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Virgins and Vampire Worship: The Religion of Twilight

By Linda Kay Klein

…as many of them remain in traditional religious communities. Erzen’s 2009 online survey, completed by almost 600 fans, shows that 98 percent of the US Twilight fanbase is made up of women; eighty percent identify as nondenominational Christians or Catholic, while the remainder identify as spiritual. Meanwhile, Erzen one estimate says that over 90 percent of Mormon women have read the series. So, why Twilight? Erzen thinks that it has to do with t…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…God night after night, “Please don’t let me feel this way anymore.” I was dating girls. I considered myself straight, but eventually I had to acknowledge I wasn’t straight and that there was a word for guys who were attracted to guys and that word was “gay.” That sent me through a real period of struggle and a journey trying to understand what in the world that meant for me. I got to know gay people and I talked to my Christian friends about it….

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…Mormon version of Williamsburg, Virginia), to Martin’s Cove, Wyoming, the site of a terrible handcart disaster in 1856 that has been converted into a faith-promoting heritage site. These and other hallowed places allow Utah Mormons to commemorate the “pioneer trek” to the Great Basin. The sacred narrative of getting to Utah is more important than Zion itself. The other church program is the worldwide creation of temples: those special-use limited…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…image of ourselves and our community that young and urbane Mormons love. (Site designers describe the site’s design principles as “joyful, reverent, inspiring, authentic, and relevant.”) It’s also clearly an effort to address the major PR problems facing the Church as it continues to contend with century-old stereotypes about Mormons as clannish polygamists as well as with recent fallout from its heavy involvement in California’s Proposition 8 ca…

The Leadership Failure of Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…r who grew up in the shadow of the Towers, there is pain in seeing how the site has been turned in theater. Thousands of people died on that site, but for New Yorkers, life goes on: we are building an office building on that site, and the surrounding neighborhood has rebounded nicely. The space is as hallowed as the ground of Murrah Federal Building. In this context, a visionary leader can affect real, positive change in the social fabric of Lower…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…hile the Wall, especially in the last year, has become a symbol of the opposite, the impediment to civil and human rights created by the Israeli civil government’s entanglement with official state religion. The Western Wall is a remnant of the retaining wall that surrounded the courtyard of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. For centuries, it has been a site for Jewish pilgrimage and worship, one of the holiest places on earth for Jews. Since the Si…

Bachmann’s “Dangerous” Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ping equip Christians to know and understand the TRUTH.” “Caution,” the website warned in 2004, “the information contained on this web site may cause you to become dangerous!” The internet archive shows an amateurish site dedicated largely to attacks on evolution and encouraging students to question their teachers according to their “Christian worldview.” It touted “learning tools” on secular humanism, cosmic humanism, Marxist/Leninist ideology, e…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…e gay teens are encouraged to discuss their experiences of homophobia. The site still can be accessed outside Russia, but inside the country the site displays an October closure order. Xenia Loutchenko, a Moscow commentator who writes on church affairs, says Putin and an inner Orthodox circle are driving the air of social retrenchment, not any grass-roots desire for a sterner, more judgmental Russia. “There is a demand for an ideology, and they’re…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…an “accountability relationship” text for support. Image: Covenant Eyes website. On the Covenant Eyes website, porn “addiction” is couched as a masculine sin to produce heteropatriarchal gender relations as the norm. A dropdown menu under the “Why Am I Here?” tab reads, first, “To overcome porn, as a Man,” and then “To overcome porn, as a Woman.” Clicking on the different links for “man” and “woman” leads to distinct experiences. The men’s site is…

Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ize Romney.) Americans United for Life? Again, as of 4 p.m. central, their online media center made no mention of it. LifeSiteNews, which previously reported on a Romney fundraiser at the home of a pharmaceutical executive whose company makes the morning after pill, and which published a piece in January calling Stericycle a “medical waste giant allied with the abortion industry” didn’t turn up anything when I did a search for “Romney” and “Steric…