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Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…f you have to, start praying in your church as a group and refuse to leave. (Sitting on top of pillars was a favorite attention-getter for ancient saints trying to lead worldly people out of their stupor; so, actually, was celibacy.) But then come to mass, together with the whole community again in peace, to show you are not against the church but for it. We need it, and it is us. If we Catholics want to help make our church better reflect the hop…

Obama Recognizes Gay Dads

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of your country acknowledge not just your existence, but your humanity — your extreme normalness. If that makes the religious right feel alienated, it really shouldn’t. It simply means that we finally have a commander-in-chief who can acknowledge the reality of the American family and see the humanity of everyone, even if politics prevents him from fully enacting a fairer agenda. A belated Happy Father’s Day, Mr. President….

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

…from a fake news site. Not like Jon Stewart fake news. Or even Onion fake news. Actual fake news. “By the way,” Stetzer added, “if you are a pastor you should already know that no one can make you officiate anything. In fact, you can refuse to officiate an interracial marriage. You’d be an idiot and a racist, but you wouldn’t be arrested.” The other “story” Stetzer highlighted claimed “a sodomite ex-con turned author, Bradley La Shawn Fowler” sue…

Obama’s “Phony Religion” is Environmentalism, Santorum Explains

By Julie Ingersoll

…nvironmentalism (that they call pantheism) was one of Vision Forums key “accomplishments” in 2010 here and 2011 here. According to Vision Forum’s year-end report, “Without a proper understanding of the biblical doctrine of creation, man, the animal kingdom, dominion and sovereignty, our children may well fall prey to the vision-destroying false worship and spirit of the age—environmental pantheism. Environmental pantheism is a direct attack on th…

All Ducked Up: Reality TV, Not So Real

By Sarah Posner

…gina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus.” Although his anti-gay comments have drawn much of the attention, there were several other doozies in the interview, particularly on race: I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re s…

Nightly News Turns to Bishops About Contraception More Often Than Docs

By Patricia Miller

…atton and colleagues from the University of Michigan looked at the nightly news broadcasts of the three major networks for any mention of contraception in stories between January 2010 and July 2014. There were 113 segments on contraception during that period. Not surprisingly, the two most featured topics were contraceptive coverage and access, as the period covered the debate about including no-cost contraception in the Affordable Care Act. Gover…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…may be the product of police interrogation. It goes without saying that these are tragic cases, though it will be even more tragic if—in our rush to slake the American appetite for horror—we once again beat the drums of Satanic Panic instead of asking harder questions about why these murders happened. Assuming these teenage murderers were not following prescribed rituals for human sacrifice or in contact with networks of criminal Satanists, why w…

Churches Don’t Feed People, People Feed People

By Brie Loskota

…r the burden of the social safety net. Since then, the Bush Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and the Obama Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, have continued to push the rhetoric that faith groups are part of the solution to our social issues—from disaster response to feeding the hungry. And this of course is true—congregations of every size, shape, location and theological persuasion have programs that enable them…

As Trial Approaches, Accused in IHOP Murder Case Challenges Evidence

By Sarah Posner

…d her of narcissism, shunned her, forced her to sleep on the couch, and “ex-communicated” her. According to other sources, Deaton did not visit these sorts of abuses only on his wife, but on other members of his community as well. According to this piece in Rolling Stone, Deaton was inspired by IHOP’s apocalyptic teachings but crafted his own theological twists and cult-like following. IHOPU, the unaccredited university arm of IHOP, claimed shortl…

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…rities to make determinations between “good” and “bad” religion. In ISIS’s books, al-Nusra once occupied the position of good Muslim, was reclassified as bad Muslim, and, as of this writing, appears to be back in the “good” Muslim column as the two fronts join forces against Assad and the US-led airstrikes. A related set of dynamics bedevils American efforts to identify and support “religious moderates” in Syria. Prioritizing religious freedom in…