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Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ere persecution, bullying, and violence occur.” The announcement of the protest comes on the heels of an announcement by another “ex-gay” group, Exodus, that they would no longer sponsor the annual “Day of Truth” that encourages students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behavior” with a Christian message of intolerance. “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grac…

How Should Mormons Respond to Leader’s Anti-Gay Comments?

By Joanna Brooks

…old leftovers, warmed over yet again, despite the hard work toward finding common ground and reconciliation. But now that some time has passed, I’ve seen a renewed dedication to opposing messages of fear and misunderstanding and to publishing messages of confidence and love. There are still a lot of people who are hurting and upset and questioning whether they should continue to be involved with their religion, but there are also people channeling…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

…g ground across the United States and efforts to improve understanding and compassion around LGBT issues taking place at the local level within the LDS Church, it was not surprising to hear Packer, who is 86 years old and in frail health, mount a staunch defense of the most conservative Mormon standpoints on LGBT issues. Of the idea that LGBT people might experience “inborn tendencies” towards homosexual attraction, Elder Packer said, “Not so! Why…

Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

By Ryann Croken

…te was infested with oil. Kruse’s surviving brother, Frank, explained this complication to reporters at al.com, “We’d like to [scatter his ashes] sooner rather than later, but we really don’t know when we’ll be able to do it because you can’t predict what the oil’s going to do,” he said. “One day there’s no oil, and the next day we’re covered up with it.” I don’t know the Kruses, and, as a Gulf outsider, I’m afraid I have nothing to offer them but…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…ctivity ID card” must be shown over and over, though the suspicion of a hidden agenda never goes away. He feels compelled to point out that his mother, wife, and brother-in-law (an evangelical pastor) are Christians to further separate his own faith from the aims of his scholarship. Whether in the classroom, at the dinner table, or on the ski lift, telling someone that you study religion is most often followed with, “Which one?,” as though a singu…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…ssue of Time stated, “At first glance, the YFZ ranch has the look of other compounds built by apocalyptic cults led by charismatic tyrants.” But there is a big difference between the situation of the Branch Davidians, also labeled a cult, and that of the YFZ community—and that is the believers’ degree of access to the media. The Branch Davidians were not permitted outside contact after the FBI took control of the site, and were unable to convey th…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…. I leave you the last image of Noah: passing on his blessing and the responsibility to care for the earth and all her creatures to his twin infant granddaughters. He does so with the shed skin of the serpent wound around his arm like tefilin—bands of prayer bearing the Most Holy Name of God. Interpret that! *This essay first appeared on floodofnoah.com and is published under a Creative Commons license….

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…rstwhile Russian partners in the global culture wars? Graham has been an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, who welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (and a Russian state photographer) to the White House on May 10, a day before the start of BGEA’s summit. This oddly timed photo-op, paired with Pence’s meeting with Metropolitan Hilarion, would seem to herald a turn toward normalization of rel…

Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…help build capacity and resilience—factors that allow congregations to act competently on their sense of compassion. Now is the time to examine what this church, and all other congregations of all faiths, can contribute, rather than just heed the call of an angry mob that sees an asset going unused. But in the long run, Harvey presents Osteen with a wake-up call to the deficit in his moral leadership, prosperity theology and organizational practic…

Catholic Nuns Show Bishops How it’s Done on ObamaCare

By Patricia Miller

…at don’t further limit abortion or contraception) through an obscure USCCB committee run by an equally obscure bishop, 7,150 Catholic nuns were willing to sign their names to efforts they see as a direct affront to their mission “to serve our nation’s most vulnerable people.” And, unlike the bishops, they are willing to criticize not just the plan but the whole haphazard, politically driven process that may culminate today with senators being aske…