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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…nt that Exodus did not condemn Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill for over a year after it was proposed is not accurate. The Uganda conference attended by Exodus board member Don Schmierer took place in early March 2009. The conference generated criticism from many corners, including evangelicals with long-term engagements with Exodus like Warren Throckmorton who publicly questioned the conference, and gay and/or Christian Exodus critics who demande…

‘Biblical’ Stoning About Mental Health, Money, & Mormonism Too

By Joanna Brooks

…a brain injury at birth that left him with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old. For the first twenty years of his life, he had been institutionalized. For the last forty, he had managed to live independently, working in the laundry department at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in Landowne, Pennsylvania. According to his brother, Murray Seidman “was very empathetic and very social with all people.” In 2009, Seidman developed a friendship with 28-yea…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…h about those adventures. The red/blue political vocabulary just those few years ago felt unequal to my aspirations for empathy. When Sharlet’s The Family came out last year, I reviewed it in these pages. It was undeniably an important, penetrating, page-turner of a book, but my essay also ventured into disappointment with the ‘us vs. them’ language that the cultural Left had taken on for talking about religious conservatives. Who was the “we” Sha…

Sacred&Profane: The Sacred Pelvis

By Gary Laderman

…ow do the music and lyrics contribute to popular religious experiences that reimagine and reconstruct the world, invigorate and reinvigorate social bonds, and stimulate and liberate the body first, and then the soul? A visit to Graceland during death week this year, like any year, provides abundant evidence that religious life and investments do not always finally refer back to a God above or a soul within. Instead, at least for brief spell for ma…

The Law-less Legacy of Global Capital

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…erest in Law’s Bank, public interest immediately skyrocketed. Later in the year, some of Law’s enemies secretly collected some five million livres worth of notes and brought them to Law’s Bank demanding their immediate conversion into coin. Law contacted the Regent, and within 24 hours, produced the impressive sacks of money, much to the consternation of his opponents. There were two problems here. The first was that while Law needed to create the…

The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…controversial and largely discredited organization Priests for Life. Last year, Father Frank Pavone, the founder of the group, placed “unborn child’s corpse on the altar in Priests for Life’s chapel as part of two Facebook live videos urging people to vote for Donald Trump on Election Day.” The parish is deeply embedded in the anti-abortion movement. The current head of the largely Catholic March for Life is a member of the parish. Last year St….

No Zombie Jesus: The Vatican and Roger Haight

By Jason VonWachenfeldt

…bed language. At that time he had been at Union Theological Seminary for a year, an ecumenical institution, but Rome maintained the pressure on Haight. The most recent measure, announced last spring, decrees that he can no longer teach anywhere or publish, though he is allowed to honor his contract at Union for academic year 2008-2009. He has also been allowed to publish in the area of spirituality, an emerging field outside of the discipline of a…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…nate and belie the long and valued mutual respect that we have had in past years,” Otterson said in an e-mail. Michel noted that posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims play into the hands of Holocaust deniers. “They tell me, that my parents’ Jewishness has not been altered but … 100 years from now, how will they be able to guarantee that my mother and father of blessed memory who lived as Jews and were slaughtered by Hitler for no other reason t…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…he Grateful Dead. Maybe I have heard them before and didn’t realize it.” A year or so later, half-way through my freshman year of college in 1989, I went to my first Dead show near Chicago. I didn’t have a ticket (and didn’t care so much about the music, really) but wanted to see what all the fuss was about from a safe distance in the parking lot where the aromas and sights and sounds and colors and patterns and vibe of Deadhead central overwhelme…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ligious liberty, those in power can enshrine their beliefs into law. Every year, like clockwork, two groups voice outrage about the National Day of Prayer: conservative Christians who haven’t fact-checked the perennial rumor that Barack Hussein Obama has cancelled this year’s event; and secularist advocates like the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) who argue that it violates the separation of Church and State. (The FFRF challenged the const…