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Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…ve Federal financial assistance may use their facilities to provide social services without removing or altering religious art, icons, scriptures, or other symbols from these facilities. In addition, a faith-based organization that participates in a social service program may retain religious terms in its name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization’s mission statements and other charter…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…n that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.” It goes on to warn against denying the petition of anyone for sustenance or aid by claiming, for instance, that the petitioner deserves his fate: Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I… will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance… But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…(then the stake president) felt my moving away from Belmont would be a disservice to my sons because in the Belmont ward, they had role models for being good Mormon men. My gut told me differently: that if I kept them around Belmont, they would leave the Church because this group made them feel unusual. There were times when I would ask the congregation’s Boy Scout troop leader how my boys were doing, and he would say “pretty good, considering.”…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hristmas Eve service at my family’s Lutheran church was always my favorite service of the year. The candles, the carols, and the quiet reverence soothed my soul, even as I drove myself and my little sister across town to switch between our divorced parents’ homes at the stroke of midnight. These days, neither of us goes to church, and my mother’s Pagan practices feel like the closest reflection of my own knotted spiritual beliefs. And while I seek…

Ann Romney’s Big Night at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…s do: the acts of service performed for one another. Romney gave plenty of service as a lay pastoral leader for Boston-area congregations. But, as Ann Romney explained, “Mitt does not like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.” (Tagg Romney made a similar point earlier in the day about how Mormons are taught not to brag about acts of interpersonal service. This is an important way…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…olic Group Offers Pastoral Support to Transgender People The Catholic News Service reports that a “pro-life” ministry in the state of Kerala “has formed a group of priests, nuns and laypeople to respond to the pastoral needs of transgender people.” Formed in Cochin under the aegis of Pro-Life Support, a global social service movement within the church, the ministry is significant as it is one of the few outreach programs for the transgender commun…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…s. Cardinal Dolan is scheduled to preside at Saint Patrick’s Holy Thursday service this week. The feet of undocumented immigrants are battered by their flights from violence, poverty, and war. Right now, they are also ready to run from the possibility of deportation and the possibility of yet another separation from their families. Whose feet will Cardinal Dolan, so willing to pray over President Trump, choose to wash? When Jesus washed the feet o…

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…athy for women’s issues. But Romney’s outlook did mature over his years of service, according to the Post, and he may have assisted Boston-area Mormon feminists by deflecting Church headquarters’ inquiries into their activities. On Tuesday, Salon.com’s Justin Elliot selected the most unflattering elements of Romney’s career as bishop to depict the GOP presidential candidate as “an enforcer of the most socially conservative policies of the LDS chur…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…w York and Washington, D.C. Some of these organizations have continued the service in successive years. Duke Divinity School’s Office of Black Church Studies has officially sponsored the service titled “Seven Last Words: Strange Fruit Still Speaks” (a reference to the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” about Jim Crow lynchings in the South), and it is now a staple of the programmatic calendar. These venues give opportunities for black millennials…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…rican history indicates how powerful such pseudo-theological narratives in service of the state can be). Thus we observe that later exegetes and jurists began to make frequent exceptions to the injunction against committing aggression contained in Qur’an 2:190 and preferred to understand the verse as mandating primarily non-combatant immunity without placing any restriction on the Muslim army’s ability to commence fighting. This progressive wateri…