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Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

…inistration’s response—including stories on The Huffington Post and on the New Yorker blog. A couple of comments kept coming up. Repeatedly, people kept asking, “Why would you go to Harding if you’re gay?” Even alumni, though, would ask why these GLBT students chose to attend there, or why they couldn’t or wouldn’t leave? The question is unfair. So many factors—funding, family, a deep connection to the religious culture—could place a student at Ha…

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What’s Behind Trump’s “Impossibly Stupid” Roll Back of Contraception Mandate

…hat’s behind the new move, check out the language of the announcement: The new rules allow any employer or insurer to stop covering contraceptive services if they have religious beliefs or moral convictions against covering birth control. It would be up to states to determine how companies should make these decisions. In a statement, the agency said “these rules will not affect over 99.9% of the 165 million women in the United States.” Senior Heal…

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2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

…e power, to ban abortion and to punish anyone who fails to adhere to their rules—rules which are only being supported by a minority of Americans. The Right has shown previously that they are utterly pragmatic when it comes to choosing their new leader. If the base can’t be convinced by DeSantis, they will fall back into line behind Trump. Don’t let the spectacle of CPAC’s performative divisiveness fool you—the candidates present only a slightly di…

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Even Calling the Debate a ‘Shitshow’ Normalizes the Threat to Democracy

…lved into the evening’s theme. CNN’s Dana Bash used the colorful phrase on live TV. The Times’ Alex Burns used it on the paper’s daily podcast. “Shitshow” seemed to capture two things valuable to members of the press corps: a measure of fairness to the candidates, and the disapproval demanded by news consumers who are putting more and more pressure on elite reporters to speak truth to power. Reporters are trapped in an abusive relationship proport…

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The New Religious Left: A Marketing Dream or Political Reality?

…cle on the religious left published on the front page of last Sunday’s New York Times. I liked it. I disagree with nearly every point it makes. I mean this sincerely. Goodstein took the time to interview the major players and get the details right, something that’s unfortunately not as common as it should be in religion reporting. She included the voices of at least a few skeptics (including, full disclosure, me), and she listened carefully to the

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The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

…pecially when it comes to the lives of Mormon women, I feel that there is no one but us to witness ourselves—and no one to hear us. You hear us. It has meant stripping away a lot of the stories and half-truths and fearfully-lived constructs that have sort of kept me. Bringing back a more complex self to witness means bringing forth a more mature vision. A woman willing to be generous with her past is a woman who can be generous with herself….

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Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

…od and in the resurrection there will be no marriage. If we really want to live according to the new creation, marriage is part of the old creation that’s passing away. Do you think marriage equality is inevitable for gay people? Yes, because American culture values equality. So, how are you living out your new idea of accepting LGBT people into your own congregation, based on your study of Romans 14 and 15 that calls for acceptance of everyone ev…

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The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

…list of ways you were supposed to believe, behave, and become. It was constructs of truths built upon so many constructs of truths that real truth didn’t matter anymore. Wheaton continues to be a place where intellectual dishonesty is favored over difficult truths. Fundamentalist and conservative evangelical models of belief have more constants than pre-Galilean star charts and eventually I got kicked out for writing the wrong poetry. Twenty-odd y…

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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

…law in terms resonant of the fight against communism: Certainly, in these times when we are being threatened by a godless and anti-religious world movement we should correct this discrimination against certain ministers of the gospel who are carrying on such a courageous fight against this. Certainly this is not too much to do for these people who are caring for our spiritual welfare. In the very same year Congress added the words “under God” to…

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Are Republicans Going Soft on Gay Marriage?

…l conservatives. But their actions, whether viewed as “pro-gay” or simply “live and let live,” are nothing new for many conservatives who, over the years, have stood for individual rights. But “live and let live” isn’t a concept the rabidly religious right recognizes when it comes to gay and lesbian people. They may well be small-government Republicans—wishing the government would get out of their pocketbooks and stop trampling their individual ri…

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