Time to Say Goodbye to the Culture Wars and Hello to the New Sexual Revolution
Opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage share the belief that not all relationships are moral or faithful, and that part of the church’s mission is to encourage and bless faithful expressions of...
View ArticleWinner Take All?—A Political and Religious Assessment of the Culture War...
By Andrew Marin Historians note that on 28 June, 1969 the modern era of the battle over gay rights unofficially began. It was in the early hours of that morning in Greenwich Village in New York City at...
View ArticleA Time To Be Counted Against Injustice
The book of Ecclesiastes says that there is a season and a time for everything under heaven. There is, for example, a time to be born, and to die; a time to seek, and to lose; a time to keep silence,...
View ArticleThe Politics of a General Assembly, Part 4: Marriage Equality (Delayed)
The conservatives did what they had to do to win. They ran out the clock, wore people down, kept their troops in line, and ultimately prevailed thereby. Not letting the Assembly debate the issue of the...
View ArticleOld-Fashioned
I’m old-fashioned. I grew up in a culture, both religious and family, that regarded marriage as forever. When my mother and father became engaged in 1949, her grandmother reminded everyone that there...
View ArticleMy Thomist Epiphany at a Same-Sex Wedding
Maybe it’s strange to think about political theology at a wedding ceremony. But political theology was on my mind a few years ago, when I attended the wedding of a same-sex couple in my extended...
View ArticleMarriage Matters — Marie Alford-Harkey
People say that our wedding was one of the most moving events they’ve ever attended. Now of course, people are supposed to say that about their friends’ weddings. But, at the risk of bragging, I’m...
View ArticleOut in Public
On Monday, more than 400 Episcopalians spent a few hours in cold and snowy Washington, DC, praying a modern-day stations of the cross as a public witness against gun violence. More than 20 bishops were...
View ArticleKiss Cam
I was a Kiss Cam virgin when we went to see the Orioles at Camden Yards a couple of years ago. The minor league ball field near my house in Maine didn’t feature a big video screen, so I was surprised...
View ArticleThe Church after DOMA–Thomas J. Bushlack
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions that will have a great impact upon the legal status of same-sex couples in the United States. In United States vs. Windsor, a 5-4 ruling...
View ArticleEqual Recognition
We’ve said it over and over this past week. “Hello, Federally Recognized Wife!” It’s part of our celebration of and wonder at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Windsor v. United States. Two women...
View ArticleEntirely Spiritual And Deeply Political
A few weeks ago, I was part of a conversation among some LGBTQ Christian activists in which my friend Vivian Taylor said, “I view this work as entirely spiritual and also as deeply political.” For many...
View ArticleWhat Now? Notes on Catholic Social Teaching, Public Policy, and the Midterm...
Last week’s midterms were good for Team Red. The GOP took back the Senate to gain control of both houses of Congress, extended the number of governorships they hold to 31 (with Alaska still too close...
View ArticleQUICK TAKES – Do the New State “Religious Freedom” Laws Ensure Such Freedoms,...
In this week’s edition of QUICK TAKES on current and newsworthy issues involving religion and theology by POLITICAL THEOLOGY TODAY, we look at the very recent national controversy over legislation...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage: Game Over? (Ludger Viefhues-Bailey)
American Evangelicals and their rumblings on marriage equality will stay with us. This resilience is not simply because of the impact of their networks and numbers but because their resistance reflects...
View ArticleSCOTUS Decision on Marriage Equality Does Not Address The Underlying Issue of...
This past weekend my Facebook and Twitter feeds were awash with rainbow colors and expressions of patriotic love for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The Court’s decision in Obergefell...
View ArticleQUICK TAKES – The Legality and Larger Meaning of Kentucky Clerk’s Refusal To...
The refusal of Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses to LGBT couples on grounds of religious conscience has set off a storm of national controversy in recent days and has resulted...
View ArticleOut in Public
On Monday, more than 400 Episcopalians spent a few hours in cold and snowy Washington, DC, praying a modern-day stations of the cross as a public witness against gun violence. More than 20 bishops were...
View ArticleKiss Cam
I was a Kiss Cam virgin when we went to see the Orioles at Camden Yards a couple of years ago. The minor league ball field near my house in Maine didn’t feature a big video screen, so I was surprised...
View ArticleThe Church after DOMA–Thomas J. Bushlack
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions that will have a great impact upon the legal status of same-sex couples in the United States. In United States vs. Windsor, a 5-4 ruling...
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