Religion Dispatches
…on writes below, keep reading!, and don’t forget to sign up for RD’s daily newsletter—and to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. After three and one-half years at USC, Religion Dispatches is moving on! We’ve enjoyed hosting the website, and the Knight Program in Media and Religion has benefited from the collaboration. We’re very proud of the work we produced together, especially covering American Christianities, public theology and LGBTQI issues….
Read More
…rge, one of the Manhattan Declaration’s authors, and a George protégé, anti-equality activist Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation. Other signers from the U.S. include right-wing operative Richard Viguerie; NOM Chairman John Eastman; Larry Jacobs of the World Congress of Families; anti-marriage-equality strategist Frank Schubert; C-Fam’s Austin Ruse, who is fomenting anti-LGBT backlash at the United Nations; Howard Center founder Allan Carlson…
Read More
…outhat, only a woman, and more presentable.” So naturally, somehow, the out-of-touch folks at the Times sat down and decided to do exactly that, welcoming Tish Harrison Warren, a priest in the hardline Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), aboard as the author of a Times-subscriber-exclusive newsletter. Her opinion piece introducing the newsletter is focused on the notion that “we” need to start talking about God—as if America weren’t already s…
Read More
…ld transverse much of the state carrying pressurized natural gas. Williams Companies, a Tulsa, OK, company, and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners of Owensboro, KY—the companies that are developing the project—may be able to access the land via eminent domain, but the sisters have gathered petitions against such a prospect. They’ve also sung in protest against the pipeline, which they say will involve hydraulic fracking, a controversial process of extrac…
Read More
…hich will end abortion.” These strategies—again, a common refrain in church-sponsored anti-choice activism—are centered on spiritual warfare. TOPC says it is guided by 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (”We are guided by the Bible text from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, ”The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the…
Read More…the report: • The unintended pregnancy rate in the United States is high compared to other countries with comparable economies. • Women with unintended pregnancies are less likely to get early prenatal care and less likely to breastfeed. • Women with unintended pregnancies are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, more likely to experience domestic violence, and significantly more likely to give birth to babies with…
Read More
…of Herod. Jesus was often found in this temple (see, for example, Luke 2:40-49; Matthew 21:10-14). After the rejection and deaths of Jesus’s Apostles, there were no temples on the earth for many centuries. When the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored in the early 1800s, the Lord again commanded His people to build temples (see D&C 88:119; see also section 95). The earliest temples of the restored Church were built in Ohio, Illinois, and eventually…
Read More
…pment and Investment Authority, as well as Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites, and the Sudanese stock exchange. They’ve threatened to take down key websites in any African country in which LGBT people are subject to imprisonment or death for expressing their sexual orientation or gender identity publicly. Last week, they went a step further and posted a message on the website of Uganda’s Prime Minister, saying: LGBT People of Uganda,…
Read More
…rts, gender notwithstanding. In any case, the gays-are-rubber-Mark-Driscoll-is-glue approach to confronting Driscoll’s thug-like homophobia is hardly the same as a clear condemnation. And, I might add, while I personally find MMA, boxing, and wrestling in all its forms distasteful, I’m sure there’s little pastoral grace for either LBGTQ or straight kids who do enjoy these sports in highlighting them as ironically effeminate—even for the sake of po…
Read More…o make it so that we cannot make our case,” and that soon pastors will not feel free to preach the biblical definition of marriage and human sexuality. Jackson has big-name allies. Jackson lists Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the Latino evangelical leader who will give the benediction on the first night of the GOP convention, as one of his partners in the effort. Among those scheduled to take part in his summit in Orlando, which includes a training for pa…
Read More