Religion Dispatches
…n should submit their vote to their husband, because to vote opposed would cancel each other’s vote out. Joyce informed me that Chancey also “spoke about her opposition to women’s voting in a film by the Gunn Brothers, winners of Vision Forum’s annual Christian film contest, The Monstrous Regiment of Women.” Vision Forum like other Christian Reconstructionist-oriented agencies teaches that women should not vote or hold public office. The Alabama P…
Read More…the spectrum, the National Council of Churches is calling on Netanyahu to cancel the speech. The NCC claims it is a “leading force for shared ecumenical witness among Christians in the United States,” and that its “37 member communions — from a wide spectrum of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African American and Living Peace churches,” represent 45 million Americans. It’s hard to imagine a more sharply defined divide betwee…
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…rumors that King and Rustin were having an affair in order to get King to cancel a planned protest at the 1960 Democratic convention. Rustin resigned from the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protect the movement, but shortly thereafter was counted on to work under A. Philip Randolph to organize the March on Washington. King’s niece, Alveda, is an anti-gay activist who recently tried to rewrite history by claiming tha…
Read More…ew $115 million home. In a series of tweets, Tebow told his public that he cancelled because he wanted to keep it positive: “I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope, and Love to all those needing a brighter day!” But after talking to Jeffress—an outspoken antagonist of Mormons, Muslims, and homosexuals—the Daily Beast came away with the story that Tebow’s handlers might have urged him to cancel because Jeff…
Read More…alled to say church officials were giving him static and that we’d have to cancel it. Now, with the publication of his article in the Morningside Park Chronicle, church officials are demanding that he face a “tribunal” and respond to a laundry list of questions on homosexuality and biblical morality. The controversy at Zion Hill is emblematic of a national climate in which traditional black churches are increasingly being challenged on their homop…
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…e world’s Catholics were in Europe, but by the middle of this century that number will fall “to perhaps a sixth.” Geography is not destiny, but it is only natural that prelates from one part of the world will tend to speak for the traditions with which they are most familiar, which might well differ considerably from other regions. We saw early signs of this when the family synod was held in Rome in 2015, when the Church’s (mainly European) libera…
Read More…peech damages U.S.-Israel relations), and even that has moved only a small number of Democrats. As Greg Sargent observes: Among them are Reps. Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, Maxine Waters, Earl Blumenauer, Jared Huffman, and Senator Chris Coons. Others have criticized the “protocol” of the speech — which isn’t that hard, given that this criticism is mostly directed at Republicans — but have stopped short of calling for a delay, which could have actua…
Read More…s been put in the untenable position of either violating its conscience or canceling its health insurance. “What has brought us here is about student health insurance, but it’s bigger than student health insurance,” Paul Chelsen, the school’s VP of student development said at a student information session reported in the Chicago Tribune. “What really breaks my heart is that there are real people that are affected by our decision. But if we don’t w…
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…ns that they might be associated with the Gulen network. Within weeks, the numbers had swelled to the tens of thousands. The vast network of Gulen-related schools was closed. All university professors, regardless of the institution in which they taught, were constrained from traveling outside the country. Every university dean in the country was arrested or suspended. Ordinary prisoners were set free in order to make more room in the jails for any…
Read More…Perspectives” scheduled for September 25 which reportedly caused Chaput to cancel the group’s permission to use the space. “Unfortunately, this is yet another instance of the kind of exclusion LGBT Catholics and supporters have endured for decades. Bishops have refused to allow us to meet in our own Churches, retreat centers and colleges,” Equally Blessed said in a statement. “There is a lack of information in the Catholic Church about gender iden…
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