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Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…experts, or psychologists, or others who have been trained in methods that help one to recognize bias and account for it responsibly.) One of my favorite informal fallacies to teach students is called the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. The story goes that a fellow shot a bunch of times at the side of an old barn, then painted bullseyes around each bullet hole and proclaimed himself a marksman. The marksman’s folly is easy to see in the story, but a b…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…g in the rhetorical feel, the affective language of this letter that might help pull a reader through. The letter’s laments are couched in the language of praise. Francis the pope lures the reader in with the poetry of Francis the saint. The encyclical reads, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us… This sister now cries out to us b…

Vandals Deface Easter Billboard in New Zealand

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat if you’ve got your beliefs right, then you’re done—no need to actually help anyone—because belief is the only thing required. Indeed, we get a society that reduces action on Jesus’ words to that of the heresy of “works righteousness.” Instead of honoring those who follow Jesus’ example, we’re told, “Love your neighbor all you want, feed the poor all you want, clothe the naked all you want, help the least of these all you want, but nothing you…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…le to go around the country to visit the ten provinces we’ve received some help financially and also we’ve received some help from the teams from America visiting and working with us,” Mpofu said. “The support has been tremendous.” More recently, the ACLJ has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association based on nothing more than a bogus Fox News report that the group hosted speakers with terrori…

Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…ther,” said Bush. “Asked her to participate as a friend in the wedding, to help organize it. And she thought about it, and said, look, I love you, you’re my friend, but I can’t participate. It goes against my conscience.” Of course Bush isn’t a lawyer, so he may not be aware that many states, including Washington, have laws that prohibit discrimination in public accommodations based on sexual orientation. As he and Brody noted, the baker must serv…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y groups, will conduct a public consultation in Geneva that is designed to help him identify priorities and set short- and long-term goals. According to the office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, “The consultation is open to States, UN agencies, programmes and funds, regional human rights mechanisms, National Human Rights Institutions, members of civil society organizations, religious communities and interfaith groups, medical profess…

Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…oughts or feelings or engage in homosexual behavior, Church leaders should help them have a clear understanding of faith in Jesus Christ, the process of repentance, and the purpose of life on earth. Leaders also should help them accept responsibility for their thoughts and actions and apply gospel principles in their lives. While opposing homosexual behavior, the Church reaches out to understanding and respect to individuals who are attracted to t…

Vive La Liberté

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s in 1798, Paris in 1968, and Athens in 2008 is an instructive one. It may help to explain the latest firebombing of the French Institute in Athens on Friday. The graffiti left by the youth who did it, written in French, makes it “Spark in Athens, fire in Paris. Insurrection is coming,” read one. “France, Greece, uprising everywhere,” read another. Now, in one way, European students may bear the marks of these memories, the violent legacy of activ…

‘Leaving is Never So Simple as Stepping Over a Line’ — A Conversation with the Author of ‘Rift,’ a New Memoir on Christian Patriarchy

By Audrey Clare Farley

…. This ignorance leaves girls vulnerable to abuse with nowhere to turn for help when something happens. Documented cases of mishandled sexual abuse within Christian patriarchy include Jamin Wight at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, Doug Phillips of Vision Forum, Bill Gothard of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, and Josh Duggar. The whole ideology of Quiverfull is that men are sexually driven aggressors and leaders. Women are submissive helper…

New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

…nge of individual perspectives and experiences trying to figure out how to help their kids. Ask a PFLAG parent and a religiously conservative parent, and they’d both say, “I love my child and I’m doing what I can to give them a good life,” with no objective information to show outcomes. Our findings are based on science. We know what kind of accepting or rejecting behaviors on the part of families correlate with better and worse health outcomes fo…