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Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…these, his funeral last October was the largest in the country’s history, with 800,000 Israelis attending. In the past month, Rabbi Noam Perel, head of Bnei Akiva, the largest Jewish religious youth group in the world, called for the mass-murder of Palestinians and for their foreskins to be scalped and brought back as trophies, alluding to an episode in the Book of Samuel; and a Jerusalem city councillor, in charge of security, encouraged a crowd…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…einart and Lerner represent two rather distinct viewpoints spurring the growing Jewish American support for Mideast peace. The more popular view is Beinart’s, based on a rationalist ethic: There is moral good and evil. When a narrative legitimates evil, it must be abandoned in favor of a new one that moves people to do good (and fits the facts—in this case, the fact of Israel’s security due to its overwhelming power). It’s not surprising to see a…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…adrennial General Conference in Portland, Oregon. From May 10-20, more than 800 delegates will debate changes to church policy, including several that seek to lift longstanding bans on LGBT ministers and same-sex marriages. This is the first Methodist General Conference since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015. LGBT-affirming Methodists have failed to change church policy, with the denomination’s numerical strength now in the south –…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…Love has similarly claimed in 2020 that Taylor tried to do the same thing with her following Kurt Cobain’s death. But Taylor’s “heart to help women” and conservatorships would not be contradictory in her mind. Taylor is an evangelical. Her husband, Rob Taylor, is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Brentwood in Tennessee. In addition to opposing marriage equality the church also believes in Complementarianism, a version of Christian Patriarchy th…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.” Still, McConkie’s own book, Mormon Doctrine, which propounded racist legitimations for the priesthood ban, remained for sale in LDS bookstores and on the shelves of LDS homes. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when questioned about the ban in public, LDS Church leaders continue…

The C Word

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of the Bible, Jesus’ humanity and divinity and the belief that he one day will personally return to earth to “judge all people.” If you’re a parent and you want to get involved with MOPS or “Mothers of Pre-schoolers” you’ll also be asked to give consent to a statement of faith: Churches/parachurches and individual MOPS ministry leaders must embrace and agree on the basic, orthodox truths of the Christian faith and the essential issues of salvatio…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…e school administration or the school board in the past, because it was so widely accepted. No one exercised the right to protest. “Now that it has happened, we all know what the laws are, so we have to make sure we’re doing what’s right,” he said. As always, it’s important to note that the districts’ decisions don’t take away a student’s right to pray. As Barrie Lynn of American’s United for Separation of Church and State says, “As long as there…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…church, this is a way of connecting,” Shipps said. The difference is that with blogging, as with all things internet, maintaining order is a challenge, even for Mormons who are historical experts at keeping track of things. “It seems to me that it would be virtually impossible to organize Mormon blogging,” Haglund said. “The nature of the medium overcomes even Mormons’ well-known tendency to defer to authority. There simply isn’t any central body…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ould not prefer one religion over another or religion over nonreligion; Conflating religious authority with political authority is idolatrous and often leads to oppression of minority and other marginalized groups as well as the spiritual impoverishment of religion; and We must stand up to and speak out against Christian nationalism, especially when it inspires acts of violence and intimidation—including vandalism, bomb threats, arson, hate crimes…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…holarship done this summer. Meanwhile, I try to hold it together to write a 800-word piece without crying and wanting to tear my hair out about the pain of my people. I’m not writing prophetic words to you anymore. You fix this shit. I’m done carrying the cross of America, its false promises of democracy and inclusion, the documents that excluded me and called my ancestors three-fifths of a person. You figure it out. I’m about comforting Black peo…