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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…or slight, suburbanite women, but also big burly men. 7. The “Yoga Tax” In Washington D. C., yoga was newly subjected to a tax. Though the tax has been popularly referred to as the “yoga tax,” the Office of Tax and Revenue’s extension actually applies to any health club business, defined as “a fitness club, fitness center, or gym the purpose of which is physical exercise.” As a part of a larger movement across the country opposing government regul…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…ted to address “an audience that included many bishops” at a conference in Washington that spring. He told them with typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were cl…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…licals in particular, legacy media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have recently begun to improve on their longstanding pattern of printing softball takes that “portrayed what is an essentially authoritarian religious and political demographic in an unduly positive light, whitewashing the centrality of white supremacism and patriarchy in evangelicalism.” Such uncritical writing helps to normalize extremism, but, as the pers…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…tion, that argument became even stronger. On October 3, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine published a study with profound implications for policy making in the United States. According to Dr. Jeffery Peipert, the study’s lead author, abortion rates can be expected to decline significantly—perhaps up to 75 percent—when contraceptives are made available to women free of charge. Declaring himself “very surprised” at the resu…

LGBTQ Methodists on Whether the United Methodist Church Will Ever Affirm LGBTQ People

By Tris Mamone

…ethodists] understand our love and to be loving to them,” she wrote in the Washington Post, “despite the pain they caused us. The votes showed we didn’t reach them, or enough of them.” To many LGBTQ Methodists and ex-Methodists, the General Conference vote is par for the course considering the UMC’s history of division when it comes to social issues. “Part of this is because of our history,” says Methodist seminary student Rebecca. “We are a churc…

US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?

By Patricia Miller

…oversight on immigration was so glaring in light of the current debate in Washington that the bishops hastily arranged for Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, the head of the bishops’ migration committee, to remind the meeting about a letter the committee sent the Obama administration in September urging executive action on the immigration crisis. The bishops failed to elect Francis’ favorite bishop, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, to represent them at the…

Christian Voter Guide: Jesus is Wrong on the Issues and Wrong for America

By Daniel Schultz

…eferences below. 0% 0% 0% 100% 100% Founding Fathers: John Hancock, George Washington, John Adams, John Jay… 100% (A+) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Breaking down Jesus’ scores: Is a Christian who fears God;—Jesus isn’t afraid of God at all; in fact, he consistently refers to him as “my Father.” Also? Not a Christian. On other measures that Andrew rates, such abortion, homosexuality, and transgender individuals, Jesus has consistently refused to take…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…African Anglican Church because she married another woman in December. The Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports: South Africa’s Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth until recently practiced as a priest, isn’t ready to accept those with alternative sexualities as members of its clergy. Tutu-Van Furth was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and since the Episcopal Church, the U.S.-based branch of the Anglican Communion, accep…

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…nted for 60% of employment in 1979 accounted for only 46% by 2012; and the number of persons not in the labor force is growing. While some are getting richer, the numbers tell us, middle income earners are hobbled by shrinking purchasing power, disappearing job opportunities, and increasingly out-of-reach education. This is problem enough for the many who work hard and can’t figure out why they’re “losing ground,” as Pew wrote. Add to that fears o…

Want to End a Political Career? Be Nice to a Muslim

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based civil rights advocacy group. “That’s a very disturbing situation.” What’s disturbing is that other people of faith have not stepped up in defense of Islam for fear of being accused of “palling around with terrorists.” Certainly, there is a faction within Islam that is extreme and advocates violence and war in the name of Allah, just as there is a faction wi…