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Tony Perkins: Atheists Can’t Be Chaplains

By Chris Stedman

…igious isn’t new—or especially surprising. The popular connotations of the word chaplain are clearly religious; more often than not, they are explicitly Christian. But if you look, for example, at Harvard University—where I work as one of two Humanist chaplains alongside Greg Epstein—you will find nearly 40 chaplains representing a plethora of religious and philosophical communities, from atheism/Humanism to Zoroastrianism. For many of the tradit…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…yful enough for them to deal with. Also, when I wrote my last book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, I knew my audience consisted of people who were suicidal or nearly so. That audience stayed with me, and I knew I couldn’t pull any punches with them. These are kids whom I consider my children, and they consider me their “auntie.” If they picked up a book, and they saw there was no sex in it or t…

The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”

By Jerry Faught

…r of Biblical Womanhood. Although Evans was told by her publisher that the word “vagina” would likely keep her books out of Lifeway’s stores, it is another word that better explains the ban: “fundamentalism.” The leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are, across the board, hidebound fundamentalists who try to pass themselves off as conservatives. Unlike genuine conservatives however, fundamentalists hold to specific dogmas and then seek to i…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…s into direct confrontation with those in power. Jesus not only spoke such words but he was such a word. He was predestined to challenge those in power and confront the powers, spiritual and human. This moment was inevitable. The disciples knew this confrontation was coming. The struggle against those in power that marked the life and death of Jesus was coming for them as well. The great illusion of followers of Jesus—especially those who imagine…

UK Christian Mag Argues for “Separate but Equal” Unions

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ven if DOMA were repealed and all the benefits were the same reserving one word for heterosexuals and another word for gays and lesbians continues to make the distinction that one is “better” and one is “less than” the other. If they truly are the same — if there is a difference with no distinction — then it’s all one thing: marriage. One other point made in this editorial brings that message home. There is no getting around it: the natural order…

Bishops vs. Nuns: Who Spoke for God in 2010?

By Eugene McMullan

…ps claim to have exclusive possession of the measuring stick of orthodoxy (Rule of Truth), nuns are less likely than bishops to make doctrinal statements. That being said, nuns are quite devout and typically orthodox. The US nuns are not “bad Catholics,” as the Vatican implied with its notorious apostolic inquiries. The real issue is their criticism of the bishops, and their commitment to the principles of Vatican II. In a letter regarding women’s…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…s in Jewish, Christian, and other faith traditions, contemporary Muslims struggle with (the word is jihad, by the way, but don’t take it the wrong way) their texts, key ideas, and heroes (and heroines). Omar is such a figure. Whereas Muslims long identified the worst ruler with Pharaoh—up to and including the most recent revolutions—Sunni Muslims identify Omar, and Shi’i Muslims ‘Ali’ (the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) as the ‘ideal,’ ‘most jus…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…ive title would you give the book? Incredibly, the title and subtitle are word for word what I suggested: Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman. My favorite word in that overly exuberant title is unprintable. That adjective, I think, is just right for Craddock, a figure whose writings and lectures were so often deemed unprintable. It also, of course, has the playful eff…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…ent can’t agree even amongst itself, how are women supposed to be able to trust that those 21 words will protect their access to contraception less drastic forms of ectopic pregnancy treatment? Would you be willing to bet your health and fertility on it, and sign away your rights in exchange for promises that the eventual implementation will still have the necessary exceptions? Do you trust the men (and a handful of women) of the Mississippi legis…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

…, that proportion is 42%. And when asked to give a one asked to give a one-word descriptor of Mormonism, the number of respondents offering a positive word like “good,” or “honest,” increased from 18% in 2011 to 24% in 2012. All of these gains were concentrated among Republicans voting for Romney, naturally. Still, the number one word survey participants associated with Mormons? “Cult.” And fully 27% of survey respondents still have no idea what…