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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ornia. Do these websites actually shape people’s responses to deep theological questions? Can search results and search engine optimization influence the beliefs of an individual confronting a difficult question? It’s hard to tell. But as people go online for answers to religious questions, fundamentalist and fringe religious groups do have chances to dominate the search results and stake out authoritative-sounding positions, regardless of their i…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the process of adopting) as “prohibited immigrants.” Colombia: Trans political candidate profiled The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers profiles Tatiana Piñeros, a transgender woman who is running for the Senate. Chile: Presidential candidates address marriage equality Presidential candidates Alejandro Guillier and Sebastian Pinera, facing each other in the December 17 runoff election, had a debate in which Pinera “stood by his conservative calls…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…doctrines and principles that are held to be true by vast millions of American evangelicals.” When SGM was embroiled in a very different sort of scandal over allegations of coercive leadership by Mahaney—and his admitted blackmail of former SGM leader Larry Tomczak—evangelical responses were much the same. Mohler, describing Mahaney as a “visionary Christian leader,” insisted that there was “nothing disqualifying” in the allegations against him. D…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…the Immaculate Conception. Adele Brise’s apparition shares similar theological grounding to Bernadette’s: it is said to affirm an 1851 statement from the Bishops of the United States calling for schools in every parish. Like Bernadette, Adele was a good role model: a poor young woman whose apparitions turned her into a locally respected leader and founder of a school and convent. It’s hard to know whether Champion, Wisconsin will draw crowds with…

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins

By Johnny P. Flynn

…fact, Ray is accused of ignoring the pleas of those who wanted out; in one case an individual went out through the side of the sweat lodge to escape the heat. The prosecution played tapes of Ray before the sweat saying, “It’s not a question of whether you’re going to die. You are. The question is: How did you live?” But Ray’s counsel, Los Angeles attorney Luis Li, noted in his opening statements that all the participants signed waivers and were fr…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…S., replace our Constitution with Shari’ah law, and establish a North American Caliphate here. That was the entire point of the presentation, to make people aware of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (and all the little ikhwans, CAIR, MSA, ISNA, ICNA, etc.) activities and objectives. Anyone who wanted to turn my information into a broad-brush indictment of all American Muslims in the U.S. have their own agenda. O’Brien is a Texas Republican Party delegate…

Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…erkeley researchers highlights the continuing growth in the number of Americans who indicate no religious affiliation, with a full 20% now answering “none” when asked “What is your religious preference?” Michael Hout and Claude S. Fisher of UCB and Mark A. Chaves of Duke drew on data from the most recent General Social Survey (GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as religiously unaffi…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rested and abused here in Lebanon, too.” Anglican Communion: Archbishop of Canterbury calls special gathering to prevent schism over LGBT The Archbishop of Canterbury, in an effort to prevent the disintegration of the Anglican Communion over theological and cultural divides on teaching on sexuality, has called a special gathering of Communion primates in January 2016, including the leader of a conservative group in the U.S. that broke away from th…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…It’s because at some point the actually policy questions embedded in the ACA became symbolic of larger moral questions about government control of private life and who makes decisions about life and death. The same thing happened in the nineteenth century, says historian Robert Wiebe, when seemingly dry technical questions about currency and tariffs assumed an “eternal quality that set them apart as touchstones of public morality,” encapsulating…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years from Religion Dispatches on Vimeo….