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NPR “Ex-Gay” Report Neither “Fair” Nor “Balanced”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…en allowed to instill such deep shame, humiliation, and self-hatred within the hearts and minds of so many of its followers. That sin is further exacerbated when religion is used as a tool to try to “cure” the shame it created. The shame should lie not with gay and lesbian people, but with a church, and an “ex-gay” industry peopled by professional “ex-gays,” that continues to repeat the lie no matter how many lives are ruined by it. Shame on NPR f…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…o the clerk to get back my ID card and the ultimate prize: a plastic block with a number on it. I was then permitted to sit in a chair—but not look at any manuscripts, yet. Juste sat down beside me. “What you will see here,” he whispered, “is the earliest Latin manuscript to contain Arabic words. The earliest proof of the transmission of Arabic science to the West. Now I will order the manuscript.” He filled out a form and took it to another des…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…ic movement which seemed to take on a life of its own. I suppose all bands with a following do implicate their followers. And perhaps the Dead have presented the longest-standing, oddest, and most enriching alternative to more conventional ways of nurturing an audience. In the midst of confusing times, when the powers will have their way and get their revenge, when the rich retreat to their empty homes, “the kids they dance, they shake their bones…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…rise like this—especially one that only serves to dumb down science education in the state. It’s a sad comment on our times that states are so desperate for jobs that they will align with an enterprise like this that elevates a blind adherence to biblical literalism over accepted science.”…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…Barton says, “if you do not see the divine hand working behind the scenes with what’s going on in history, history will be an incomprehensible enigma.” He then describes contemporary secular history as an intentional effort by the likes of Robert Ingersoll (no known relation), the American Liberal Union, and professional historians such as Charles and Mary Beard, to re-write American history without God. For Rushdoony, Barton, and apparently Huck…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…erhaps because reality has turned bloody, for good. Pathetically, the left-wing radical magazine that once mocked left-wing radicals—as well as everyone else—has turned somewhat sour. It only seems to sell papers when it insults Muslims and plays with the lives of anonymous people (as well as its own reporters’). In today’s Le Monde, Charb, the director of Charlie Hebdo, declared: “It may sound pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ation and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that he was there to see if he could talk his way in. By then a torrent of rain had descended on the Times Union Center and I had no choice but to hang out in front until it stopped. That’s whe…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…ons about the dangers of social media are fairly astute, even if they do reflect a growing fatigue. He recognizes that social networking can offer new forms of relationships, but he cautions that networking also raises new questions about morals and “authenticity,” an issue of particular concern for Benedict that resurfaces in several messages, where he urges youth to “not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial public profile for on…

McChurch Picks Up Progressive Endorsements

By Katie Meier

…ine is an event co-sponsor—no small potatoes considering the mainstream cachet of Jim Wallis, the founder /editor of Sojourners and author of the chart burner, God’s Politics. And McLaren has friends outside the faith box too. The Sierra Club is signed up. You tell me the last time people paid for tickets to a preacher-meets-politico-meets-tree-hugger event. Observing, then, the McLaren-brand machine gurgling and chirping right along, a fair quest…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…nd bioterrorism to get their way. When all such efforts failed, the masses fled and the leaders faced imprisonment. With the aborted venture in disarray and looming charges of immigration fraud, Rajneesh made a plea bargain to leave the US. To this day, uncertainty shrouds the Oregon venture: What did Rajneesh know and what did his inner circle conspire secretly in his name? Rajneesh returned to the Pune center in 1987 and later renamed himself “O…