https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to jesus en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/29/stop-trying-save-jesus-fandamentalism-reinforces-problem-christian-supremacism If you’ve spent much time around fandoms, online or off, you’ve surely heard something like, “Celebrity X (or TV show, or book series, etc.) is great, but my God , their fans are the worst .” Of course, sometimes the… Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:08:00 EST Chrissy Stroop 5995e403-eaee-4773-964e-aeef76ebb106 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/31/why-must-jesus-contain-gluten The genius of the eucharist, in strictly human terms, is in its simplicity: bread and wine, the everyday foods of Mediterranean antiquity, enter the ritual process to become body and blood. The elements are plain and common, so humble as… Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:30:12 EDT Benjamin Dueholm f5a4e551-0a24-4dc1-8e21-d9fb6a80f2c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/15/how-talk-trump-evangelical-christmas Many Americans remain discouraged or angry about the presidential election. Those gathering around the tree this holiday season with evangelical family may feel particularly bewildered. Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:05:27 EST Stephen Mucher 030b6e6c-1c2e-4c81-b073-deba18205093 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/26/king-jesus-what-religious-right-sees-trump Trump is not a Christian warrior; he is, however, a warrior for Christ. Wed, 26 Oct 2016 04:02:03 EDT Roger Friedland a6c62afd-b771-4033-b9c9-c22fdd0fd840 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/24/forget-nasty-trumps-got-disgusting-problem Donald Trump lives in a permanent state of disgust towards women. Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:17:16 EDT Karen E. Park 56475f8c-846c-4141-a3ad-022c834dd8ab https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/07/jesus-atheists-and-agnostics-and-nones-and-everyone-else “There is absolutely nothing to stop us ‘seculars’ from following Jesus.” Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:14:37 EDT Tom Krattenmaker 8ba6e63a-599b-4d8e-9ba4-ffa7bae8f8eb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/27/racist-jesus-lawsuit-against-met-already-success In December a lawsuit was filed against the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City claiming that the artwork of Jesus hanging on the museum’s walls is “racist propaganda” because the pieces depict Jesus as white. Noting that the… Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:27:44 EST Andre E. Johnson 0a69e429-5203-4249-9998-7fbee0a5189d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/23/christian-voter-guide-jesus-wrong-issues-and-wrong-america In light of this Christian Post article on the “Christian Voting Guide” put out by Rev. Steven Andrew, I was curious to see how Jesus himself would stack up against other candidates. The short answer is “not very well.” I’ve… Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:00:49 EDT Daniel Schultz d120d650-20e7-4af3-bd02-9ff8e7da49a5 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/20/profanity-laden-sermon-white-people-who-want-talk-about-race Encountering the grief of racism in a non-David-Brooks-ian way. Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:00:05 EDT Daniel Schultz 89af4ef3-450b-4886-af34-a548671dbb58 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/28/critiques-questions-and-sauve-qui-peut-looking-toward-future-american-christianities The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not a simple matter of secularization or non-affiliation. My own working assumption is that many of those who will no longer answer “Christian” in answer to… Thu, 28 May 2015 06:48:37 EDT Peter Laarman 19899459-3c27-4809-bb3c-a670a90d3b1f https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/16/blasphemy-isis-7-point-pro-guide-islamism Islam was meant to be read as a whole, and not in bits and pieces, as ISIS and al-Qaeda do. (Their Islam is not just outrageous, it is also embarrassing.) Mon, 16 Mar 2015 04:47:07 EDT Haroon Moghul 6f783735-c386-47ec-9545-bfc3ba0575ff https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/23/jesus-backs-gender-equality-oscars In her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for women, specifically calling for wage equality… …which, as many noted, had Meryl Streep and J-Lo (among many others) shouting vehement amens… …yet one Twitter user… Mon, 23 Feb 2015 02:41:57 EST Evan Derkacz 31e118bc-530a-4bca-8fdd-03326f4c70f2 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/14/ordinary-jesus-excerpt-christ-actually-son-god-secular-age The divinity of Jesus is problematic. Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:54:09 EST James Carroll 59e921ec-15f2-4d89-8190-0bdbb3acd283 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/12/state-religious-actor-deeming-teens-crotch-rubbing-jesus-statue-illegal This week, controversies emerged involving both a statue of Satan and a statue of Jesus, a “tale of two statues” that raises interesting questions about how objects come to be regarded as sacred, and the role of the government in… Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:51:59 EDT Joseph Laycock daaa5a7d-db88-441a-aae2-9742a0602eec https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/08/lgbt-friendly-church-not-christian-enough It’s easier to argue about Jesus and whether he was fully human, fully divine, both or some mixture thereof, instead of doing the dirty work of feeding the poor, etc. Mon, 08 Sep 2014 03:34:38 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge ca592e69-4b87-465b-8830-9b4c339e21d8 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/03/my-kind-atheist Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace by Frank Schaeffer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave… Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:35:52 EDT Peter Laarman 0da6429b-4875-448d-83bf-cea5b95a22ff https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/22/muslim-gospel-revealing-christian-truth-excites-da-vinci-code-set In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.” Associated with the apostle Barnabas, the text essentially retold the life… Thu, 22 May 2014 05:07:20 EDT Annette Yoshiko Reed 999ca0fc-7aed-497d-a4fa-29df04df49a9 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/12/startling-number-believe-you-can-be-jewish-jesus-follower-why-its-not-crazy-it-sounds A full third of Jewish Americans think that followers of Jesus Christ can also be Jews, though theologically speaking, Jesus isn’t messiah material for religious Jews. So what gives? Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:01:14 EST Michael Schulson 8ea1148c-5271-4518-858d-f557a47cc75f https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/01/does-religion-condemn-homosexuality Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true across cultures and history. Grand statements about what “all religions” say or believe about anything—especially about such a complex phenomenon as human desire and sexuality—are… Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:02:51 EDT Michael Bronski d576c749-c751-4239-b07f-380dd776d016 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/19/reza-aslans-viral-fox-news-interview-reveals-more-just-christian-privilege When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage. Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:48:01 EDT Jeffrey Scholes 1cf78bd0-74f9-445e-80e0-26366a0d063d https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/08/reza-aslans-missed-opportunity With apologies to Reza Aslan, he is not an unbiased scholar of the historical Jesus, or of the history of Islam, or of any other phenomenon in the study of religion. Nor is any Christian or Jewish scholar, or any liberal or conservative scholar. I just wish he had said so. Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:59:30 EDT Micha'el Rosenberg b83304a1-f6be-42ee-adeb-50c52d1e2d24 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/06/maybe-millennials-are-just-realizing-god-dead A viral CNN post by Rachel Held Evans argues that millennials are fed up with the church’s reactionary politics and just want Jesus, while Brett McCracken counters in the Washington Post that were they to listen to their elders they’d break out of their twitter-obsessed world and find meaning. But what if it’s not authentic faith they’re looking for at all? Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:45:10 EDT Hollis Phelps c955d15f-3267-4fce-81cc-236b84dff4d8 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/29/update-fox-news-tries-gotcha-game-reza-aslan In which the author of a new Jesus bio repeatedly addresses his Muslim background. Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:40:24 EDT The Editors 9cb6ead8-fe67-4d58-bdba-96018a99434b https://religiondispatches.org/2013/03/05/history-channels-bible-keeps-conservatives-mostly-happy-and-jesus-white Welcome to the greatest story never sold. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:39:24 EST Paul Harvey aa88d31f-1b24-4feb-b478-58ce3054b021 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/02/18/afa-shocked-snls-djesus-uncrossed-video Guys, the video mocks Tarantino, not… forget it. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:00:03 EST Evan Derkacz 99360d77-06f0-444c-95ea-ff5a3a3b35c3