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New Atheism Produces Another Curiously Uncurious Science v. Religion Book

…clarity of scientific fact. Coyne doesn’t seem to consider that how people live their lives, and how people answer IRB-approved questions about intimate topics posed by complete strangers, aren’t entirely congruent. And he pretty much ignores ethnographic analysis of religious groups and the formation of faith. For someone who has written an entire book about the power of evidence, the omission of such a major field of inquiry is an enormous overs…

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Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

…not offer institutional welcome or affirmation to LGBT people who want to live full lives as LGBT people. It maintains that “homosexual behavior” is sinful. It does not create space for LGBT Mormons to attend church on Sunday with their partners, as I am able to do. But it does show institutional LDS movement on LGBT issues, most crucially—one hopes—for LDS LGBT young people who may have been brought up to despise themselves simply for having hom…

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Conservative Hardliners at Synod Prompt Question: “What Are We Doing Here?”

…rather than failures, because a great many people already do successfully live the Gospel’s good news about marriage,’ said the English-language group headed by Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto, warning against breeding a sense of ‘pastoral despair.’ However, one of the German bishops cautioned that holding the hard line on the communion teaching in the face of the realities faced by divorced couples makes people “doubt God.” Archbishop Heiner…

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55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

…ught it possible, and 14% were unsure. Which confirms what those of us who live within the culture know: many, many LDS people live in a parallel universe when it comes to the reality of LGBT experience. Just a few weeks ago, I was visiting with a friend who has a gay adult child. We discussed the nuances of the recent events surrounding Elder Boyd K. Packer’s abrasive and controversial October conference talk which asserted that God would never h…

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Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir

…could not help but make a connection between them: Weakland, like Kennedy, lived in the fishbowl of public scrutiny, and knew from experience both the pain of scandal and the solace of a religious tradition that includes repentance and forgiveness. Good Training for Being Pope Rembert Weakland, born in 1927, is a Benedictine monk, a retired Archbishop of Milwaukee, an accomplished musician, and a Catholic progressive who surveys his remarkable lif…

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Making Amends

…ing order of our complex roles in life. My friends know secrets about my struggle to live as a decent human being, which I have never made public, and yet are crucial to my ability to continue to participate in that struggle. I think of the quote from a novel I once read: sometimes you have to act like a hero in order to live as decent human being. Some of these friends I do not see regularly, since they are literally all around the planet. Howeve…

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NPR Gives Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly a Pass

…Commissioner at the EEOC, to show how opponents of Focus’ position want a world in which workers at county courthouses could be fired for refusing to validate same-sex marriages, or doctors could lose their license for refusing to “do in vitro fertilization for a lesbian couple.” Daly says, the underlying issue for all of us to consider is that this is going to be deeper than just two people who love each other getting married or having civil uni…

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

…pool—“a hot tub, three fireplaces and a library.” Maybe he could have Boston Cardinal and Francis ally Sean O’Malley over for the weekend. The Franciscan lives in a “rundown rectory” in Boston’s South End. I bet he would love the hot tub….

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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

…e rising Religious Right that he would keep the federal government from intruding on the lives and schools of ordinary evangelicals, a posture that has often been portrayed as a thinly-veiled attempt to cater to racist policies and institutions in the evangelical world. Even after Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 presidential election, Falwell Sr. did not stop his criticism of the former president. When the Lynchburg minister questioned the auth…

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