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Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n. Even if I hate all of that, I can still love you, the person who is the agent of these forces of evil. It’s essential in trying to make real progress in these polarizing conflicts that we separate the people from the problem. We must find ways to express and show love for the enemy even as they espouse and perpetuate things that we think are not only wrong or evil but deeply damaging to ourselves and people that we love. If anti-LGBT people too…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s own religious police force, Isis is believed to have deployed undercover agents to entrap those who have been accused by others of being gay. Elmo, a doctor now working in a call centre in Beirut, fled his Isis-held town in Syria after a member of his family — a cousin attempting to curry favour with his new masters — betrayed him to the militants. Such betrayals are common. The attitude now if you are gay and trapped inside is ‘trust nobody’,”…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…ol over the matter. So when I had to introduce myself I just went with the numbers as the doctor had given them to me. I’m in that pre-diabetes state, and if I get a handle on it I can avoid progression to a worse state, or stroke or death or whatever. I took her seriously when she told me and I took measures to address it before I came to class, ordering my own books to return the ones I borrowed from the library. Actually getting some of those l…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…any you can be. Work on something called your “craft.” (Even the insurance agent has a craft.) Also, pay attention to the details of life. Use the fine china. Unplug and play with your kids. Take a “Sabbath” from email. And you, too, will learn how to be here. Rob Bell, for most of us, will be best known as the guy who declared hell doesn’t exist—and caught hell for it from his fellow evangelicals. The author of Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hel…

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…pring 2012, but eventually cut off negotiations. The diocese’s real estate agent accidentally forwarded the couple an e-mail in which a diocesan official said the church was no longer interested in a deal “because of the potentiality of gay marriages there.” The couple sued under the state’s anti-discrimination law, and Coakley weighed in on this point (emphasis mine): Our laws provide important protections for religious organizations and people…

A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

By Cristina Rosetti

…emselves Global Citizens.” “I believe that Brigham Young was a Rothschilds agent sent to assassinate the Smith family and gain control over the church. The Cabal have taken over every major religious institutions. The Book of Mormon warns against this, but modern day propehts [sic] don’t even talk about it, and also.cover up a lot of what Joseph Smith taught.” Wait, what? That last one is what initially piqued my interest in a new Mormon religion…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…ties. So it fits all around. It was “meant” to be. But every publisher and agent I sent the book to objected to the title: “too obscure,” “too off-putting,” “will scare readers away.” When I suggested to U of Del press “Jason Sham Too: Searching for God in the Sixties,” they instantly erased the title and went with the subtitle, no question, no argument, no permission. Sigh. After 12 years of failing to get a publisher, I was not about to argue. I…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…ck on the institutional power of the church led to great changes. Enormous numbers of people were “professional” religious. Luther urged them to stop trying to save their own souls: they should leave the monastery, go into the community and bake some bread, make some shoes, teach in a public school, build up the life of the community by serving the neighbor. Luther rejected the distinction between divine church and secular world, the world was as…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…) If you’re not Jeb Bush and have some energy, you could dress up as a TSA agent and, while snapping the gloves tight around the wrist, tell the neighbors it’s only a random screening; that if they’ve got nothing to hide, they’ve got nothing to be afraid of. Or drop in on Muslim Fun Day, get every single kid from your mosque to travel the sidewalks with you (hint: promise candy), and act as if they’re all yours. Remember: large numbers of Muslims…

Archbishop Retracts Videotaped Criticism of Fellow Bishops

By Frances Kissling

…e Archbishop can be seen calmly speculating that Barack Obama “could be an agent of death” if his support for abortion rights in the US is heeded in the developing world. Views like this barely raise an eyebrow in Rome or among American bishops. While few agree with the Archbishop, picking on politicians in support of anti-abortion politics is an acceptable political tactic. But, the bishop made a bigger error. He criticized other bishops. In an e…