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Bishop Sends Shockwave, Slaying the Sacred Cow of Individual Salvation [Includes an online comic]

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…world. They’ve got their salvation and nothing can take it away, so they think nothing of cheating, stealing, lying, or even killing—sometimes in the name of their savior. Rev. Schori’s amazing opening words to her flock call us from this insidious practice and rightly names it for what it is—heresy and idolatry. Focusing only on our own needs—with perhaps scraps and crumbs thrown to “the least of these”—has produced a selfish church preaching a…

Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…it a particular sexual act, their penalties and purposes have more far-reaching consequences, touching upon the most private human conduct, sexual behavior, and in the most private of places, the home. They seek to control a personal relationship that, whether or not entitled to formal recognition in the law, is within the liberty of persons to choose without being punished as criminals. The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…immediately before the millenial return of Jesus Christ, “Gog and Magog,” which he interpreted as Soviet Russia, would lead ”Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya,” and “Gomer and Togarmarh” (interpreted as Turkey and Eastern Europe) in war against Israel. “Russia will arm and equip a vast confederacy,” Lindsey wrote. “The territory of Northern Africa is becoming solidly pro-Soviet.” But according to Lindsey divine intervention would save Israel, defeat Gog…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…intending that his outline for the latter book “would be fleshed out using his archival sermons.” The foreword does not explain who would be responsible for this fleshing out. A Graham byline is not definitive proof of authorship. Many, many texts that have appeared over the years with that byline were not written solely, or even primarily, by him. The “My Answer” syndicated newspaper column, for example, for years featured Graham’s name and pictu…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…on copies and is the highest-selling nonfiction book in the nation’s publishing history. Time magazine named him one of “15 World Leaders Who Mattered Most in 2004,” and in 2005 the magazine had him on its list of “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Well-traveled, it sometimes seems that Warren is appearing everywhere at about the same time; from Africa to Washington, DC, from Europe to New York City, from YouTube to iTunes. Over the years…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…itical gains, as well as the Georgian Orthodox Church, might be actually behind this “provocative” constitutional lawsuit to use it as a pretext for justifying a need for introducing constitutional bar to same-sex marriage. EurasiaNet’s Maia Edilashvili reports on an initiative to engage priests of the Georgian Orthodox Church about the benefits of closer ties with the European Union. The Church is the country’s most trusted public institution. Of…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…e say I composed this entry starting from SFO airport en route to Philadelphia. This means I can no longer control formats and things like marking foreign words with italics. I think some people know that in my past life I was an academic. So things like format and italics make a difference. But I can’t get what I want with the Ipad, as far as word processing goes. That may be a blessing in disguise. I mean, I can always blame things that get misc…

The Other Mormon Candidate

By Anthea Butler

…He spoke with me recently via Skype from the front seat of his Suburban as his wife drove him to another campaign engagement. Chris, a very amenable guy, is not only running for congress, but teaching SIX sections of Political Science at Casper College. That would be yeoman’s duty without running for congress, but in an election where his opponent has about 40 million to spend, it’s a bit daunting! Students have a good attitude about his run for c…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…g a garbage truck through the city. I tagged along on one of his runs, watching him as he swung easily from the truck’s cab, heaving the plastic cans off the curb and dumping their contents into the crusher. Nickelberry remembers the job conditions that led to the 1968 strike and prompted King’s arrival in Memphis. He said he and his fellow workers were treated “no better than the garbage” he has collected for 55 years. He described how he was for…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…ceed to claim that their heads came up with the whole thing from scratch. This is, I think, one of the devilish little tricks of patriarchy—to write mothers and communities out of the story with the correcting fluid of pure reason. You write that “faith is a process, not a possession.” You seem to be arguing that the proof of the existence of God is in the desire for faith. Well, there is an “argument from desire” that was semi-articulated by Aug…