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Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”

By Mychal Copeland

…titutions. Those conversations are occurring in every tradition across the American religious spectrum. LGBTQI people do not stand outside of religious structures; both on campus and off, we are filling the pews, creating theology and liturgy, providing pastoral care, and leading religious organizations and congregations at a rate unparalleled in history. That narrative does not receive the publicity it deserves. 2) Hearing every voice at the tabl…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…ncient world, that contemplates the roots of the modern genre. These roots run deep in the world’s religious systems. I, and I hope my students, are often struck with how Christianity created a world of poisonous, deadly creatures with which to populate its mythology while other religious cultures managed to make their monsters creatures of wonder. So, for example, medieval Christianity imagined the dark places of the earth filled with dragons and…

An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage

By Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj

…a sham. We Muslims are already a deeply marginalized people in mainstream American culture. More than half of Americans have a negative view of us. One-third of Americans—that’s more than one hundred million people—want us to carry special IDs so that they can easily identify us as Muslim. We shouldn’t be perpetuating our marginalization by marginalizing others. Rejecting the right to same-sex marriage, but then expecting empathy for our communit…

American Family Association Targets Radio Hosts Over Association With Critic

By Warren Throckmorton

…. Earlier this week, Jim Stanley, program director of AFA’s radio network, American Family Radio, sent notices to two talk show hosts who are associated with Howse, informing them that continued presence on the AFA’s radio network was conditioned on severing ties with Howse. The talk show hosts, John Loeffler and Todd Friel, have shows aired by American Family Radio and also speak at Howse sponsored events. According to Tim Wildmon, president of t…

Christianity Today’s ‘Humble’ Hindu-to-Jesus Conversion Story is Still a Story of Christian Triumphalism

By Murali Balaji

…n I read Kamesh Sankaran’s “The Humbling of a Proud Hindu” in Christianity Today, which mixed a genuine spiritual journey with the idea that Christianity is superior to Hinduism. This sort of triumphalism among Christians—particularly converts—is nothing new, but it also hides the realities many Hindus living under Christian contexts face. For example, in southern India, where Sankaran (and my parents) hails from, many poor Hindus couldn’t receive…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

Today’s Times piece on the American Family Association frames AFA’s hosting of the Rick Perry prayer rally, The Response, as its assertion of itself as a player in presidential politics. But AFA founder Don Wildmon has long been a part of a group of religious right activists who hosted “policy briefings” to introduce GOP candidates to pastors; in 2008, the group zeroed in on Mike Huckabee, who was shunned by many GOP and conservative activists. W…

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…his father-in-law, the seminal thinker of the theocratic Christian Reconstructionist movement, R.J. Rushdoony. Assuming they were honest about their vision of a slow motion revolution in the hearts of men on the road to religious and political dominion—what they didn’t seem to anticipate is that they couldn’t control how others used their ideas. Once the Reconstructionists provided a biblical rationale for a Christian politics and the basis for a…

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…ith apparent sincerity, that this science is wrong and that his views are true. It’s not a lie if one has already convinced oneself of the truth of one’s stance. Intelligent Design Perhaps a different answer to this question of whether Christians can lie, more in the direction of duplicity, comes with the record of the Intelligent Design movement, an attempt to update creation science after the Supreme Court ruled in its 1987 Edwards decision that…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…old Tyler Clementi, 13-year-old Seth Walsh, and 19-year-old Raymond Chase. Today, it is very clear to me that profound sadness and stunned silence is no longer a suitable, appropriate, or adequate response. From Lamentation to Indignation My sadness began to change into something different with each successive news story about another gay teen hanging himself, shooting himself, or jumping off a bridge. As I saw the faces of these young victims and…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…llions of dollars to causes in Israel, the United States and Asia, Adelson—who has been there and done that—was nonetheless sufficiently emotional, when presented with a sculpture of Jerusalem, to wipe a tear from his eye. And speaking of tears, the best case scenario for Israeli news consumers: Adelson only spoke to American reporters so they had an alternative to the Jerusalem Post’s puff piece. Worst-case scenario? The Israeli press doesn’t dee…