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American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…ion of family values. Supporting Families and Personal Freedom at the Same Time Going forward, it might be difficult for FWI and related groups to sustain this strategy. Triggered by the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, opposition to criminalization among conservative elements of the religious right in the US has emerged. The most visible religious conservative figure to oppose criminalization is Rick Warren, pastor of California’…

Judy Shepard Takes on ADF: Stop “Exploiting Children In the Name of Hate”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…n its supposed pursuit of “bodily privacy” for its clients, ADF has proven time and time again that it is willing to literally expose trans youth—making their genitalia the subject of public discussion. The hate-group’s justification and historical precedent, as Shepard exposes, is paper-thin: [These are] the same strategies that were employed during segregation era—the strategy of selecting white people who “became ill” or “felt uncomfortable” sh…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…er of the internet in processing traumas: the internet’s ability to shrink time and space extends to the very way in which a group trauma is coped with. Compared to the massacre of 1984, when the community was forced to hide their trauma as a shameful secret, the Wisconsin tragedy points to the internet is becoming a space for dealing with trauma openly and with the support of other groups. Trauma involves an inability to speak about a terrible ex…

Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology

By Steve A. Wiggins

…actually many more; it’s easy to lose count. Professors lose jobs all the time, but these are special cases. Tenure was instituted in higher education to protect faculty from threats should they come to conclusions out of sync with their school. It used to be called academic freedom. These recent situations, however, have all resulted from statements or publications that have failed administrative approval on theological grounds. Some topics, it…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…g that he smelled because the city refused to provide showers. Most of the time, he says he just walked the long distance home rather than listen to the complaints. The mayor at the time refused to even listen to their complaints. After two workers were killed, crushed in the back of one of the trucks without safety switches, the non-unionized men went on strike. King had come to Memphis in support as part of his Poor People’s Campaign, a goal to…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…ty, in Judaism, and in what were then new “goddess” religions. Despite sometimes being seen as dated in her essentialism, Saiving is, and was, key to this and much much more. Womanspirit Rising was not the first time nor the last that the 1960 essay would be reprinted. It appeared again in a scholarly venue, the journal Pastoral Psychology, in 1966. And it has been repeatedly anthologized in the decades since, appearing in The Nature of Man in The…

Yes, Virginia: There IS a War on Christmas: Its Revolutionary Meaning is Inverted in the Winner-Take-All Era

By Peter Laarman

…miliating the poor. This as true in our time as it was in Charles Dickens’ time. But unlike the Victorians who read Dickens and pressed for reform, we appear incapable of becoming outraged about it. Our best journalists give us grim reports on the shocking injury rates in Amazon warehouses (but Jeff Bezos pays his workers $12.50—hooray!) along with bulletins about the latest insults to the most vulnerable: new work requirements for people receivin…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…ghpoint, but rather as members of a heretical and unchristian faith. For a number of reasons, including Mitt Romney’s presidential run in 2012, those impulses have been largely diminished. But evangelical worries about Mormonism remain. That Mormons have so thoroughly repudiated Donald Trump while American evangelicalism wrestles with its complicated relationship with him only elevates evangelical leaders’ concerns about the strength of their fait…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ion in “Google searches for churches,” yet more evidence of the increasing number of “nones,” or that “searches related to the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, church and prayer are all highly concentrated in the Bible Belt. They rise on Sunday everywhere.” Other patterns are more jarring: “Relative to the rest of the country, for every search I looked at, retirement communities search more about hell,” he writes. Each month, on average, 422 people in th…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tudies like this one, Phrenology’s back again in a new form, implying this time that the size of the brain is any indicator of human intelligence. We’ve all been told countless times that the human brain is a highly redundant organ, and that each of us uses only a fraction of it in normal circumstances. Given that established scientific truism, it would be passing strange if brain size bore any relation to intelligence. An extraordinary organ, the…