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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ion in “Google searches for churches,” yet more evidence of the increasing number of “nones,” or that “searches related to the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, church and prayer are all highly concentrated in the Bible Belt. They rise on Sunday everywhere.” Other patterns are more jarring: “Relative to the rest of the country, for every search I looked at, retirement communities search more about hell,” he writes. Each month, on average, 422 people in th…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rning senators that reversing marriage equality could cause the country “serious reputational damage.” But supporters of the legislation said it reflected public opposition to marriage equality. Winston Godwin, the person whose legal challenge led to the marriage equality ruling, urged Governor John Rankin to refuse to give assent to the Domestic Partnership Act. Reporting on the legislation in Bermuda, Cayman News noted, “However, on this issue B…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…udied, and at least 12 were formally approved as of 2008—according to most numbers (although even a simple count of “official” sites is hard to obtain), Our Lady of Good Help is the 13th. Pope Benedict XVI recently called for more moderation in approving such sites, but any new regulations did not fall into place in time to stop Bishop Ricken from pushing Adele Brise into the international spotlight. Benedict probably doesn’t have to worry about A…

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins

By Johnny P. Flynn

…8, 2009, Ray gathered all the people at the Angel Valley Retreat for a Warrior Sweat which was scheduled to last for two or more hours. More than fifty “grandfather stones” were brought into the sweat lodge and by the end of the ordeal two were dead, one more would die without recovering consciousness, and fifteen were reported to be suffering ill effects. In spite of the number of people who experienced difficulties during each of the eight fift…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…l population in the United States. However, white Catholics have been in serious decline during the same period. It’s only lopsided margins of Catholics among immigrant groups (especially Hispanics) that has propped the Church up in the past forty years. Hispanic Catholics have a high fertility rate (2.75 children per couple), second only to Muslims in the U.S. Non-Hispanic Catholics (2.11 children), meanwhile, look a lot like moderate Protestants…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…teachings,” maintains www.radicalislam.org, a website maintained by the Clarion Fund, producer of anti-Islam films Obsession and The Third Jihad. The Clarion Fund, whose advisory board includes Gaffney, was founded by rabbis and others associated with the Orthodox Jewish group Aish Hatorah. CUFI has helped distribute Clarion Fund films, which include many of the central players in the shari’ah scare industry as “experts,” demonstrating how the sym…

Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…f Duke and UC-Berkeley researchers highlights the continuing growth in the number of Americans who indicate no religious affiliation, with a full 20% now answering “none” when asked “What is your religious preference?” Michael Hout and Claude S. Fisher of UCB and Mark A. Chaves of Duke drew on data from the most recent General Social Survey (GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as rel…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…esident C.J. Mahaney have broken the striking silence they had maintained prior to the dismissal of the suit, seizing on Judge Burrell’s ruling as an opportunity to come to Mahaney’s defense. Leaders from “Together for the Gospel” (T4G) a ministry for evangelical pastors co-founded by Mahaney, and The Gospel Coalition (TGC), which counts Mahaney as one of its council members, released statements within a day of each other, both praising Mahaney’s…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es, “She Was Pretty.” “She Was Pretty” will serve as his final drama role prior to his November 2015 enlistment in the Korean military. Azerbaijan: European Parliament denounces repression of LGBT advocates Last week the European Parliament adopted a resolution denouncing the intimidation and repression of LGBT people and their allies. According to the parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights: The overall human rights situation in Azerbaijan has det…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…