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Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…oach is something of a departure for Boghossian, a philosophy professor at Portland State University whose first book was titled A Manual for Creating Atheists. Boghossian has openly referred to his attempts to “disabuse” people of their faith as “interventions,” which include some less than charming rituals. For example, Boghossian said in an interview that he regularly went out of his way to be served by a bank teller who wears a cross, so that…

Religion, Marriage, and Maine’s Tortured Soul

By Peter Montgomery

…tular head of the Yes on One campaign, working on loan from the diocese of Portland under the orders of the bishop. Back in April, when a trailer was released with footage of Mutty essentially admitting that he had betrayed his principles in the campaign (which had been “a fucking son of a bitch”), Mutty and the National Organization for Marriage went into damage control mode, suggesting that he had been misrepresented and taken out of context. Bu…

US Bishops Defund Immigrant Rights Group Over LGBT Equality

By Patricia Miller

…HIV/AIDS testing, pregnancy testing and counseling, and birth control. The Portland Archdiocese demanded that the listing be deleted since some Planned Parenthood affiliates provide abortions, which Street Roots refused to do. A report released last year by Faith in Public Life accused an “increasingly aggressive movement of Catholic culture warriors” of “[u]sing guilt by association and other tactics from the McCarthy-era playbook” to undermine t…

Gay Hating Christians Confronted by “Wall” of Gay Loving Christians at Gay Christian Conference

By Becky Garrison

…ttering of Westboro Baptist Church members journeyed from Topeka, Kanas to Portland to protest against the 11th annual Gay Christian Network Conference. While the majority of conference offerings focus on supporting full equality for gays and lesbians (trans issues were seldom addressed), they do offer a smattering of workshops designed to appeal to those they term “Side B Christians,” a phrase used to designate those Christians who do not support…

The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…fraught places; to his rise from bishop of Yakima, Wash., to archbishop of Portland, Ore., to cardinal-archbishop of Chicago. And about faith—his, and that of others. Patience was not one of the cardinal’s strong suits, a fact he was the first to admit. He didn’t suffer fools gladly, especially when they were members of his own flock who were, in his view, doing it wrong. “That’s one of the biggest difficulties. I get impatient at times,” he told…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…ion, anti-mask, and pro-homeschool views. Speakers included Paul Thomas, a Portland doctor who recently had his medical license revoked for endangering patients by refusing to vaccinate them; Andrew Wakefield, the originator of the debunked scientific article that claimed a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism; JP Sears, a new age comedian who has recently begun making videos mocking mask wearing and social distancing; and Margareta Gries…

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…tage or journey of self-discovery, as Thoreau had. Watching as inflation siphoned away nest eggs tucked into savings accounts in the 1970s led to a large-scale interest in investing in the tangible asset of land. The Nearings taught their acolytes how to invest in soil and get one acre to produce enough food to feed 30 families. Broad economic and social forces offer a partial explanation for why innovators and experimenters such as Thoreau, Borso…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…ir facilities to serve their neighbors and neighborhoods. From Seattle and Portland, Houston and Austin, to San Diego and Birmingham, Ala., Marion advises congregations about how their buildings can belong to the broader “parishes” that surround them. Writer and musician Jesse James DeConto, who works with churches in Durham, N.C., to host a monthly Beer & Hymns sing-along at a local brewery, recently talked to Marion about how churches can offer…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…y the church. At their 2016 quadrennial conference, Methodists gathered in Portland to consider whether gay and lesbian pastors should be ordained and whether same-sex couples should be able to marry in the church. By a narrow margin, the delegates voted to appoint a commission to study the issue, leaving the two open questions for another day. 60% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d…

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…