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Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…ad heard that there were plans to put me on the list of speakers. I bought tickets… then there was a mix up… and I was cut from the list, if I had indeed been on a list… but I had some Christians who expressed concern…. and then I read your article and I… decided it would be best for me to wait and see how things play themselves out. Howse asked if Beck’s apparent view that “we all pray to the same God” isn’t by definition false teaching. Cameron…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…ne Arabic numerals and zero. He devised an abacus, or counting board, that mimics the algorithms we use today for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. It has been called the first counting device in Europe to function digitally—even the first computer. In a chronology of computer history, Gerbert’s abacus is one of only four innovations mentioned between 3000 BC and the invention of the slide rule in 1622. Like a modern scientist, Ger…

My Value Voter ’rents go Obama

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on’t have to vote for anybody.” True, she doesn’t, but I hate to think she might not vote for Obama simply because he’s black. But, as devout Christians, I didn’t hear either of them talk about the faith of either McCain or Obama. Instead, I heard them talk about their shrinking monthly income thanks to smaller dividends from their investments and the rising cost of their healthcare and prescription costs. No mention of abortion or same-sex marria…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

With Mitt Romney tightening his grip on the GOP nomination, media coverage of Mormonism is splitting along familiar faultlines. Last week, the BBC aired an exposé by investigative reporter John Sweeney that dug into sensitive community issues like the shunning of former Mormons and esoteric elements of LDS temple ceremonies. Sweeney even managed to put high-ranking LDS Church leaders on the defensive on camera. Last weekend, at the worldwide LDS…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…urned away from the door of the historic Mormon Tabernacle with tears streaming down their cheeks. A few minutes before the session’s scheduled six o’clock start, maintenance crews parked a garbage truck between the line of waiting women and the Tabernacle door. “I thought it was strange to have a truck weaving in and out of the traffic on Temple Square during Conference,” said Ordain Women participant Heather Olsen Beal of Nacogdoches, Texas. W…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…of protest is to wear the niqab and nothing else. Then, the women will get tickets, not for being nude, but for being clothed. In my opinion, that would show the absolute absurdity of the state trying to control women’s dress. I have written elsewhere that this sort of action, of controlling a woman’s body, is simply male penis worship run amok. These ladies, who call themselves Niqabitches, have done a great service in showing the inherent contra…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s that the correlation between religion and happiness is amplified by economic misery, with “People living in nations or states with more difficult circumstances… substantially more likely to be religious.” In circumstances of prosperity and security, religiosity has a negligible impact on perceived happiness. That is, religion does seem to turn out to the opiate of the masses. But wait: Diener’s research also indicates that the dominant religious…

Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ice, where as many as 1,000 visitors are invited to meet him. I apparently missed the seminary class that taught pastors not to get “sidetracked in controversy.” Instead, my classes taught me that it was theologian Karl Barth that counseled pastors to use both the Bible and the newspaper in their preaching, but Osteen will have none of that. Anything that might get in the way of a happy story, or a story about how God wants you to be happy and be…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at Mr. Trump says he wants to wipe out. Mohammed left Mosul soon after Islamic State militants seized control of the city, when his sister warned him that their father had told the extremist group that he had a gay son. But Mohammed’s persecution had started much earlier. In 2009, when he was 18, his father, a former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, caught him during a sexual encounter with male friends. So began half a decade of torture and…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…dly incriminating emails, then you no longer have to deal with the overwhelming numbers that demonstrate the upward trending of the planet’s mean temperature, or the astonishing images of our melting polar ice caps. The federal deficit? Easily fixed. Our nation’s credit is inexhaustible, and once we reduce the federal government to a more reasonable size, businesses will prosper, and the deficits will disappear. Tax increases? Never. Obviously low…