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Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…ey about the fallout from the storm and about how religious and scientific communities might be able to communicate more effectively. It seems like a lot of your research is focused on demonstrating that despite the way that they’re generally talked about, science and religion are in fact compatible, or at least that people believe that they are. Is that fair? It depends who you’re talking to and what you mean by science. We surveyed evangelical C…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ssage: that the federal government is no longer standing behind vulnerable communities, and communities that need protection by our civil rights laws, because of tremendous discrimination that still exists in this country.” While LGBT Americans are by no means the only community in the crosshairs, the administration’s uncharacteristic focus on rolling back legal and legislative protections for LGBT people does set the Trump-Pence White House apart…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dog, or a piece of furniture. But, as more and more lesbians and gay men raising children move into the neighborhoods of suburbia, the more “normal” gay and lesbian relationships will be. The census shows this is already happening and that more and more gay and lesbian people are feeling comfortable enough to come out on a government form and be counted. What it proves is that more and more people are catching on to the lies being told by the reli…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…without children, and so on who are often given a less than hospitable welcome in many religious communities. It’s fair to assume, as well, that even religious groups truly desiring to embrace all comers may be off-putting to people already predisposed to or suffering from mental disorders. The “organization”—liturgical, ideological, social—in organized religion may itself render the worship experience psychologically difficult even for those who…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will become. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.” The unexpected challenges of the House of Danger, whether 19th century ghosts or aliens or holographic chimpanzees, must be dealt with by individuals. By “you.” For Montgomery, the same was true of real-life challenges like global warming. As he reflected in a blog post during a long Vermont Winter a few years before he…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e late 1990s. The fact is, a significant number of Serbs, and even a large number of others from traditionally Orthodox backgrounds, continue to harbor a great deal of anger about Western intervention in the Kosovo War, which they see as a failure by the West to comprehend the historical role-reversal that’s taken place, including the persecution of Orthodox Christians by Albanians and other majority-Muslim ethnic groups during the Ottoman period….

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…clarity. Sen. Doug Cox, who criticized other members of the Public Health committee for their unwillingness to put their reassurances in writing, proposed a number of amendments. So did other legislators, such that by the time SB-1433 was scheduled to be voted on, it was groaning under the weight of amendments. But the real turnaround came when Speaker Steele proposed an amendment to an amendment that, in essence, would have given teeth to the r…

The War On Terror Is Over

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e how completely this promise is kept. If the withdrawal is slow, if large numbers of combat forces remain in a new name, such as “military advisors,” if the huge US military bases that have been constructed in the Iraqi desert are allowed to remain under US control, Obama’s words about withdrawal from Iraq might be seen as an empty promise. Of even more concern is Obama’s stance on Afghanistan. During the campaign, he has called for an increase o…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…Conference of Catholic Bishops, who personally went to the White House to complain to Obama. A special committee was formed. Legislators were lobbied. Lay Catholics were called on to protest. A scorching letter was read aloud by bishops at masses across the country. And threats were made about the Catholic vote in 2012. But now, even as the clearly deceptive and immoral Trump administration plunges further into chaos and the Republican Party uses…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…playing a long game. New Bills in the 2020-21 Project Blitz Playbook: Ten Commandments Display Act—Encourages the display of the biblical Ten Commandments in public buildings. Proclamation of Call to Prayer for America Day—Based on a “memorial” adopted by the New Mexico House of Representatives, for “the purpose of calling the nation back to prayer, and… the need for America to turn back to God and prayer, not for a single day or month, but to pr…