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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…gives you a sense of appreciation about all the blessings we have. It’s still a family game in a way that is really hard to match. And to those who found his presence at an exhibition game distasteful or disrespectful in the face of the world’s grief, he responded, “The whole premise of terrorism is to try to disrupt people’s ordinary lives.” One of his proudest moments as president, he explained, was watching a defiant David Ortiz, one of the ma…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…ng women any access to it. The group then sang “I Am a Child of God,” a familiar LDS children’s song, before returning to nearby City Creek Park, where some participants watched the priesthood session as it streamed online. This was the first time the priesthood session was broadcast publicly. Previously, anyone who wanted to watch the session had to attend a private broadcast at an LDS meetinghouse. The decision to make the telecast of the sessio…

Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…racist”, and so on. It doesn’t help. There would need to be much more detailed information. (And still, you would probably sometimes have the absolute right to blame individual people for individual behavior, even if the institution as a whole might be trusted and might be just.) So maybe one way to think about this is that if we find ourselves blaming institutions, we’re already using a flawed set of psychological mechanisms, because institution…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ith entertainment. Ed said of his museum of diabolical objects, “most of the museum’s collection has been used for the diabolical with dire effects … leaving people maimed, insane, or dead. Some of these artifacts are still dangerous.” Yet he was still happy to sell tickets. The Warrens often justified horror movies and other forms of diabolical entertainment by claiming they help people to accept the reality of the devil. At any rate, the Warrens…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nce,” scheduled for April 21-25 in the South England Conference, and up until April 16, was listed as a speaker for the Youth program at the North England Conference camp meeting. Carducci was also disinvited from the “Holy Sexuality Conference” and the event was canceled. North England Conference’s camp meeting will continue, but without Michael Carducci in attendance. UK: Gay Muslims under pressure; Vicar praises drag queens; N. Ireland parties…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…. “Just take it,” I inwardly begged. As a journalist, I live and die by my phone, email and Twitter. I call sources, pursue leads, check the news, and schedule interviews. I don’t know how not to do this. Yet here I was at the Ananda Ashram in rural India, expecting (and craving) swift condemnation by the monks and nuns at the sight of an iPhone. I was on a university-sponsored trip to the subcontinent with other journalists, all of us covering po…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…which in 1996 breathlessly declared, with tongue only partially in cheek, “Airline Pilot Photographs an Angel!,” between a blurry “photo” and a pull quote informing readers that the “FAA launches top secret investigation into incident.” To those who dismiss any sort of faith in angels, they belong to a category that also includes ghosts and UFO abductions, clairvoyance and Sasquatch. There are reasons for such dismissals, of course. Many pop cultu…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…ce of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without any reference to the context in which Bonhoeffer coined the term. The Gestapo didn’t hang Dietrich Bonhoeffer in April 1945 because he had taken a stand for sexual abstinence (which he hadn’t). Heinrich Himmler ordered Bonhoeffer to be hanged for treason: for i…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…ions like Focus on the Family, National Association of Evangelicals, or Family Research Council. The days when a nice soundbite from Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, or Ted Haggard would suffice are over. If journalists and others want to understand the last 10 years of the religious right movement, they will need to pay attention to the theological, religious, and ethnic diversity among evangelicals, Pentecostals, and non-denominational churches. The…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…copal Church’s larger culture of inaction around sexual violence. See no evil, hear no evil… LGBTQ+ Episcopalians, and especially those who identify under the transgender and nonbinary umbrella, were far more likely than their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts to cite a fear that nothing would be done or that they’d be retaliated against as their top reasons not to report instances of sexual abuse to denominational authorities. Those fears a…