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New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the longitudinal study of same-sex parents conducted by Nanette Gartrell, M.D., who, according to her bio, “is a 2012 Williams Institute Visiting Distinguished Scholar, UCLA School of Law, and she has a guest appointment at the University of Amsterdam. She was previously on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.” Oh, and she has a female spouse, Academy Award-nominated ﬁlmmaker Dee Mosbacher, M.D., P…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…rgue, therefore, that the lack of alignment between the priorities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Francis wasn’t a willful rejection of the pope’s agenda, but more of a wait-and-see attitude of exactly what that agenda was and how it could be implemented in concrete detail. But the jig is up. Its been nearly three years. The pope has clearly laid out his priorities, first in Laudato si and then during his recent trip to the U.S. Bu…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…gender among white Protestants by looking at Southern Baptists and Methodists. By examining the emergent Southern Holiness movement, I was able to see how changes in theology altered—often radically—the ways in which personal identity were perceived. Examining these changes, both in theology and gender construction, thus demonstrated how important faith commitments are to how the faithful view the world. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Hol…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e religious pollsters, like Lifeway, have found that 50% of those who identified “born-again, evangelical or fundamentalist Christian,” believe legal support for such unions is inevitable. Overall, 64% of those asked said same-sex marriage would become legal across the U.S. By the way, not everyone in Atlanta was pleased that it was mainly gays and lesbians who spearheaded the rehabbing craze in their city; afterward, however, they seemed quite ha…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…ts, and tied to autumnal celebrations and activities that would include ghost stories, harvesting rituals, and dressing up in costumes. By the early decades of the twentieth century, so these accounts claim, the holiday became primarily child’s play, and a secular, fun-filled, consumer-oriented, neighborly celebration where the dead were no longer “really” present and potentially dangerous to the living, but rather part of a “pretend” world imagin…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…only by family and friends, but also by countless students across the world. Students revered him for his fiercely confident, direct, and demanding guidance at his Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune and far beyond. Iyengar’s widespread influence can be attributed to his success in constructing and disseminating what is known as “Iyengar Yoga,” an idiosyncratic rendition of modern postural yoga, a complex and contested collection of s…

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…s the “least restrictive means” of achieving a compelling government interest. The challenge for states that outlaw abortion is that they typically allow exceptions in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormalities, and medical emergencies. When secular exceptions exist, Supreme Court precedent (established, notably, by Republican Justices) generally compels states to also permit religious exceptions. After all, a religiously motivated abortion doesn’…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…one so in part by capturing the largest share of evangelical voters in the state. Trump nearly doubled Cruz’s share of evangelicals in the Alabama primary, winning 43 percent to Cruz’s 22 percent. (Trump has no doubt benefitted from a divided field. Should the race boil down to a Trump-Cruz faceoff, Cruz would likely win the evangelical vote.) While there’s a lot more to understand still about evangelical support for Trump, there’s no doubt it has…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…Above all, now that we’ve lived through the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, it’s fascinating to revisit my 12-year-old warning about how Robertson shaped his listeners’ imaginations and expectations to make such a thing more likely. At the time I wrote, it wasn’t clear what proportion of his imagined scenarios about end-times were best understood as a sort of imaginative wish-fulfillment—like Hollywood entertainment or twisted dream-wo…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…aveling outside of the Vatican walls for fear of reprisals and perhaps arrest. The reality is, it is going to be secular authorities that will drag this church kicking and screaming into the 21st century—and perhaps to justice. The language that the Church is using to defend the hierarchy (saying the Pope is the “leader in purification, reform and renewal that the church so very much needs” or, “the Pope’s letter to Irish Catholics was courageous”…