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Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

…to community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity, and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit. [emphasis in original] Dancing (dare I say flirting) along the bleeding edge of outrageousness, the 70 or…

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Sacred&Profane: On Sexual Diversity, Perversity, and Ecstasy

…istory about men pleasing men and women pleasing women (coming out of Mark Jordan’s work Invention of Sodomy; also present in Foucault’s history of sexuality; somehow connected to Ted Haggard too). The confusing history of the word sodomy, and its application by the church to describe a variety of behaviors, highlights the persistent difficulties posed by these sexual preferences, or “orientations” as we like to say today, within Christian communi…

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Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

…ally, “gets” evangelical culture. Bush’s Right to Rise PAC recently signed Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, as a senior advisor—a move the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody called “a big get” for courting the evangelical vote. While Sekulow has been at the forefront of the culture wars, the ACLJ is also one of several religious right legal firms who, for example, brought legal challenges to…

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Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

…p ISIS. McCain was raised in mainstream American culture, a fan of Michael Jordan, “The Simpsons”and Pizza Hut. He reverted to Islam, as he described it, in 2004. “I must say In sha Allah,”he wrote, using an Arabic phrase meaning “God willing,”“I will never look back.”He began publicly identifying with militant groups in 2010 and travelled to Syria to join ISIS in June 2014. He was killed by Syrian rebels two months later, carrying $800 and an Ame…

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Anti-Choice Activists to Use Planned Parenthood Vote as Campaign Issue

…ufficiently ideological pure. As the American Center for Law and Justice’s Jordan Sekulow noted in his Daily Caller piece, they are hoping to do damage to the Democratic base: “Although this continues to be an uphill battle, an unsuccessful vote that puts senators on the record helps get us closer to a Congress that has the political will to defund Planned Parenthood once and for all. Until then, our government will continue to fund one of the DNC…

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Where in the World is Sarah Palin?

…ave lyrical geographical names (like Mount Pisgah, Mount Tabor, Macedonia, Jordan and Jericho), she can still help him… maybe. But even among conservative Christians there are deep disagreements in this election—about the Bail Out, social policy, economic justice, the War. The two parties are now complex coalitions, not homogeneous monoliths. The more fractious coalition loses; this has been so for thirty years or more. The Republican coalition hi…

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Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

…the astrological reading of the Bible in Part I of the film owes a debt to Jordan Maxwell, who also has a voice-over in the film. Maxwell is a self-described “preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult/religious philosophy,” and has books, seminars, and videos on topics ranging from astro-theology to UFOs and the end times. Maxwell’s work blends strands of conspiracy theory with metaphysical esotericism. Beyond Maxwell’s…

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Who’s Scared of Polygamy? A Restrained Case for the “Slippery Slope” Argument

…ame-sex unions as far back as the 1970s, as work by Heather White and Mark Jordan has shown. Over the years the debate and activism by Christians continued to push the conversation until the national bodies of the UCC and Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) approved same-sex marriages in 2005 and 2015, respectively. The debate has been robust and increasingly supportive in other denominations. Some Evangelical Christians have even begun to embrace same-se…

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Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

…over their heads, how’s this?: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Bahrain. That’s 15 countries, including the most populous, Egypt. And while I’m not sure about The Sudan, there are of course strong restrictions around women’s dress in Saudi Arabia. That’s possibly 2 countries for the other side. (In fact, in the whole Muslim world, only two other coun…

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Heteronormativity: A Discussion

…t whipping boy” for a political left that is allergic to religion. As Mark Jordan puts it in the Introduction to his book, Blessing Same Sex Unions, “[t]he conviction is that there is a single thing, Christian Marriage, which is now being asked to accommodate this other single thing, Queer Relationship. Neither member of that duo is what it seems.” I was trying in my short piece to discern what the biblical texts say, why marriage is mentioned whe…

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