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World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hange church policy, with the denomination’s numerical strength now in the south – both the southern U.S. and the global south: For decades, liberal Methodists have tried — and failed — to change church rules on homosexuality, and it may prove impossible again at this month’s General Conference. While American Methodists are diverse — both George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton are members — Methodists in Africa tend towards conservative views on sexu…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…had planned to travel to Nepal with a small Fair Trade NGO based in Laguna Beach, Calif., where I live, and was set to depart about 12 hours after the first earthquake hit on April 24. The NGO’s plans understandably changed, but after some prayerful contemplation of my own, I decided I still should go as an independent journalist. I understood my mission (in the spiritual and every other sense) to be simple: to be a witness, to do whatever I could…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…of commentators. Burns himself, the owner of the NOW television network in South Carolina and pastor of the Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina, has followed the trajectory of numerous prosperity gospel-ers and megachurch entrepreneurs, white and black, from a modest Baptist background to a history of religious entrepreneurial initiatives attracting scores away from historical denominational connections. Trump and Burns rep…

SCOTUS Refusal Again Favors Religious Claims… But This Time in Liberals’ Favor

By Patrick Hornbeck

…urt, was that the breakaway “Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina” must return close to half a billion dollars in properties to the Episcopal Church. The issue in the case was highly technical, centering on whether a denomination’s internal governance procedures can have the effect of creating a property trust even when the church procedures don’t satisfy the state’s usual requirements for forming a trust. For context, it’s…

Democratic Candidates Don’t Need to Get More Religious, They Just Need to Get Known

By Daniel Schultz

…usion on their own. Likewise, it would be easy to interpret Biden’s win in South Carolina as a ringing endorsement of faith outreach. After all, Biden announced back in December that he had been endorsed by over 100 pastors and other religious leaders in the Palmetto State, and he apparently reaped the reward, taking home 56% of primary voters who attend church once a week or more, and 46% of occasional attenders, both enough to win each category….

Why We Can’t Wait for a Majority to Grant Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r, would still be drinking from a different water fountain that me here in South Carolina.” The auditorium erupted in applause and the man backed away from the microphone. My point had been made, and continues to be made in new polling data from the Pew Research Center on interracial marriage. The good news is that nearly two-thirds of those polled say it would be fine “if a member of their own family were to marry someone outside their own racial…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…ng to the Washington Post. As Religion Dispatches has previously reported, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is seeking a waiver from the Trump administration to allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a social welfare agency that is a major player in the state’s foster care program, to discriminate against non-Christians such as Jews and Muslims. The Greenville News reports that a Jewish woman was turned away as a potential foster mentor for Miracle Hill…

What’s Huntsman’s Game Plan?

By Joanna Brooks

…lready heavy with recycled McCain personnel, and he’s quickly addding more South Carolina cred. South Carolina is also an open primary where he can draw in the independents he needs to win. 4. He’s betting this Tea Party thing will wear itself out by 2012. 5. He’d like you to think of him as stately like George Herbert Walker Bush but way cooler. In his ABC interview with George Stephanopolous, Huntsman drew comparisons between his own “proud trad…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…hristian Worldview”? It was at an event sponsored by the CEO Roundtable of South Carolina last month that DeMint proposed his litmus test for public school teachers. CEO doesn’t stand for chief executive officer—it stands for Christian Executive Organization, its president, Josh Kimbrell, told me in an interview shortly afterwards. Kimbrell, a banker by training who called DeMint “my dear friend,” said his organization was not a Tea Party group (a…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Brandon Reed, a MAGA politician who readily manipulates religion for political gain, sponsored the Arkansas law. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a hashtag. But not all schools are acquiescing to Reed’s C…