of Northern Haitian Vodou appeared first on April Online.
Political TheologyThe problem of how to resolve the tension between private property and the universal destination of goods, perhaps, obscures a deeper problem in CST. I contend that Catholic social teaching tends not to perceive its own entanglements in modernity...
Contending ModernitiesThe weaponization of religious narratives is a powerful force in shaping perceptions and stimulating political solidarities. But so is a brief humanizing encounter as a bridge to empathy. The post “Remember What Amalek Did to You”: The...
Religion UnpluggedWhen Americans call President George Washington the “Father of His Country” it’s an honorary title based on politics and history. When modern citizens of the Republic of Georgia refer to Patriarch Ilia II as the “Godfather of Our Land” they are...
ReligionProfIn her absolutely wonderful book Nerd Faith: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for the Occasionally Uncool, “The Nerdy Priest” offers a devotional for Christian nerds of every variety. The volume isn’t just for fans of science fiction and/or...
The Commons by APRIL OnlineAdd excerpt here. The post Syria’s New Oligarchic Islamist Minority appeared first on April Online.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraDanny McBride, Sterlin Harjo, and Mike Judge offer clearer views of American Christianity than any pundit—because they know their own backyards The post Home Movies for Holy Week first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsDanny McBride, Sterlin Harjo, and Mike Judge offer clearer views of American Christianity than any pundit—because they know their own backyards The post Home Movies for Holy Week first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion UnpluggedSecretary of War Pete Hegseth announced two historic changes to the military’s chaplaincy corps this week after previewing those updates this past December. The first was the consolidation of the faith codes associated with chaplaincy and the...
The ConversationAn anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the contemporary US.
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Good Faith MediaThough Christians often portray adoption as a picture of the gospel, the roots of modern adoption are far from biblical. The post Maternal Separation Ain’t Cute: The Internet’s Obsession with Punch the Monkey and the Church’s Harm of Adoptees...
Good Faith MediaDisability is not a metaphor for what is broken, but a lived reality that belongs in all aspects of the church’s life. The post Blindness is Not Brokenness: Practicing Inclusive Worship appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) The Supreme Court recently announced a major decision in what seems like a quintessential religious freedom case: A Christian preacher charged with violating a city ordinance for sharing his faith in a public park. But outrageous as...
Feminism and ReligionI played Dolores Huerta in an adaptation of Antigone Too: Rights of Love and Defiance, at the feminist theater in Minneapolis, At the Foot of the Mountain, in 1983. When the theater closed in 1991, it was the longest continuously operating women’s...
Religion UnpluggedThe affected residents occupy a plot in Kyadondo, West Buganda, under a 49-year lease granted on Sept. 1, 1972, which expired on Aug. 31, 2021. Following the lease’s expiration, the Kampala Archdiocese Land Board formally told occupants to...
Good Faith MediaUnited Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities will confer Doctors of Humane Letters (honoris causa) upon sisters Jackie Baugh Moore and Julie Strathe Baugh during its 64th Commencement Exercises on April 26, 2026. The post United Seminary to Honor...
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The Immanent FrameI decided to write my third book, God Bless the Pill, about the mid-twentieth-century history of birth control in 2011. […] The post Discovering a Not-So Feminist History appeared first on The Immanent Frame.
Religion UnpluggedA new report from the Pew Research Center found that religious radio stations remain ubiquitous — with 98% of U.S. adults living within the local coverage area of at least one of them. The report found that an “overwhelming majority” of those...
Ancient Jew ReviewWe may, in fact, be approaching a moment when historical literacy—much like philology—ought to be regarded as a basic expectation of rigorous scholarship on the Talmud. If so, the question before us is not only what the Talmud is, but also what...
Contending ModernitiesKharg still holds histories waiting to be uncovered—spectral traces that have shaped the island through mourning and devotion, where land and sea were not merely resources but sites of sacred belonging. The post Kharg, the Orphan Pearl: War,...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraAs to pain: author Darcey Steinke feels yours The post Pain Is God first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsAs to pain: author Darcey Steinke feels yours The post Pain Is God first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Political TheologyBensaïd critiques political theology while defending Derridean sovereignty—itself theological—and the distance between the two theologies is short. Source
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Don Mattingly, a pioneering Southern Baptist leader, created Centrifuge youth camps to “spin” teens toward meaningful futures in faith, service and careers. Launched in 1979, the program has reached millions. Remembered as both a...
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Good Faith MediaFor Christ’s sake, when he comes for us, may he not find us on middle ground. The post What Will It Take To Radicalize You? appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Feminism and ReligionTwo of the most well-known aspects of mythical Ariadne are the way she betrays and is betrayed. Hers is the ultimate ancient Greek karma story. She casts off the burden of her father’s narcissism, her mother’s bewitchment, her half-brother’s...
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2026.03.04 | Vladimir Olivero. 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 110. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025. pp. viii + 359. ISBN: 9781628377606. Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University. While 1 Enoch is among the scriptures of...
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA mother, a daughter, and sixteen years of a political art project The post A Tribute to Workers, Written in Chalk first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA mother, a daughter, and sixteen years of a political art project The post A Tribute to Workers, Written in Chalk first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
