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Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…treat Israel. There is this procession of sacred sites still held sacred. Colorado City has that same heightened sense of place. I drove and walked around Colorado City and attempted to be as invisible as possible. Ha! It kind of worked. One thing that surprised me was this roadside espresso stand, with two women in prairie dresses operating a relatively sophisticated espresso machine and next to it a mortar and pestle with homemade herbal add-on…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…onement than others). The placement of the first essay, “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado” (you’ll have to read it to get the title), is significant. Here Sharlet reminisces about, and later revisits, a college girlfriend; the two of them seemed to see things eye to eye in early adulthood, but years later as Sharlet visits her rural Colorado digs, he realizes the divergent paths that personal journeys can take. In setting up the book this way, there is…

Lila Rose, Defunding Planned Parenthood, and “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…learned a new fact about Rose. She is a graduate of Summit Ministries, the Colorado Springs organization that teaches teenagers and young adults about the only true worldview, Christianity. I wrote about Summit last year: [David] Noebel, or “Doc” as his devotees call him, is the doyen of Summit Ministries, the Manitou Springs, Colorado-based institution founded in 1962 to teach evangelical teens about anti-God, anti-Christian threats to the “Chris…

Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative

By Paul Harvey

…conservative hijackings of King and his legacy. While the local paper, the Colorado Springs Gazette historically has enlisted King in its daily defense of libertarianism, this year’s editorialist apparently gave up, simply consigning King Day to an apolitical celebration. Yes, we can all dream, and become whatever we want to be, so the day should be for a celebration of anyone’s dreams. “Regardless your politics, your opinions, take a moment today…

SCOTUS’s Incoherent ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ Decision

By Daniel Schultz

…sex couple due to his religious beliefs. He was substantially fined by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but with the help of the ADF, appealed the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, where he ultimately emerged victorious. The decision was “narrow” in the sense of being limited in scope and more concerned with procedure than setting broad precedent. That didn’t stop Brit Hume, Donald Trump Jr. and other conservatives from crowing about…

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…irst instance, Boebert told the church crowd at Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs that she prays Psalm 109:8 for President Joe Biden: “Let his days be few, and let another have his office.” Although at least one journalist claimed to be “shocked” by this behavior, praying for a president’s death is nothing new for right-wing American Christians. They did the same thing to former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. And gi…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…devotees call him, is the doyen of Summit Ministries, the Manitou Springs, Colorado-based institution founded in 1962 to teach evangelical teens about anti-God, anti-Christian threats to the “Christian worldview” and the American way of life. In his seminal textbook, Understanding the Times, Noebel lays out six “worldviews”—Christianity, Islam, secular humanism, Marxism-Leninism, cosmic humanism, and post-modernism—vying for domination in the worl…

Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…ers is a hardship for the employer. The non-Muslim workers at the plant in Colorado, as well as the community in Tennessee, in giving vent to their anti-immigrant and anti-Islam feelings have missed an important point: whatever their personal sentiments about immigrants or other religions, this country prides itself on freedom of religion. Islam is not incompatible with American values. The Pew Research Center has found that American Muslims are m…

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…refusal” case from an anti-gay baker in Colorado (Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission), followed by its highly selective reading of an actual ruling handed down the same day out of Arkansas that directly addressed the issues raised by Pidgeon. (The Arkansas case, which I wrote about here, is Pavan v. Smith.) Stern explains: The Texas Supreme Court acknowledged Pavan but noted that the justices also agreed to hear Masterpiece…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…a, Kansas, and attended Ted Haggard’s comeback church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition, I’ve talked to many many people along the way about their faith and religion. Most recently, I drove to Slab City, which is a forsaken piece of land out in the Colorado Desert near California’s Mexican border. People here say it’s the “last free place in America.” The site of a former military base, Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs on…