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The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…istian right speaking circuit by posturing as victims of religious intolerance. While HGTV did not announce the reasons for their show’s cancellation, it was clearly not, as the Benhams and their fans suggest, because the majority-Christian society cannot tolerate Christians. It wasn’t the Benhams’ faith, or even their belief that homosexual activity is sinful, that caused the controversy. It was their anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-Muslim rhetoric a…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…ntil Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, Hilal analyzes the narrative and political mechanisms that enable the War on Terror; its institutionalized Islamophobia as entrenched in the state’s laws and policies; and how Muslims internalize, reproduce, challenge, and live with these injustices. Alongside its domestic impact, Hilal examines the global scope of the War on Terror’s systemic imperial viole…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…ger carry his books, and Mars Hill cancelled their annual signature Resurgence Conference scheduled for October 2014. Driscoll continues to find himself persona non grata at events such as the the Act Like Men Conference. Driscoll’s “difficult season” escalated on August 3, 2014 when approximately 80 ex-members of Mars Hill protested Driscoll’s misogyny, ongoing plagiarism allegations, and abusive tactics, as well as the church’s overall lack of a…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…And the news media noticed, documenting the counter-event and taking the concerns of the conference’s mostly exvangelical critics seriously. The way the Wheaton summit was covered likely blindsided the conference organizers, who have been accustomed to controlling their media representation. Since then, exvangelical Twitter has continued to explore what was wrong with it, with Michelle Panchuk producing an important thread on why the “best practic…

OB/GYN Corrects Bishop’s False Claim About How Contraceptives Work

By Sarah Posner

…t share Catholics’ objection to contraception and sterilization, but most—including Colorado Christian—strongly oppose abortion, including abortifacient drugs.” In a December 2011 letter to President Obama, 61 religious leaders expressed their opposition to the then-proposed rule. That letter, whose signers were mostly Christian but included a couple of Orthodox Jewish leaders, read, in part, “It is emphatically not only Catholics who deeply objec…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…orean and foreign couples. The end of the world might be farther off than once expected, at least according to the Mayan calendar. From Qumran to dot-com: the Israel Antiques Authority and Google are working together to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them available to the public. Finally, did the Berenstain Bears become practicing Christians? *This post has been corrected. The church is located in Memphis, Michigan, not Memphis, Tennessee….

Sorry, National Review: “Religious Freedom” Bills Do Permit Bigotry

By Sunnivie Brydum

…response to Charlotte’s city council updating its nondiscrimination ordinance to include LGBT people. To be clear: in 30 states, it is expressly legal to fire someone because they are transgender. In 28 states, an employee could marry their same-sex spouse on Sunday, then be fired on Monday for putting a wedding photo on their desk. These aren’t hypothetical dilemmas—real people lose their livelihood every year because a supervisor didn’t approve…

Hijab and The City

By Joanna Brooks

…im women a sense of solidarity that I’ve never felt with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda (even in those moments when—truth be told—I’ve found myself coveting pieces of Carrie’s wardrobe). Maybe because it’s because so many of the women I love and respect most in this world are Mormons who choose to express their love for God in the way they dress, consciously choosing lives of modesty, even when those choices—and especially the devotional…

East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

…h may be illegal under the City of East Lansing’s non-discrimination ordinance and which, officials contended, violated the spirit of the farmers market. East Lansing officials repeatedly encouraged Country Mill Farms to “voluntarily elect not to attend the market” for the rest of the season. Country Mill Farms declined, and continued to staff its booth at the East Lansing Farmers Market. Between the end of the 2016 farmers market season and the b…

Misreading Neda and Judges 19: Death of Young Iranian Woman Is Not a Rallying Cry for War

By Charlotte Gordon

…ration. John Milton, for example, felt that the eleven tribes fought in righteous anger and that the English Puritans should follow their example. Most moderns, however, read this story as a parable against answering violence with violence. Obama should take note. The story of the concubine is meant to be a cautionary one, not a battle cry. The death of Neda should fill us with outrage. But our actions should be measured, not vengeful….