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In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

…reas Dawkins had found both in his chosen field. Rather than having fights online with the rather low-hanging fruit among his detractors, my hope is that the release of An Appetite for Wonder a few months ago, and the subsequent inspiration and awe around scientific discovery that readers have experienced, will bring out more of the Dawkins that so many came to respect and admire before he was made most famous for his atheism. Not because of what…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…gospel album pulled from performances at churches (he basically hijacked a Sunday morning at Big Creek Baptist Church), the prison chapel at his alma mater San Quentin, and a rescue mission in Nashville. It’s a masterwork of spiritual and musical generosity: he makes space on the album for pastors’ prayers and rambling introductions, the prison choir, and a duet with his wife Bonnie Owens. Where other country artists would have tried to wring ever…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…r the past year. They’re drawing on the history of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS), an international network of over 2,000 faith leaders led by mainline Protestants and Reform Jews. Founded in 1967, the clergy fought for the liberalization of abortion laws and helped thousands of women obtain legal and illegal abortions. Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper participated in CCS while she was a student at the University of Chicago Divinity Schoo…

The Panic Over Churches’ Tax-Exempt Status in a Gay-Married World

By Sarah Posner

…for conservatives to start raising alarm bells about the Internal Revenue Service (which they already hate) yanking the tax exemption of religious organizations and churches who oppose same-sex marriage. Travis Weber, director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, told Fox News’ Shannon Bream that “he believed Verrilli’s logic would eventually extend to churches and just about ‘anyone holding a traditional view of marriag…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…with the public. South Africa: Pastor teams up with US pastor banned from country for anti-gay extremism Last September, the government banned extremist anti-gay American pastor Steven Anderson from the country. Anderson, who preaches that gays should be put to death, responded to the massacre at the gay nightclub in Orlando by saying “there’s 50 less pedophiles in the world.” The Mail & Guardian reports that an anti-gay pastor in Cape Town, Rev….

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…ation, he argued, and the founders “understood that they were founding the country upon the concept that goes back into the Judeo-Christian thinking that there is Someone there who gave inalienable rights.” Those principles had vanished in the 20th century and the government now rested in the hands of materialists and humanists. Within a year A Christian Manifesto had sold approximately 300,000 copies, winning the enthusiastic endorsement of Jerry…

The Theo-logic Behind Pat Robertson’s Offense

By Matt Recla

…ain it to an individual who has just suffered the loss of a loved one—or a country that has just lost thousands. The lie of controlled divine uniformity is exposed by indiscriminate tragedy. The selfishness of an egotistical God is revealed. What exactly is exposed? The fragility of our world views. The tenuous grasp we have on God and our doubts as to whether s/he exists. The fact that the majority of us will not respond in any tangible way to a…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…oice movement, love Israel so much, shouldn’t they be up in arms about the country adopting one of the world’s most expansive abortion policies? The Daily Beast’s Jonathan Krohn set out to find out (“You would expect conservative groups to go ballistic when it comes to taxpayer funding of abortions,” reads his lede) and got a number of vague answers which suggested that US anti-choicers don’t feel particularly inclined to export the abortion wars…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…r outfit lies in “the visibility religious minorities need to have in this country.” “Isn’t this an interesting wrinkle, though,” Goldblum continued, waving his hands around his face with pre-COVID abandon. “Is there something in that religion that is anti-homosexuality and anti-woman? Does that complicate the issue?” (emphasis added, and Reader: feel free to pause and hit the shade rattle button if you need to). “I’m just raising it and thinking…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…t we’re hoping is that we are able to not only work with clergy across the country, but that we’re also able to work with advocates across the country who are interested in mobilizing faith communities or working alongside progressive organizations. We would want to grow and build this power, both secular and non-secular power. It’s all one big world after all, right? All of us coming together is imperative. We hope clergy will take positions on s…