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Religious Exceptions Not So Exceptional According to New Study

By Patricia Miller

…most Catholic health care institutions have accepted the accommodation, a number of the nation’s 260 Catholic institutions of higher learning as well as Catholic nonprofits are seeking a broader exemption that would in effect bar their insurers from providing contraceptive coverage as specified under the accommodation designed by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a consolidated case challenging th…

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

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…s Smith’s belief in the importance of the doctrine, as well as the growing number of people initiated into the order. And though the prophet tried to stop the rumors from spreading, an increasing number of prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radical r…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…rning the end of the world.” In addition to Rapture Ready Wallpaper, and a number of ads for books (Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrewby Haim Shore), a very scary graphic novel (Armageddon Now: World War III), videos (“Rapture—End Times”), and dating aids (“Meet Christian Singles”—obviously something that should be done sooner than later), RaptureReady.com’s front page features a slew of bad-news articles with headlines that almost m…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…ify hate and violence. And while the coincidence of being born under the “Sign of the Beast” in Topeka 666 is still a little unnerving, there are differing opinions about the number’s translation. Some theologians suggest the number should really be 616, in which case, all eyes on Peoria, Illinois….

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…sted that their money be used to abort the fetuses of black women. When an Idaho clinic official awkwardly accepted such a donation, they publicized the tape of the conversation as proof of Planned Parenthood’s “racist agenda.” More broadly, although feminists and reproductive rights advocates have successfully changed population-control programs to prioritize women’s rights over demographic quotas enforced through abusive or coercive measures (as…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…than in the leadership? My congregation has been very supportive. A small number of people chose to leave. Some of them not because of their feelings around the issue of homosexuality, but they just struggled with the church being in the news. But that was a small number, and most folks have been very receptive. Many immediately began telling me about their family members, and all of their personal stories. My vulnerability in sharing let them op…

Time is on Our Side

By Amina Wadud

…ed to greater appreciation. This year, the 9th month of the lunar calendar falls when our days in the North are the longest. That means we have a long, long day for our appreciation of things and for remembering those less fortunate. When that 9th month falls in our winter months the fasting day is done by 4-4:30. At my age, I have seen the cycle through the full of the year, but I may not live to see it through the next full of the year, a soberi…

Eid ul-Isa Mubarak. Happy Hanukah. Merry Christmas. Khushiali Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. Happy Kwanzaa

By Hussein Rashid

…e importance of Hanukah for the American Jewish community, as it generally falls around the same time as Christmas and offers a visible alternative to the Christmas holiday. What happens to other religious faiths? Do we need to create our own Yuletide seasonal holidays? It’s a great question, and one I don’t want to deal with. It’s too hard. I want to talk about what I, as a Muslim, know about this season. As important a holiday as Christmas is, I…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…Sure. Defining of the practice and worldview? Not so much. Where the Book Falls Short My frustration with this book, however, isn’t that it doesn’t push deeply enough into issue of religion—that would be an unfair expectation; that book has yet to be written. Rather, my frustration is with the often deeply confusing phrasing and organization of what stuff is in here. Consider a sample paragraph: The contradictions of righteousness and impiety bec…