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Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…rn.’ We want to do everything we can to encourage those who do feel a name change would be beneficial without recommending a legal name change for the convention.” In allowing for informal use of the name Great Commission Baptists, he said, “we believe we have found a way to do that.” But it is precisely in “theology, morality, and ethics” that the official name—Southern Baptist Convention—matches the key role of the SBC in guiding the white South…

Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

By Jay Michaelson

…that the secular use of mindfulness is not going to make people saints, or change their values, but is going to lessen their suffering. That’s his goal. That alone is good in itself. I don’t look to mindfulness as a way to change the way people think about the planet. You know, I once wrote a book called Ecological Intelligence which argued that if the environmental effects of what we do and buy were easily accessed at decision points, that that…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…a has never submitted a removal request under the Country Withheld Content policy. Iraq submitted its first this year. This being said, individual users can report generally abusive content directly to Twitter—indeed, it is first on the list on Twitter’s policy page. Abusive content includes accounts or individual Tweets used to harass individuals or promote or incite violence. These reports go to a real person trained to evaluate and make a judgm…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…ct of the article is how, when asked to explain their denialism of climate change, Tea Partiers seem to want to drop the pseudo-science fed to them from the corporate astroturf web sites and turn to religion. Again, I noticed the same thing at the 9/12 rally. The minute they are pressed to explain themselves with facts, they fall back on faith: Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party af…

Man-Made Climate Change Not Possible, Says Potential Energy Committee Chair

By Lauri Lebo

…ce Committee, which oversees regulation related to climate change. Why could this spell doom for us? Because Shimkus believes that God promised Noah after the flood that he will never cause another flood again. Therefore climate change can’t happen. Because God said so. With a new cadre of climate-change deniers joining Congress, expect to see more of these church revivals passing for what should be rational scientific discourse at congressional h…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…hate them even more for being untrustworthy and weak. Niebuhr’s courage to change was one of his chief strengths, although some things about him did not change. He always aspired to realism, even as a pacifist. He thrived on paradox almost to the point of treating it as a criterion of truth. He never relinquished the defining Social Gospel conviction that Christianity needed to be a force for peace, social change, and social justice. And he never…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t legalized gay marriage in 2015. LGBT-affirming Methodists have failed to change church policy, with the denomination’s numerical strength now in the south – both the southern U.S. and the global south: For decades, liberal Methodists have tried — and failed — to change church rules on homosexuality, and it may prove impossible again at this month’s General Conference. While American Methodists are diverse — both George W. Bush and Hillary Clinto…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…asy as filing a tax return’ Associated Press reports that a person can now change their legal gender in Norway as easily as filling a tax return. Iraq: Social media used to entrap gay men The Washington Blade interviewed Iraqi activist Ayaz Hassan, who says anti-gay militants are using social networks to identify gay men and kill them. Afghanistan: Activist charges security officials with waging extermination campaign Activist Nemat Sadat writes a…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…level. Now is our chance to raise our voices, to make ourselves heard and change national policy. We as activists don’t have the right to stop fighting or to give up. We must always remember those standing behind us, waiting to be seen and heard.” Uganda: Government targets nonprofits Politicians in Uganda have proposed legislation to give government monitors unfettered power over non-governmental organizations that work in the country. Famous fo…

How Climate Change Denial Is—and Isn’t—Like Creationism

By Sarah Posner

…On bloggingheads, I spoke last week with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about Sandy, climate change, and religion. In this segment, we talked about how climate change denial is, and is not, like creationism. Watch:…