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Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…ugh Lena, sent an email to the faculty informing them the lecture violated official church policy (an assertion which is one of Lena’s many “blatant errors of fact” in the statement) and that it would thus be cancelled. Lena did not contact Corvino, who only learned of the event’s cancellation when Christopher Arroyo, who helped organize the event, e-mailed him. On Wednesday, facing national outcry, Lena released another statement, announcing tha…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…record of white liberals during the first half of this country’s 240-year official history. This was a time when enlightened white reformers—and religiously motivated reformers in particular—exercised actual power. But the use they made of that power comprises a dismaying narrative of faulty assumptions, mixed motivations, and a deep-seated, if unacknowledged, racism. This is the burden of English historian Nicholas Guyatt’s Bind Us Apart: How En…

A Note To Churches During Pride: If You’re Not LGBTQ-Affirming, Keep Your Water

By Chrissy Stroop

…same thing: https://twitter.com/Chris_SmithsJ/status/1397528844748345348?s=20 Christians always have a visible presence at Pride. Seeing those who are there to represent churches always makes me feel ambivalent at best (and often at least a little suspicious), but I can’t take issue with affirming churches showing up. After all, Pride is about community. Many queer folks are Christians, and they can benefit from learning about local congregations…

Op-Ed: God is Green

By Ayesha Mattu

…er sources were not to be harmed. And this theology was regularly put into official practice over the centuries. As American Muslim scholar Zaid Shakir has said: “The protection of natural habitat, the well-being of animals, and related responsibilities were often overseen by appointed officials, members of the world’s first environmental protection agencies.” Dr. Derek Wall of the UK’s Green Party has remarked (in an article for the UK’s Guardian…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…eply suspicious of the outside world and its values. Catholic and Orthodox officials even joined forces last year to block a bill in the New York State legislature that would have temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on abuse claims. But the similarities end there. The Orthodox movement is much smaller than the Catholic Church and doesn’t have an overarching figure like the Pope to make decisions. In the Pope’s place are countless rabbini…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…epresentative of two sides of a current debate in psychology. In fact, the official pronouncements of the mental health professions are clear that scientific evidence does not warrant psychologists telling a client that therapy can change orientation. In fairness, there are small groups of therapists associated with religious groups who question the APA’s findings. However, most of the therapists who argue with the APA are associated with churches…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…r “sending the reprobate who insulted the Prophet to hell.” And one of the official Iranian newspapers wrote approvingly that “Azerbaijan’s Salman Rushdie is dead.” As 70% of Azerbaijanis are Shia with allegiances to the Iranian clergy, it did not prove difficult to incite someone to murder Rafiq Tagi. In December seven prominent intellectuals called on the European Union to investigate the circumstances of Tagi’s death. Among them were Taslima Na…

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…tate agent accidentally forwarded the couple an e-mail in which a diocesan official said the church was no longer interested in a deal “because of the potentiality of gay marriages there.” The couple sued under the state’s anti-discrimination law, and Coakley weighed in on this point (emphasis mine): Our laws provide important protections for religious organizations and people of faith,” Coakley said in a statement. “These laws also strike a bala…

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

…istian nationalist sausage factory that is “State Senator David Bullard’s” official Facebook page shows that he’s something of a David Barton fanboy. Barton is one of the most prolific propagandists for American Christian nationalists and Bullard’s page showcases his devotion to such men, including Glenn Beck. The page itself is a monument to conservative, White Christian men. Facebook, already a toxic cesspool of confirmation bias and disinformat…

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ferred to as “the university,” by students, parents, and even a university official giving a speech. The unnamed hospital has a sign that says “Hospital.” But it isn’t really universal, is it? It depicts what abortion would be like if women were all beautiful, tragic figures, living in a world run by men who treated them with, not respect, but a kind of indulgent kindness. Well, okay. In the real world of policy, poverty, pregnancy complications,…