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Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…’s coming to America. You will not escape.” “I will speak to the kings and rulers of the world. I will speak to the pope and the religious leaders because you have to know that your time has come,” he said. “I desire to guide you and warn you of things that are coming that you must try to prepare yourselves for because we are absolutely living in the change of worlds.” Now, comes word of devastating landslides in the coffee growing areas of Uganda…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…lic Renaissance. As journalist and author Michael Pollan wrote in his 2018 New York Times bestselling book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, a growing interest in psychedelics is sweeping the nation as researchers and therapists consider the medicinal and therapeutic benefits of these ancient plants. Based on their initial findings, venture…

The Religious Motto That Isn’t Religious: How ‘In God We Trust’ Remains Constitutional [Part 2]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…o be walled off from one another, judges have essentially declared that entrusting this world to God is not a religious sentiment. This proclamation is itself religious. Imagine if these same judges had declared that the ubiquitous John 3:16 or praying the rosary have “no theological or ritualistic” importance because they had been so often repeated. The Christian nationalists’ outrage would, for once, be justified. What American Christian would l…

What Kim Davis Knows (Or Thinks She Knows) About Marriage, the State, and Sexuality

By William E. Smith

…Davis, the heretofore obscure Kentucky county clerk who has made national headlines because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. As of this writing, her next move has not yet been broadcast, but the story is certain to continue. Part of what makes Davis’s case compelling is her claim to religious freedom and the implicit question her behavior raises about what constitutes permissible civil disobedience. (It is worth noti…

Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls

By Andrew L. Seidel

…lunteers. A 67-year-old church clerk—a “church lady”—in the archdiocese of New York stole $1 million to buy dolls. Nor is the problem limited to the Catholic Church. Nearly every sect has seen million-dollar fraud from within, including Episcopalians, Baptists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and other religions too. We could debate whether immoral people seek out positions in the clergy or whether clerical life corrupts people, but that debate misse…

God May Weep For Church Sexual Abuse, But Bishop Chaput Prefers to Bark

By Anthea Butler

…its responsibility, but I’m really quite tired of people making unjust accusations against people who are not to be blamed—and that happens sometimes.” Some Bishops never learn. I’ve been covering sexual abuse on RD for a few years now, and I’m consistently shocked and stunned by clergy members and administrators who don’t seem to understand what a soul-gutting experience it is for people who have been sexually abused by those in religious author…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…sion of these two words, in a speech that used “discrimination” twenty-six times, is notable. It strongly suggests the refusal of Oaks, and of the Church, to recognize the inherent humanity and equality of LGBTQ+ people and the very real discrimination that we face at the hands of individual and institutional actors. Really, acknowledging that LGBTQ+ people are discriminated against in a speech about the future of religious freedom and nondiscrimi…

Why “Religion or Politics?” Is the Wrong Question

By Kate Blanchard

…immering conflict over Islam to come to a raging boil. The past few weeks’ headlines have included both anti-Muslim violence and pro-refugee rallies. But there is one assumption generally held in common by North Americans across the political-religious spectrum: the idea that “religion” and “politics” are two separate things. To wit, a Washington Post headline recently asked, “Why do so many Americans believe that Islam is a political ideology, no…

VIDEO: Sam Bee Roasts “President Pence” in America’s Coming Theocracy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ith current Vice President Mike Pence serving as commander-in-chief after Trump gets his head stuck in a honey jar. (Hey, as Minhaj noted at the other dinner, anything’s possible in Trump’s America, right?) The segment aired at the end of the night and wrapped a multi-part feature imagining Bee roasting several former presidents in period-appropriate attire. The “2018” clip depicts a modern American theocracy, where women must request “a rare exce…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…-steady stream of volunteers from expatriate Muslim communities around the world has decreased to a trickle. So although the Manchester attack may have appeared to put ISIS back into the headlines and back into the terrorist limelight, the movement is floundering. One tragically dedicated person with a suicide belt is not the same as a flourishing militant organization. But that raises the question of why someone like Salman Abedi would do such a…