As a child, I watched with some amusement the almost comical, fawning performances typical of Southern, evangelical churches on Mother’s Day. As a teenager, I came to realize that much of the rhetoric contained therein actually functioned to reinforce patriarchal structures that intentionally excluded women from leadership roles, and limited their options to those… »
The earliest gospel account closes with the mystery of an empty tomb. The disciples found themselves at a loss to understand how to move forward without the teacher and friend who had claimed to be the Son of God but died the brutal death of… »
I was pondering this today, and I decided to put it into a Facebook-friendly graphic. As someone who teaches World Religions, it seems fairly obvious to me that fundamentalists – Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian…doesn’t matter – have a consistent history of always being wrong about everything…. »
With his usual surgical wit, Jon Stewart chastised the “Religious Right” saying, “You’ve confused a ‘War on Religion’ with ‘Not always getting everything you want.’” He is spot on, but… »
Imagine a nation where schoolchildren gather under a state-sponsored banner imploring their nation’s god to help them grow “morally.” Then imagine one courageous young woman taking a stand against the… »
When the Board of Trustees at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia lost a long legal battle with an increasingly fundamentalist Georgia Baptist Convention, many of us held out hope… »