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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ut your hand in that glove you will fail, regardless of how much credibility you have with the base.”[25] Vought calls for the abandonment of a democratic norm that has long been embraced on a bipartisan basis that Department of Justice (DOJ) decision-making regarding investigations and prosecutions should be shielded from political pressure by the White House. In his first term, Trump unsuccessfully pressured DOJ officials to investigate his poli…

Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

By Gabriel Mckee

…and Religion: Seeing What Others Do Not I still remember vividly when, many years ago, someone I knew was talking about how they had begun learning to paint, and how had they found to be true a tidbit of wisdom that another artist had passed on to them: Painting is not primarily about learning to mix colors or make brush strokes, as important as those skills are. Above all else, becoming an artist involves learning to see the world differently. B…

NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out

By Peter Montgomery

…standing and tolerant approach to other people: I’m from a close-knit family. My parents instilled Christian values in me. They taught Sunday school, and I enjoyed lending a hand. I take the teachings of Jesus seriously, particularly the ones that touch on tolerance and understanding. On family trips, my parents made a point to expose us to new things, religious and cultural. In Utah, we visited the Mormon Salt Lake Temple. In Atlanta, the house o…

Tea Party “Constitutionalism” on Abortion

By Julie Ingersoll

…cted. The Scott campaign was not available for comment but they are not denying Van Zant’s claim, saying only that Scott has “not changed his pro-life position.” While Van Zant did not get an up or down vote on his bill, there was significant pro-life support in the legislature that did pass a requirement that pregnant women get ultrasounds before being allowed to have abortions. Governor Crist vetoed that bill. The Tea-Party-supported view that…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…or a mujtahid to do taqleed.” The other kids nodded like zombies. Amazing Ayyub went over to them and just stood there, waiting for someone to acknowledge him. Saliha rolled her eyes at the oversize machine gun resting on his shoulder. Amazing Ayyub is a carryover character from Taqwacores and is on a mission to kill zombies. When he walks in on this conversation, it is the typical college conversation of students who believe they are discovering…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on of his position by the Human Rights Council last year was fought bitterly by anti-equality nations and nongovernmental organizations. The Chinese language version of “Advancing the Human Rights and Inclusion of LGBT People: A Handbook for Parliamentarians,” which was developed by the U.N. Development Programm and Parliamentarians for Global Action, is now available. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reviews the status of the transgender rig…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…18-time all-star. Flowers, photos, and candles were transported immediately by fans wearing Kobe’s jersey to create a memorialized space and share in the tragedy. Around the league, NBA games held moments of silence to recognize Kobe’s contribution to the sport, while individual players found ways to honor Bryant’s legacy. Some took symbolic penalties like a 24-second shot clock violation (Kobe wore number 24 for a significant portion of his care…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…are immediately deleted. The idea is to allow The Wailing Wall to bear away your burden.” Given the fact that both walls seem to function as a sort of “go-between” for the worshipper wanting to communicate with God, it certainly makes you wonder how the Second Life version of this activity compares to the courier service in Jerusalem in terms of what is “real,” what is “spiritual,” and what is “virtual” about prayer itself. Other religious groups…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…change nations. The following year, seeking to assist the family of Rami Ayyad, a Christian bookstore owner who was killed in Gaza, she traveled to the Ukraine and visited with Henry Madava, a pastor there who is Zimbabwean by birth. Bourland says that God had already given Madava the information that Bourland was going to tell him about a martyr. When she told him of her efforts to assist Ayyad’s family, she said, Madava was ready to hand her “a…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…uakes & Tsunami. God is trying 2tell us something! smitefulsinner‎ RT @rachydivanerd: Re: Japan: the 1st person to say that the earthquake’s an act of ‘god‘ to punish will be bludgeoned with a book on plate tectonics. … – More » G.R.O.W. God Renewing Our Women Please be praying for all those invovled in the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and all over the world. The Bible says that these times will come and have to come but lets remember the peopl…