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Southern Baptists Embrace Minorities, but Not Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…munity would be a bit like spitting in the wind. But with their membership numbers dwindling over these past few years—and younger people increasingly growing more tolerant and accepting of LGBT people—the handwriting will be on the wall soon enough. Then perhaps we can celebrate the first lesbian first vice president of the convention as the denomination tosses a token bone to its latest minority in the hope of increasing membership. Wait, I feel…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ouse, and his colleague, Rob Tisinai, gives a better breakdown of what the numbers really mean—and it isn’t a rousing success story about “change.” “Out of 98 highly-motivated subjects, the authors found that a small, unspecified number can use prayer and counseling to shut down their sexual feelings or become a bit more bi. And possibly none who turned straight.” Even the researchers call their conclusions “overly optimistic.” “These results do n…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…y wins men 32-30, but Clinton romps among women, 51-22. The most important numbers may be still to come, however. PRRI looks to be releasing new information on the Catholic vote on Halloween, a number which often closely tracks the final total of overall voters. It’s also a number that varies quite a bit by the racial breakdown. While Trump wins white Catholics 48-41, he gets absolutely crushed among Hispanics, 84-12. A few back-of-the-envelope ca…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…with crowds swelling for the final weekend days (although nowhere near the numbers of 120,000 the organizers claimed for the Saturday evening—local press estimated no more than 10-12,000). Certainly one of the main attractions was the energetic local gospel music performed every night for hours before the preaching and healing began. Not only did it get us and our students dancing at the ground, but we could continue to enjoy its rousing sounds fr…

Why Isn’t Ferguson the Start of a New Civil Rights Movement?

By Rebecca Sager

…research on how progressive religious groups are working in politics I found there were myriad causes for why the movement had faded, from the spread of prosperity gospel, to tension between secular and religious activists within the progressive left, to the dwindling numbers in progressive pews, to the religious right’s monopoly on political religion. Perhaps in the wake of the tragedy in Ferguson there will be a renewed vigor from progressive ch…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…enormous collections of bad debt, or worse still, imaginary insurance policies, simply because the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them, cooked the books, sold this nonsense to their friends, and…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…tched around several city blocks, districts that were used to double-digit numbers were overwhelmed with thousands of participants, and the vast majority were adamant Sanders supporters. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected the “Mormon Vote” to go Sanders’s way—the latest polling had him up eight points, Sanders held huge rallies in both states, and Hi…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…erence came, the Africans found that they had been given these lovely cell phones, and there was no charge, and the reason why was because they wanted them to vote a certain way. The Africans have become a powerhouse to change the direction of the American churches. They have to depend on Africa to bring change at home. You will have a situation where an American might not say something, but Archbishop Akinola is free to say whatever he wants to s…

Bishop Among Those “Outed” by Ugandan Tabloid

By Jocelyn Edwards

…anti-gay legislation was proposed, though Mugisha suspects that the actual numbers may be much higher. Sitting in his office in an unmarked house in a Kampala suburb, Mugisha explains that the debate over the proposed law has increased the profile of gays and lesbians and polarized opinion on homosexuality even further. “Everybody is thinking, ‘What can I do for or against homosexuality in Uganda?’ Some people are saying, ‘What can I do to support…

Liberal or Literal? James Wood, Terry Eagleton, and the New Atheism

By Nancy Frankenberry

…in-punishing, prayer-answering, activist God who has a personal agenda and numbers every hair on our heads. But, as Dawkins observes repeatedly, this is precisely the form of religion embraced by millions and millions of ordinary people worldwide. By ignoring that fact, Gould was changing the subject, and so is Wood. Third, Wood scolds the New Atheists for failing to appreciate the fact that there are “millions of people whose form of religion is…