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The Truth about Catholics and Condoms

By Jon O?Brien

…the use of condoms “always” takes place “within a context of immorality.” Kenya’s bishops also dug in their heels, declaring that the Pope was merely remarking “on something that may be true about the psychological state of those who use [condoms].” Their objection was similar to that of Leonard Paul Blair, bishop of Toledo, Ohio, who argued that the Pope was merely speaking about a “hypothetical situation” in his choice to focus on a male prosti…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…ways been treated as a special offering, not a part of the apportionment assigned every local church. As a denomination, there is increasing lip service to raising funds to combat HIV and AIDS, but in reality it remains a low priority among our bishops, pastors, and other church leaders. Thanks to a very dedicated core of United Methodists, however, we keep the issue alive and continue to attempt to prick at the conscience of United Methodists. We…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor requires promoting peace and justice in a world marred by genocidal violence.” …and the Evangelicals Brad Phillips, who heads the Virginia-based Persecution Project, now lives in Kenya, and simultaneously serves as the Sudan country director for Voice of the Martyrs, an evangelical agency that since 1967 has focused on helping Christians in restricted countries, emphasizing communis…

What Happens If the Bible Is the “Owner’s Manual For Life”

By Sarah Posner

…policy. This is the same Chris Smith, by the way, who recently traveled to Kenya to condemn that country’s recent decriminalization of abortion, after expending taxpayer resources demanding a USAID Inspector General investigation into whether the Obama administration had broken the law prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to lobby for or against abortion overseas. USAID had supported the passage of a new Kenyan constitution, which decrimin…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…r this month, I noted: ACT!, along with several conservative websites, has promoted the conspiracy theory that Obama has “quietly” appointed people with Brotherhood ties to top positions in his administration in order to orchestrate uprisings in the Muslim world. According to this theory, American leftists are in cahoots with the Brotherhood through a “consortium of left-wing organizations, Islamic groups, labor unions, and Obama-friendly corporat…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…the American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg blasts the authors because they: promote conspiracy theories; they demonize proponents of arms control, ecumenicalism, abortion rights and everyone else disliked by the Christian right; and they justify assassination as a political tool. Their anti-Jewishness is exceeded by their anti-Catholicism. Most basically, they reject the very idea of open, democratic debate. In the world of Left Behind, there exist…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…ill lead. Out of that grew intelligent design: the idea that if it looks designed, it is designed. That is until intelligent design was exposed in Dover as a vacuous concept masquerading as scientific theory. Now, it seems like we’re back to celebrating ignorance. “I Think.” The new creationist/intelligent design strategy has been to pressure states and school districts to water down the teaching of evolution until it’s virtually meaningless, and…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I am discouraged, but not surprised, that the mainstream media has so far failed to recognize the stomp-down amazing fact that we not only have the first African American president, but the first tribal president in American history. Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars through genealogists…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…n posed in a Christian video called ‘Transformations.’” Lampman continued: Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee is convinced that it can be. In 1988, he and his wife, Margaret, were ‘called by God to Kiambu,’ a notorious, violence-ridden suburb of Nairobi and a ‘ministry graveyard’ for churches for years. They began six months of fervent prayer and research. Muthee’s story was held up as a case study in the 1999 pseudo-documentary Transformations the first…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…ery for freedom’s cause. Hope is what led me here today—with a father from Kenya; a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. It is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. All of which sounds wonderful—and it is…