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Status of Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Unclear; U.S. Religious Right Support Isn’t

By Peter Montgomery

…far right WND on Museveni’s prayer began circulating among ecstatic conservative evangelicals, while an email from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council cheered Museveni and called it “an inspirational moment for the nation, which has stood—often alone—for traditional values, abstinence, and families despite tremendous pressure from the West.” Perkins also quotes Scott Lively, who called the prayer “a model for all Christian leaders in the…

Rick Warren, Is That All the Courage You Can Muster?

By Ross Murray

…ck Warren’s tweet is largely about maintaining his image as the “moderate evangelical” and “good guy.” Those familiar with the Bible might say that he’s “washing his hands” of the whole situation (that phrase comes from a pretty famous Bible story, y’all). An Adan Garcia and Wayne Self comic critical of Warren’s priorities jokes that “ANY hero can help the downtrodden, but only Captain Saddleback is there for the hardly trodden at all!” Yes, Rick…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…te joined forces to pass repressive legislation. Here in the states, conservative American evangelicals have strongly resisted moves by the Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advance LGBT equality as an internationally recognized human right. The infamous anti-gay bill in Uganda, inspired and backed by some American religious right figures, did not become law in 2012; its supporters will make another push there. Meanwhi…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…tion of your place on the theological spectrum? You’re being billed as an evangelical pastor, is that the way you would identify yourself? [RB]: If by the word “evangelical” you mean “good news,” I would love to be a person of good news. [WG]: That is… [RB]: So I love… The original use of that word comes from the first Christians; there was a global military super-power called the Roman Empire, and they had lots of military propaganda convincing p…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…“winner” nation over that of a theocratic one. In 2007, for example, conservative evangelical leaders threatened to go third party if the GOP nominated a candidate insufficiently opposed to abortion. In 2016, the party could well nominate the candidate (Trump) with the thinnest record opposing abortion and the lowest number of mentions of the issue on the campaign trail. And he’s doing this, according to some polls, with the support of at least a…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…l to all those who, free themselves, speak out in our support. There are a vast number, I know. I know that a huge number of Orthodox people are standing up for us. They are praying for us outside the courtroom, for the members of Pussy Riot who are incarcerated. We’ve seen the little booklets Orthodox people are handing out with prayers for those in prison. This shows that there isn’t a unified social group of Orthodox believers as the prosecutio…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…would be if any of the following are true: The National Review is a conservative publication, and meanwhile conservatives in the US are fighting a PR war because they’re perceived by many as espousing virulent, mean-spirited sexism; There is a non-trivial number of men who actually love their daughters and are neither disappointed they exist nor convinced that it means they’re low-status males; There is a non-trivial number of human beings who ar…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…educators or health care professionals grapple with on a daily basis? The number-crunchers are forcing us to speak their language and play their game, though they make no parallel effort to learn ours. And that is precisely what this not-so-benign linguistic analogy suggests. If “religion” (never defined) is like Quechua—and thus rapidly dying out, I take it—then who’s speaking the religious equivalent of imperial Spanish? It would seem to be the…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ey once called “¡Viva Romero!” Lewis Wallace quotes one of the shrine-keepers in Champion, who clearly understands why Our Lady of Good Hope has won episcopal support and the tacit approval of the Vatican: “A lot of people say well, why do you think it happened now? Well, every apparition is meant for its certain time in history.”…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…pseudoscience), her misinterpretation of key texts, and an unusually high number of factual inaccuracies (by some independent estimates, up to 500 errors). Doniger had every right to publish her book, and like every academic work, it will have its supporters and detractors. However, by dismissing her intellectual critics outright and not fully explaining the inaccuracies of her book, Doniger did a fundamental disservice to the nature of academic…