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Satanic Temple’s IRS Recognition Rekindles Fierce Debate Over What Is ‘Really Real’ Church

By Joseph Laycock

…de of police raids and legal battles, the abbey was legally declared a sex club and not a religious institution and Lamers was made to pay ten million guilders in back taxes. This episode may have galvanized LaVey’s position on seeking tax exemption. TST initially shared CoS’s position that all churches should be taxed, starting with Satanic churches. However, several factors caused TST to reassess this idea. In 2017 President Trump announced at a…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…ension actually applies to any health club business, defined as “a fitness club, fitness center, or gym the purpose of which is physical exercise.” As a part of a larger movement across the country opposing government regulation of yoga, some D. C. yoga advocates opposed the new tax, arguing that the goal of yoga cannot be reduced to mere physical exercise. Yet lawmakers insisted that the 5.75 percent sales tax extension did indeed apply to yoga….

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Orlando and in Charleston have anything in common it’s that both the dance club and the church were thought to be “safe space.” The horrors that unfolded in both places tell us that no place is truly safe—but marginalized communities will still gather and claim sacred space for themselves, no matter the risk. This spirit of risk—to be able to be both authentic and remain hospitable to strangers—is the message queer people bring to the wider church…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…cooked with other sloth steaks, and served to the members of the Explorers Club for their annual banquet. It would have been a hearty meal. Megatherium sloths could grow to weigh more than four tons. They roamed South America, eating plants (and possibly some meat), until they went extinct some 10,000 years ago. Fortunately for adventurous eaters, ice makes a good preservative, even across millennia. The Peabody Museum has its specimen thanks to o…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of it more as a recovery group and less as a country club. In that country club model there’s some security. Everybody knows what their role is and there’s rules and if you play by them everything is fine and you don’t really have to bring your baggage to the table you can leave it behind. I don’t think it’s a sustainable security or that it’s really the church. Especially as religion in America changes and the demographics are changing and people…

Pat Robertson Warns Yoga Will Have You Speaking Hindu

By Andrea R. Jain

…the United States. And, in a 2007 episode of his popular program, The 700 Club, Robertson homed in on yoga, describing some aspects as “really spooky.” Robertson has taken his yogaphobia to a whole new level in a recent 700 Club episode in response to the following question from one of the show’s viewers: My family recently moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico because of my husband’s work. There are a lot of people interested in New Age spirituality in…

The GOP Primary Capsule, Countown Four Days to the Rapture

By Sarah Posner

…, though, that Gingrich might meet the same kiss of death as Huckabee: the Club for Growth is none too pleased with his spend-y ways. (At Tiffany’s, too.) Perhaps Gingrich won’t call them the “Club for Greed” as Huckabee did, but still. You read it here: the Ryan criticism and his long record of spending: kiss of death. More than the three wives. Mitt Romney raised $10 million in one day. Michele Bachmann thinks that because the Constitution doesn…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…described the injuries he sustained on July 11, 2010 at the Kyadondo Rugby Club in Kampala, Uganda. He and his friends had gone to the club to watch the World Cup final between Holland and Spain. Then an al-Shabaab cell launched the organization’s first terrorist attack outside of Somalia. Two blasts were set off, one in front of the screen where the match was being broadcast. Ndugwa and his friends felt the blasts. Injured, but not mortally so, t…

Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story

By Joseph Laycock

…is closer to 300, the ceremony was moved off campus. The Cultural Studies Club offered to rent The Middle East, a nearby nightclub that has featured burlesque acts and heavy metal shows. But only hours before the black mass was to start, the Middle East pulled out. (There were rumors that influential opponents of the black mass had threatened to send fire marshals and health inspectors if the event went forward.) Finally, a rather ad-hoc version…

Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…cipation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle.” To gain official club status, the group requested an exemption from the school’s anti-discrimination policy, which the school denied, thus denying CLS official student organization status. In 2010, though, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the law school’s denial of official status to the group did not violate its free exercise rights. Yet the Bishops persist in claiming that this denial inf…