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Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…homa City, considering that the Mississippi bishops had been far more ambivalent during that state’s recent personhood battle. This could mean any number of things, of course: from the simple and unsurprising non-news that sometimes people with the same job disagree with each other; to the possibility that personhood legislation is an unsettled question for US Catholic bishops; to the question of whether the bishops’ national fight with the Obama…

Why We’ve Opened Our Doors for Polygamy USA

By Claude Cawley

…which renounced polygamy at the end of the 19th century, a number of independent groups have since broken from the Church over various doctrinal differences—including plural marriage. Polygamy, USA, which debuted on the National Geographic Channel earlier this month [Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT], follows the fundamentalist Mormons of Centennial Park, Arizona, population 1,500. The following commentary from Centennial Park spiritual leader Claude Caw…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…place just a day after legislators recognized LGBT Rights Day. From the Jerusalem Post: Bills proposed by Zionist Union and Meretz MKs allowing gay civil unions and same-sex couples to adopt, educating health professionals about gender identity and sexual orientation, prohibiting “conversion therapy” aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation, and giving samesex partners of an IDF soldier killed in action the benefits heterosexual widows or wi…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…d beyond, at least since the election of Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer as General Minister and President; and certainly since the publication of White Privilege – Let’s Talk, the UCC’s adult education curriculum on race. At the beginning of Lent in March, the church staked a banner on the church’s front lawn declaring that they were “Fasting from Whiteness.” It took a month for storm clouds to gather into a national smear campaign against the church d…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

“UFOs and the Bible—how do you believe in both?” That is the opening sentence in a story on CNN’s Belief Blog: “Can You Believe in Both Bigfoot and the Bible?” Apparently CNN’s people—its authors and most of the people who have commented on its article thus far—have not been not been channel-surfing enough. At least not in Tennessee. Just two weeks ago, on October 1, 2010, Hal Lindsey (author of the grand-daddy of all Left Behind books, The Late…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…Beast comments list) is enough to make it a plausible theory. A False Equivalence Anti-abortion propagandists have since backed away from the Mason smear campaign, perhaps because the facts don’t add up. Still, a correction has yet to be issued by any of the involved parties and the damage has been done. One Colorado Senator leapt to condemn the ugly tactics of intimidation by “opponents of Personhood.” And the president of NARAL Pro-Choice Americ…

Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…you take the bet as a preposition, “in,” and you get a simple declarative sentence familiar from the King James Version translation: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Full stop. What follows, “And the earth was without form, and void,” then describes the unformed, chaotic (tohu vabohu) earth that God just created from nothing. Taken this way, then, we imagine an absolute beginning, with God creating heaven and earth from not…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…s their spiritual state, and no one to lovingly care for their remains. Embalming emerged as a practice of corpse preservation that served a very practical need when the Victorian Good Death was disrupted by the carnage of war. The Good Death included a body―a body that could be cared for and buried by the deceased’s family. Embalming on the battlefield allowed 40,000 families (that could afford it) to have their loved one returned to them. How ou…

The No-Selfie Doctrine: A Theological New Year’s Resolution

By Richard Amesbury

…deeper truth in that direction, but my resolution for the coming year is simply to stop photobombing my occasional moments of transcendence. Call it the no-selfie doctrine….

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…d religious, despite the state being something of a poster child for the phenomenon. What follows is an excerpt from my book, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know, which presents reliable information about a variety of controversial issues such as this one. ### A recent Time magazine headline humorlessly stated in 2013 that “12 Percent of Americans Admit to Watching Porn Online, the Other 88 Percent Must Not Have Internet.” As the…