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Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ithdraw”. Quoting the communiqué issued after the Primates’ Meeting in January last year, the Synod members write: “In 2016, the Primates of the Anglican Communion made it clear that, though they desired to walk together, the decision to permit same-sex marriages represented ‘a fundamental departure from the faith and teaching held by the majority of our Provinces’ and ‘further impair(s) our communion and create(s) a deeper mistrust between us. “‘…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places. Sometimes the illumination comes from bright souls gathered together to confront dark forces. Sometimes it’s the light of bonfires lit to root out (perceived) monsters. Sometimes the light beckons to us from outside the window, or at the end of a tunnel, showing us another world beyond, full of possibilities. The lights are at times alluring, and other times frightening,…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…of a NAO robot share a family tree. In an interview with RD earlier this year, Mary-Jane Rubenstein discussed how advances in physics are blurring the line between science and theology as physicists come to terms with cosmological concepts that were once the domain of theological speculation, like multiple universes. Something similar can be said of digital technology today: that, having left behind their religious roots, computers are raising iss…

What This All-Star Christian Movie Gets Wrong About Christianity

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…m or fantasy or documentary—that’s why criticisms about it being “preachy” are a little silly. It is, though, a movie pretty clearly intended to make Christians act a certain way toward the world they share with others. The deceit comes when “Do You Believe?” equates its version of Chicago with real-world Chicago, and by extension, the real world in general. “Do You Believe?” hopes that its Christian viewers will come away thinking things like: al…

Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…very little of which is used on behalf of poor people. On the other hand, Warren Throckmorton, the evangelical psychologist who has played such a significant role in raising awareness of the evangelical world’s use of myth and falsehood to spread homophobia, had last month taken the religious right groups to task for their “mostly unfortunate and unhelpful” responses to the the SPLC. He called Kaminer’s free speech argument a “distraction” but als…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…is moving toward a more welcoming attitude toward gay and lesbian people. Little by little, in this optimistic view, Mormons are overcoming their prejudices and misconceptions; or, as Brooks put it, “Movement is definitely happening.” Some pessimistic cautions are in order. First, the positions articulated in these most recent statements from the church are not all that new. October’s anti-bullying statement repeated a claim the church has bee…

Supernatural Drama ‘Evil’ Provides No Easy Answers to Questions of Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Evil

By Michael F. Pettinger

…m on 4chan is? The line between the human and the demonic is a fuzzy one, particularly in the case of Bouchard’s professional rival, Leland Townsend. His description of the eventual fate of a teenage boy he hopes to have tried and convicted as an adult is so monstrous and yet so utterly convincing that even hardened skeptics might ask whether possession isn’t a real possibility. Whether it’s the mysteries of technology or the inscrutable malice of…

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

…sca to Trump’s Scarpia and plunge a metaphorical dagger into his shriveled little heart in order to save America (we had just heard the LA Phil’s concert version of Puccini’s masterwork). My friend, who is Jewish, is someone who could not bring herself to read Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America because she found the idea of home-grown fascism too chilling. And now she’s talking about going underground, if need be, to resist DJT’s soft fascism?…

Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists

By Chrissy Stroop

…o highlight the extent to which evangelical and fundamentalist schools in particular, like the ones I attended as a child, perpetuate abuse, racism, misogyny, and anti-LGBTQ animus as they indoctrinate children in “alternative facts.” It was Vice President Mike Pence’s and David French’s defense of Second Lady Karen Pence’s return to one such anti-LGBTQ Christian school to work as an art teacher that inspired me to create the hashtag, which accumu…

4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…al for humor here? Because some people, when they talk about “healthy boundaries,” are talking about the knowledge that other people are not just extensions of oneself… and so maybe, for example, one’s adult daughter’s sexual history is not entirely one’s own business. (In fact, maybe one’s teenage daughter’s sexual behavior isn’t entirely one’s own business, at least not to the point of embarrassing her and her boyfriend by demanding they sign an…