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Nevada Rejects Nihilism, California Rejects Euphoria, and Volatility Reigns

By Joanna Brooks

…s always expected to win). Romney also made robocalls in support of Meg in California. After the Proposition 8 victory in 2008, the conservative Mormon grapevine in California was abuzz with the idea that California’s small but highly disciplined 2-3% Mormon population could create an unbeatable ground operation and change the game in California. But it appears that neither Romney himself nor his LDS-style disciplined ground organization are game-…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…eek’s midterm elections. The victory of Proposition 47, for example, makes California the first state in the nation to “de-felonize” drug use. This sentencing-reduction measure won 60 percent of the vote and united a surprising array of supporters, including a conservative evangelical Christian billionaire whose advocacy for criminal justice reform attracted the attention of “some of his friends on the left.” Another story-behind-the-story is the…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

Several representatives of California tribes held a press conference Tuesday at Washington D.C.’s Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ to proclaim the opposition of more than 50 tribes to the canonization of Junipero Serra, which is set to take place just down the road on Wednesday afternoon. One speaker called the canonization mass that Pope Francis will conduct “a disastrous celebration of slavery and cultural termination.” [Read: Wh…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…remind me of child trafficking to perverts. Various researches show that children raised by the so-called families of gays or lesbians suffer from more negative social, economic and emotional consequences compared to the children raised by healthy biological families,” said Gražulis. A Russian-style “propaganda” law has also been moving through the legislature. …

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…t answer,” I hasten to add that viewers will learn it only after lengthy sequences about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations, a case for the U.S or Israel attacking Iran, and a pitch for the phone ministry 1-888-RAPTURE. Apparently the UFO issue got onto Lindsey’s radar screen because of reports that United Nations is paying attention to it, as discussed here. Lindsey offers a mass of evidence (quite disturbing if true) claiming sigh…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…s filed a class-action suit in the US District Court (Northern District of California), charging Quixtar and several of its high-level distributors with fraud and racketeering. According to a report at CaseWatch (“Your Guide to Health Fraud- and Quackery-Related Legal Matters”), the allegations of the complaint include: “Quixtar is an illegal pyramid scheme because most of its sales are to distributors rather than to retail customers.” “The defend…

Will California Outlaw Divorce?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…those heterosexually married folks could be headed for the 2012 ballot in California. Mercury News reports that “the 2012 California Marriage Protection Act has cleared a major legal milestone: Last week, the secretary of state’s office gave [John] Marcotte permission to start gathering signatures. To make the June 2012 ballot, he’ll need nearly 700,000 approved signatures by the spring of that year.” The 38-year-old Marcotte has said such a meas…

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

By Cody J. Sanders

…and dying within―such a disruption. The global pandemic of COVID-19 will challenge our potential for a Good Death in ways we haven’t imagined or prepared for. In a class I’m teaching at Chicago Theological Seminary called “A Practical Theology of the Corpse,” I asked my students to describe their notion of a Good Death in the 21st Century. They said the kinds of things you’d probably say, too, if you took a moment to think about the question: dyin…

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…

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….