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Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…ghpoint, but rather as members of a heretical and unchristian faith. For a number of reasons, including Mitt Romney’s presidential run in 2012, those impulses have been largely diminished. But evangelical worries about Mormonism remain. That Mormons have so thoroughly repudiated Donald Trump while American evangelicalism wrestles with its complicated relationship with him only elevates evangelical leaders’ concerns about the strength of their fait…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…holiday to celebrate the end of slavery: Americans still can’t honestly discuss slavery. Even if red state legislatures weren’t aggressively trying to ban meaningful discussions of race and slavery, Americans by and large are woefully incapable of coming to terms with what slavery was and what slavery wrought upon America’s descendants of slaves and slaveholders (and all those in-between). So, the surrealness of people essentially greeting each o…

What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…nything about individuals and communities, and the adjectival use may be descriptive but can be also be applied across political, cultural, ethnic, and theological spectrums. “Native American,” like the term “Hindu” as noted above, is one of those labels that simultaneously misrepresents reality and creates it for communities of people who have experienced the ravages of colonization and disempowerment. Perhaps it is time to see “Christianity” in…

The Faith Outreach Canard

By Sarah Posner

…the political scientists note, there’s no proof that this was the problem. And given the across-the-board Democratic gains in the years Sapp cites as proof that his prescription works, there’s no evidence that his prescription would provide a cure to what ails the Democrats now….

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…Protect Children Project,” which opposes the use of corporal punishment in schools. It encouraged students to assert their religious conviction that their body is inviolable and cannot be subjected to abusive punishment. The Satanic Temple offered to put school boards “on notice” if they violate the religious rights of students. The campaign also produced a fact-sheet on the psychological damage caused by corporal punishment. MAY On May 5, the Sup…

55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

By Joanna Brooks

…at has not happened yet in most LDS communities is a frank and searching discussion of the scriptural and doctrinal basis for opposition to the full equality of LGBT people. Are we still holding on to Old Testament stories about Sodom and Gomorrah which have been reexamined by Biblical scholars and found to be at their ancient textual roots not a condemnation of homosexuality? Yes, Mormons are. Are we still holding to Levitical prohibitions of hom…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…take. So I tried on everything, including gifts from others. I’ve had to discard one pair of pants a gift from a friend in Indonesia, cause they are just too short on the waist and the leg (I am like a giant compared to the average Indonesian). Also those nifty dresses (or sacks) I bought there have a lining which is not cotton, and I looked closely at this yesterday because with temperatures over one hundred degrees, I might just cut the lining o…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…at was on full display Tuesday evening when the candidates were asked to discuss “a time that you have struggled to balance your personal faith and the public policy decision.” Kaine discussed his difficulty in applying the death penalty when he was governor of Virginia, despite his faith-based opposition: I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life. But I do not believe in this…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…seen in the history of astronomy, which is a history of receding horizons. Scientists have often balked (and not always for scientific reasons) at many of these outward steps. Tycho Brahe, a well-known Danish astronomer of the late 16th century, rejected Copernicanism not only because it contradicted the Aristotelian physics of his day, but because it increased the size of the universe by several orders of magnitude. In Brahe’s view, Copernicus’ S…

Commies, Blacks, Jews, the UCC and Other Threats to America

By Daniel Schultz

…lyn Pax Christi USA Tikkun-Network of Spiritual Progressives Jewish Funds for Justice Disciples Justice Action Network Sojourners Scary people, all of them. Scary!…