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Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…hroughout Latin America, starting in Peru in 2015, on how to conduct political campaigns…. “Yes, I can’t deny that we are asking Evangelicals in Mexico to rise up and become very engaged and to defend Biblical truth and religious liberty to stand up for family and faith,” [Rodriguez] told Reuters. Uruguay: Progressive Advances Fueled by Intersectional Organizing The Guardian on August 1 published a look political organizing in Uruguay, the “tiny c…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…2001 to 2006. Douglas McArthur McCain At 33 years old, Douglas McArthur McCain became the first American killed while fighting for the jihadist group ISIS. McCain was raised in mainstream American culture, a fan of Michael Jordan, “The Simpsons”and Pizza Hut. He reverted to Islam, as he described it, in 2004. “I must say In sha Allah,”he wrote, using an Arabic phrase meaning “God willing,”“I will never look back.”He began publicly identifying wit…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…es would talk to me and let me do interviews. There were times when I made phone calls to inmates’ family members to let then know that visiting times had changed, to save them a long trip to the prison. I also visited the families of inmates with pastors and other volunteers to bring food, sometimes a gift a child’s dad had made. I basically become part of the lives of the people whose lives I wanted to document. How did a project you undertook f…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…anymore.” I relate to this very personally, and I think many young evangelicals can tell similar stories. Was writing this book cathartic for you? It was cathartic to give language to this experience and to explore the history of how exactly evangelical culture became about boundaries and scarcity rather than diversity and abundance. I grew up in a wonderful non-religious immigrant home in a white Chicago suburb. Because of my ethnicity, I encount…

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…any political group, and we are asking people to have no signage for political causes. In this Pride Parade contingent, we are not taking a stand either way on marriage equality. Our signs are quotes from LDS Church General Authorities, the Bible, and LDS hymns about loving your neighbor. You once had some concern about how the LGBT community would respond. What preparations have you been making? We initially entered the parade as the LDS Toleranc…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…e the trip from the Midwest to the west coast to protests to at Comicon in San Diego where they were met with a mocking counter-demonstration. At issue is the right of families of the deceased to mourn in private against what is clearly political speech—although legal efforts to stop the church’s protests were not raised when the target was gays but only now the target is the families of soldiers. Of course, if you watch South Park (or if you are…

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…ar, was doing next to me. We were all a part of this mighty river, rushing round and around the Ka’abah, the House of God. Nothing else mattered—well, except the roommate. We stayed linked at the arm until we hit the corner with the black stone. In order for me to wave, I had to get my arm out of her left arm link. I was conscious then not to get separated. But we managed the pause, the wave and kiss; and with each circuit, we got closer. Not surp…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…er. I mean, I spent 45 minutes phone-banking the parking garage of a lowly San Diego field office with four children under nine years old hopped up on Doritos and doing laps around my folding chair, and even under those suboptimal circumstances I could tell right away that Obama’s data was even better than it was in 2008 and that there was hardcore focus on the 18- to 29-year-old set. And, mind you, I’m no professional. Which is why I must take is…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…ome congregations.” This summer, Mormons are organizing to walk in eight additional Pride parades in Seattle, Portland, Boise, Cleveland, San Diego, Washington, D.C., and New York City. ….

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…d Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of Republican presidential candidates and elected officials issued tweets that, many have argued ad nauseum, demonstrated a commitment to public piety instead of public policy as a response to the massacre. In a rare moment, news and social media outlets in the U.S. became a forum for a surprising debate about spiritual disciplines—the meaning and import of prayer. L…