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A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

By Cristina Rosetti

…American religion’s entanglement with conservative politics. Earlier this year, PRRI offered statistics for the intersection of Q-belief and religion, noting that white evangelicals, Hispanic evangelicals, and Mormons are most likely to believe the ideas espoused by Q. This includes 21% of Mormons who believe in QAnon, and 18% who specifically believe that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…martyrdom, Abdulmutallab received four consecutive life sentences plus 50 years. He also earned the less-than-terrifying nickname of “underwear bomber.” At first glance, Abdulmutallab’s story fits the conventional narrative about suicide bombers: devoutness, then radicalization, and finally the culminating al-Qaeda training camp. Indeed, at his sentencing last year, Abdulmutallab’s address to the court can be read as a string of jihadic clichés….

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…t.” Despite legal challenges, PFM continued to minister in prisons and two years ago decided to direct a bulk of its considerable resources toward cutting recidivism, the rate of repeat offenses and incarceration, through the Out4Life program. In the coming year, it plans to launch Out4Life in ten additional states with more on the horizon. In creating Out4Life, PFM says it was responding to a deep need its volunteers and chaplains saw within pris…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in May 2014 and closely mirrored a law approved by Russia’s State Duma the year before. But in addition to the fine for the dissemination of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” envisioned by the Russian law, the Kyrgyz bill also proposed jail terms of up to one year for those who “promote homosexual relations” through the media or among children. The head of the committee on rule of law, order and fighting crime, Janybek Bakchiev, sai…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…an still win in state elections, of course, but even in evangelical strongholds like Texas and Georgia their numbers are dropping, and they know it. Falling in line behind Trump’s Big Lie while attempting to restrict voting is really about trying to protect something that they feel like they own, which is the country. And we are seeing some clear signs that they may be willing to use whatever means necessary to protect that ownership. Yes, because…

Just in Time for Darwin Sunday, Washington Post Misses the Point

By Lauri Lebo

…and the relationship between religion and science. This is project’s sixth year and the project has collected more than 13,000 signatures. This year, organizers are encouraging religious leaders to devote their sermons to the environment. For a list of participating places of worship near you, go here. From the Clergy Letter Project’s statement: Religious people from many diverse faith traditions and locations around the world understand that evol…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…o down in history as one of the greatest commencement speeches ever.” This year’s speaker was Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. On Saturday the Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age. Carter and the Falwell family have had an uneasy relationship over the years. Both Carter and Jerry Falwell Sr…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…searched the bureaucratic steps needed to leave the church officially last year.” ‘Jesus’ leaving the Church; a Saturday Night Live moment for sure! In developing countries, where the Roman Catholic Church is growing, sex abuse is just beginning to come into focus. Pictures of an elderly Brazilian bishop in bed with a young man hint at what is predictably another tawdry chapter in Church history written on yet another continent. Where will it end?…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…rch where religious rites including animal sacrifice would take place. Six years later, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city ban violated the church’s religious freedoms. It was the same year that Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents laws that place an undue burden on people’s ability to express their religion. The religious methods of slaughter such as the Jewish shechita and the Islamic dhabh remain…

Is God Irrelevant?

By Davidson Loehr

…lost most of its authority as the go-to place for our enduring questions, yearnings, stories and role models. Other stories, other myths, other people have become not only more appealing, but also better at helping us frame our abiding questions and experiences. The photo [left] of Palestinians protesting Israeli brutality dressed as the Na’vi from Avatar, provides a vivid example [see Shalom Goldman’s: Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters D…