Pricey Revealer readers,
Welcome to our first problem in 2025! After a record-breaking rise in readership in 2024, we determined to start out this 12 months by specializing in a central theme at The Revealer: to grasp our world, we should perceive faith. This theme really permeates all of The Revealer’s points and podcast episodes. However we wished to start out 2025 by making that time specific. With a view to make sense of our political state of affairs, lots of our legal guidelines, our cultural pressures, our healthcare, and a lot extra, we should make faith central to our evaluation. Making a extra simply world is dependent upon it.
Revealer Editor, Brett Krutzsch
To make this level clear, our February problem appears at locations the place we’d not all the time suppose faith is a major issue. The problem opens with Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst’s “All Aboard the Orphan Practice,” the place they discover how deeply non secular the adoption business is in america and the way a lot of it helps white Christian nationalism. From there, we flip to a different facet of household life that doesn’t get sufficient consideration: connections between home abuse and faith. In “The Hindu Method of Life and Divorce,” Gargi Sen writes in regards to the deep cultural and non secular obstacles she confronted as a South Asian Hindu girl when she wished to divorce her abusive husband. Then, we flip to a distinct sphere of society: school scholar protests. As we highlighted again in summer season 2024, the school encampments and protests towards the conflict in Gaza had been full of faith. Right here, in “Towards Warfare: The Mysterious Loss of life of a Pupil Protestor,” David Griffith investigates a scholar from Notre Dame who mysteriously died greater than 50 years in the past and displays on what that scholar’s activism and demise reveal about in the present day’s campus protests and universities’ entanglements with firms and the federal government. Subsequent, we flip to a different space individuals hardly ever affiliate with faith: dance. In “The Sacred Steps of Ecstatic Dance,” Kathryn Dickason and Rashida Alisha Hagakore discover ecstatic dance, a motion sprawling throughout the globe that draws 1000’s of people who find themselves usually religiously unaffiliated however nonetheless all in favour of having communal, religious experiences.
Our subsequent articles think about faith in additional recognizable locations, however the place individuals have additionally skilled non secular trauma that seeps into different elements of life. In “The Resurrection of Todd Bentley,” Elena Trubea chronicles the rise, fall, redemption, and fall once more of a well-liked non secular chief to contemplate why individuals forgave him regardless of his lies and misconduct, and what that reveals about conservative Christian tradition in america. After which, in “The Questioning Embrace of Doubt and Religion,” Robert Monson presents a evaluation of the ebook Knock on the Sky by Liz Charlotte Grant (writer of this viral article about evangelical chief Elisabeth Elliot and her disturbing third marriage) and displays on how ex-evangelicals and others who now not imagine what they had been taught in regards to the Bible may use their doubt to search out which means within the biblical textual content alongside scientific and different information.
The February problem additionally contains the latest episode of the Revealer podcast: “Faith Is In every single place and Why That Issues.” Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst be a part of us to debate how faith shapes every thing from our calendars to our healthcare methods and our legal guidelines. We discover how faith influences our day by day lives even when we aren’t non secular. We additionally think about how we fail to handle social injustices if we don’t account for faith. And, we focus on what we must always do to assist convey a few extra simply society as soon as we start to acknowledge how faith is in every single place. You may take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I’m positive 2025 already appears like a tumultuous and unsure 12 months for a lot of of you. Between adjustments within the U.S. federal administration to the horrors of the local weather disaster, these first weeks of the 12 months have highlighted vulnerability and fears in regards to the future. I shall not provide simple solutions to those profound issues. However I can promise that The Revealer will proceed to offer insights about faith’s place in these substantial points. And with such information, we are able to acquire a extra full image of what’s at play and learn how to handle it with the hope that we are able to make the long run higher than our current.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
Pricey Revealer readers,
Welcome to our first problem in 2025! After a record-breaking rise in readership in 2024, we determined to start out this 12 months by specializing in a central theme at The Revealer: to grasp our world, we should perceive faith. This theme really permeates all of The Revealer’s points and podcast episodes. However we wished to start out 2025 by making that time specific. With a view to make sense of our political state of affairs, lots of our legal guidelines, our cultural pressures, our healthcare, and a lot extra, we should make faith central to our evaluation. Making a extra simply world is dependent upon it.
Revealer Editor, Brett Krutzsch
To make this level clear, our February problem appears at locations the place we’d not all the time suppose faith is a major issue. The problem opens with Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst’s “All Aboard the Orphan Practice,” the place they discover how deeply non secular the adoption business is in america and the way a lot of it helps white Christian nationalism. From there, we flip to a different facet of household life that doesn’t get sufficient consideration: connections between home abuse and faith. In “The Hindu Method of Life and Divorce,” Gargi Sen writes in regards to the deep cultural and non secular obstacles she confronted as a South Asian Hindu girl when she wished to divorce her abusive husband. Then, we flip to a distinct sphere of society: school scholar protests. As we highlighted again in summer season 2024, the school encampments and protests towards the conflict in Gaza had been full of faith. Right here, in “Towards Warfare: The Mysterious Loss of life of a Pupil Protestor,” David Griffith investigates a scholar from Notre Dame who mysteriously died greater than 50 years in the past and displays on what that scholar’s activism and demise reveal about in the present day’s campus protests and universities’ entanglements with firms and the federal government. Subsequent, we flip to a different space individuals hardly ever affiliate with faith: dance. In “The Sacred Steps of Ecstatic Dance,” Kathryn Dickason and Rashida Alisha Hagakore discover ecstatic dance, a motion sprawling throughout the globe that draws 1000’s of people who find themselves usually religiously unaffiliated however nonetheless all in favour of having communal, religious experiences.
Our subsequent articles think about faith in additional recognizable locations, however the place individuals have additionally skilled non secular trauma that seeps into different elements of life. In “The Resurrection of Todd Bentley,” Elena Trubea chronicles the rise, fall, redemption, and fall once more of a well-liked non secular chief to contemplate why individuals forgave him regardless of his lies and misconduct, and what that reveals about conservative Christian tradition in america. After which, in “The Questioning Embrace of Doubt and Religion,” Robert Monson presents a evaluation of the ebook Knock on the Sky by Liz Charlotte Grant (writer of this viral article about evangelical chief Elisabeth Elliot and her disturbing third marriage) and displays on how ex-evangelicals and others who now not imagine what they had been taught in regards to the Bible may use their doubt to search out which means within the biblical textual content alongside scientific and different information.
The February problem additionally contains the latest episode of the Revealer podcast: “Faith Is In every single place and Why That Issues.” Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst be a part of us to debate how faith shapes every thing from our calendars to our healthcare methods and our legal guidelines. We discover how faith influences our day by day lives even when we aren’t non secular. We additionally think about how we fail to handle social injustices if we don’t account for faith. And, we focus on what we must always do to assist convey a few extra simply society as soon as we start to acknowledge how faith is in every single place. You may take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I’m positive 2025 already appears like a tumultuous and unsure 12 months for a lot of of you. Between adjustments within the U.S. federal administration to the horrors of the local weather disaster, these first weeks of the 12 months have highlighted vulnerability and fears in regards to the future. I shall not provide simple solutions to those profound issues. However I can promise that The Revealer will proceed to offer insights about faith’s place in these substantial points. And with such information, we are able to acquire a extra full image of what’s at play and learn how to handle it with the hope that we are able to make the long run higher than our current.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
