The Pew Forum has the results of who voted for whom along religious lines, based on exit polls. No surprises: evangelicals and weekly church-goers voted for Romney, everyone else (Catholics, Black Protestants, mainliners, Jews, and the unaffiliated) voted for Obama. Heres’s what it looks like: (more…) Read more
I’ll be speaking tonight in Seattle. More info here. C’mon out and argue with me about the atonement. Next weekend I’ll be in Dallas at the National Youth Workers Convention. Drop me a line if you want to get together. Read more
Came last night: Background here. Read more
The good people at WhoopTee.com have designed a t-shirt for Theoblogy readers, and I’ve got five to give away. Write a limerick about last night’s election in the comment section below. I’ll choose five winners on Monday. You could win this!!! (more…) Read more
While I reject all of the puffed-up rhetoric that this-is-the-most-important-election-in-our-lifetime, it was a momentous night. Not because we elected a person of color, but because we seem to have risen about the politics of race and elected the person we think can best lead us. Here’s Andrew Sullivan: One felt something tectonic shift tonight. America crossed the Rubicon of every citizen’s access to healthcare, and re-elected a black president in a truly tough economic climate. The shift toward gay equality is now... Read more
That’s the message of British theologian, Theo Hobson: To put it bluntly, [Rowan Williams] has helped me to see that Christianity is not essentially a big idea that we must try to spread, by arguing for its truth, but a cultural tradition, centred on the church’s ritual. In other words, he has helped me to see the intellectual strength of Anglo-Catholic tradition. It took me a while to come round to this view. When I started thinking about religion, in... Read more
I think today should be a national holiday. Let’s ditch Columbus Day and make today a day without work, a day to celebrate our freedom to vote. In that spirit, I want to make a space here for the 35,000 of you who read this blog every month to post thoughts, links, questions, or simply to state, “I voted.” So, tell us, what did you experience as you voted? Did you change your mind about anything at the last... Read more
Martin Marty takes aim at hand-wringers who worry that that lack of church attendance and affiliation are dropping. Even if it’s below 50% nowadays, it was a lot lower in Colonial America: So how were things in the good old days? A consensus questioned by a few serious scholars—Patricia Bonomi among them—is that fewer than 20 percent of the colonial citizens were active in churches. Change came after 1776, so that, in one common estimate, church participation jumped from 17... Read more
Fellow Patheos blogger Ellen Painter Dollar got some huge traffic last month when her post, “Why I Am a Christian Democrat” went viral. I appreciate Ellen’s apologia for being both a Christian and a registered Democrat. Like her, it’s neither scandalous nor revolutionary for a Christian from my background to vote for Democrats. Both the church of my youth and my current faith community are full of folks who vote both ways — though I suspect that my current co-parishioners... Read more
I’d be interested in you reading post: The very tradition of the limerick comes freighted with bawdy sexual references, most often at the expense of women’s sexual agency and subjectivity. Thus, compromising the effort from the outset. Read the rest here. Please leave me your thoughts. Read more
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