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Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…ponse. Congregations that do not have a strong social mission or disaster plan often flail in the wake of humanitarian disaster. Nevertheless, many faith communities play critical roles in responding to unmet needs during and after disasters. Faith-based organizations represent the overwhelming majority of members in national and state Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), associations that coordinate services across organizations. Fo…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the country’s Christian Democrats, has reportedly said she will fight the law. Latvia: Ruling Party Official Praises Nazi Killing of Gays, Says She Was ‘Upholding Christian Values’ Inga Priede, a member of the executive board of Latvia’s Unity Party resigned after posting a series of anti-gay tweets, including one that said “Thank God — at one time, the Germans shot them. It improves fertility.” After condemnation from other members of her party,…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…the Country.” The destruction and desecration of the mosques is part of a larger Chinese governmental effort to expunge Islam from China. It’s directed against the Uighurs, a largely Muslim Turkic group spread throughout Central and East Asia. More than 11 million Uighurs live in Xianjiang District of Western China, where officials have reportedly bulldozed over 800 mosques. Authorities have also detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in re-ed…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ften deliberately so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer uttered to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator. A preacher echoed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Baptists to an eternity of…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…on baptism became an important marker of Eastern Christian identity—particularly as increasingly numbers of Eastern Christians became the simultaneous targets of Western crusaders and Islamic conquerors. In this context, rigid adherence to liturgical customs became a means by which to assert and preserve identity in the face of colonization and oppression. Conversely, adherence to Christian practices abandoned by the Christian West—if not in the M…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…Lindsay Lohan under a conservatorship, and musician Courtney Love has similarly claimed in 2020 that Taylor tried to do the same thing with her following Kurt Cobain’s death. But Taylor’s “heart to help women” and conservatorships would not be contradictory in her mind. Taylor is an evangelical. Her husband, Rob Taylor, is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Brentwood in Tennessee. In addition to opposing marriage equality the church also believe…

New Poll: Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…– two markers that usually make for anti-marriage equality opinions. One glaring flaw is the diversity of the sample – 75 percent of the respondents were white, but the majority of those polled were women at 53 percent. While the numbers may seem surprising, in light of conservatives’ historically strong support for states’ rights on this issue perhaps they shouldn’t be. Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates like Texas Congressman Ron…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…ot alone. Hartford Seminary boasts the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, the country’s oldest center of its kind. A second imam training program is being launched by the once all-Christian Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; its website calls it “the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration in teaching, research, min…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…ce.” The bill then proceeds to define “discrimination” under Florida state law as a violation of “individual freedom.” This provision effectively gives any single white person veto power over the content of history curriculum in schools or trainings in the workplace. White discomfort governs historical truth. As I noted in October, this bill shares a common purpose with the raft of other CRT bills emerging in state legislatures across the country….

Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Rabbi Yehuda Levin knows how to get press – emulate Pat Robertson. Levin, the spokesman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, issued a press release today warning that lifting the military ban on gays and lesbians serving open in the military is equivalent to the “spiritual rape” of the military: When Americans are suffering economically and millions need jobs, it’s shocking that the Administration is focused on its ultra-liberal militantly homo…