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Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…cile the claims (and cultural narratives) of faith and those of their surrounding communities in any age. In that sense, when Kirk Cameron or the Jesus Ween proponents offer constructive proposals for what to make of the holiday, they’re only the latest examples of a venerable Christian tradition. Indeed, so much of the work of faith is the process of trying to do just that. In this case, what is it about evil and death, and perhaps the temptation…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…have an impact on the ability of senior couples to serve missions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFI5J-W7Wc Science of morality… immoral In 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman went on a killing spree at the University of Texas. In a suicide note left behind, Whitman asked that an autopsy be conducted on his body as he was convinced that something biological accounted for his actions. The autopsy found a tumor on his brain that was suspected of pr…

Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…song as he imagines Newton first heard it—all feeling, no words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknMdAlVN4I#t=4m48s The only problem with the moving backstory that inspired this evocative rendition is that is probably not true. The melody now known and beloved as “Amazing Grace” joined Newton’s verses decades after he composed them. Without a doubt, many spirituals do have their melodic roots in pre-Christian traditions the enslaved brought wit…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…hannon. Deadshow, Deadhead. Dominquez Hills, 1990. Photo by ChasM3/https://www.flickr.com/photos/chasm3/ “Sugar Magnolia,” however, still presents a challenge. Written by Robert Hunter and the band’s rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, its lyrics would raise the hackles of even the mildest of feminists. The subject of the song not only takes the wheel for a stoned driver but “pays my ticket when I speed.” “She don’t come and I won’t follow,” even while she…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…t the mosques, the standard stuff—the stories that kept coming up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJQr1Go9ldw&t=2s You work as an actor, a writer, a comedian, in a lot of creative spaces. What’s the line between free speech and bigotry? Wow. What is the line between free speech and bigotry? Look, there’s always going to be free speech, and it’s a fundamental right. We are allowed to speak our minds. But bigotry will always exist—there will always…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hat a February report from the International Federation for Human Rights found that under laws that criminalize homosexuality, “threats to people identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex activists had risen sharply since 2010.” Nkom is challenging the law’s constitutionality. “I need everyone because right now, I am a little isolated,” said Nkom, who founded the Association for the Defence of Homosexuals (ADEFHO) in 2003. “It…

Did Mark Driscoll Plagiarize the Wrong Person?

By Rob Shryock

…iarism appears—completely raw, still including the header “From: Justin Holcomb.” Holcomb, who works for pastoral research assistance company Docent Research, included the section in question in his memo without any indication that the words were not his. [see UPDATE above—eds] When the “battle plan” became a “study guide” for Driscoll’s sermon series whoever designed the guide (Driscoll takes the credit, but that doesn’t mean it’s him) simply cop…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…granted (the traditional Christian understanding of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as Satan, for example) are rejected by others. They took the Bible seriously as an important historical source without assuming it was historically accurate, and they discussed its ethical materials without presenting them as authoritative for the students. They also acknowledged the existence and importance of competing religious beliefs regarding the Bible and…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…ther real or mythical—Paleolithic tundras; pre-industrial villages; the Garden of Eden. But re-creating the past often requires a whole new round of human ingenuity and manipulation. The de-extinction of mammoths would involve tools like PCRs and CRISPRs, as well as hyper-specialized techniques like epigenome reconstruction via the analysis of deaminated cytosine bases (how quaint!). In short, de-extinction, like extinction, would be a display of…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

…ant point to keep in mind regarding Fadlallah’s supposed role as spiritual guide: both parties denied that he was the guide for Hezbollah, but he was the admitted spiritual guide of Prime Minister Maliki’s Dawa Party in Iraq. I think that Sarah Bailey at Get Religion, asks one of the most interesting questions about this affair, when she writes “My guess is that Nasr would not have been fired if she had tweeted something negative about the ayatoll…