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Don’t Ask, Don’t Ask: Women Seeking to Become Catholic Army Chaplains

By Kate Childs Graham

…eeks ago community leaders of Catholic men and women religious convened in Denver, Colorado. In between sessions on topics from global warming to the decrease in vocations, vendors set up tables to sell their products or their ideas or, in some cases, to recruit. Among this array of merchants was one table that, to an untrained eye, might have seemed better placed at a high school job fair than a gathering of priests and nuns—the United States Arm…

‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…Ryder Cup team is chock full of born-again Christian golfers. In football, Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Tim Tebow has been labled a “hyper-Christian” by Rolling Stone. A feature in this month’s issue, written by Matt Taibbi, nicknames Tebow “Kid Jesus.” A pair of Muslims from New York spent every night of Ramadan in a different mosque in a different state on what they called a “Ramadan Roadtrip.” A group of vengeful Oklahoma City atheists,…

Wallis Seeking Payback for Obama Defense?

By Kathryn Joyce

…into practice as a plank of the party platform: “This is going to be a big Denver conversation,” said Wallis. “You don’t have to call for criminalizing anyone. You don’t have to take a different stance about a woman’s right to choose. But you begin with the need for reducing abortion dramatically.” … “Taking abortion seriously as a moral issue would help Democrats a great deal with a constituency that is already leaning in their direction on pover…

A Nation of Believers and Nonbelievers—Second Thoughts on Obama’s Speech

By Ronald Aronson

…prayer or meditation”? The “values” and “unity” event that kicked off the Denver convention turned out to be a religious celebration, pure and simple. Leah Daughtry ignored the Secular Coalition for America’s request to participate. And every convention session began with a prayer. Wouldn’t it be more unifying and respectful of all people’s beliefs to reach out to nonbelievers as well, and to recast the event next time so that it’s really about “…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. In the book, she likens herself to “a Lutheran Nikita,” the fictional teenaged drug addict whose death was faked by the government so she could do their dirty work. “I was allowed not to die in exchange for working for God,” Bolz-Weber writes, “I’d have to become God’s bitch.” I had a chance to talk with Bolz-Weber about her journey and how she now finds i…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…igh Washington to serve as president.” A few years after its founding, the Denver, Colorado-based Promise Keepers experienced an extraordinary growth spurt, drawing tens of thousands of men to rallies in football stadiums and sports arenas across the country. As attendance at its rallies grew—278,000 in 1994, 738,000 in 1995 and more than a million in 1996—so did its revenues. In 1997, more than one million men gathered on the National Mall in Was…

Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming Out While Evangelical

By Suzanna Krivulskaya

…ch for fully supporting LGBTQ people, but found a like-minded community in Denver. Derek Webb invited Knapp to go on tour together so she could acclimate to the scene once again. In 2011, Knapp founded Inside Out Faith, an advocacy organization that seeks to educate and equip religious leaders to advocate on behalf of LGBTQ people. Her faith taught her love, Knapp maintains, so how could loving another person ever be wrong? It was too late for me,…

Op-Ed: Bashing Back: Queer Thugs?

By Ariana Childs Graham

…up of “Radical Transfolk, Queers and Allies” with chapters in Chicago, DC, Denver, Lansing, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and Olympia. Anyone who accepts the Bash Back! “points of unity,” which include agreeing to “fight for liberation,” can start their own chapter and conduct any actions they deem necessary. Bash Back! Chicago describes itself as: Dedicated to eradicating heteronormativity, subverting binary gender norms, capitalism…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…hristian [Right]” school board victories—a favorite tactic of the Right—in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Dallas, and calls on believers to “find anyone in church that’s not registered to vote, register them to vote and get them to vote their biblical values,” claiming that church mobilizations, and efforts by groups like Moms for Liberty, were key to these local victories. Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Senior Pastor at Free Chapel, based in Georgia, e…

Megachurches Mega-Mortgages Mega-Late

By Jonathan L. Walton

…to reside together physically although they are separated legally. As one Denver divorcee states, “It’s the lesser of two evils. I think the financial stress of a foreclosure, which would probably lead to a bankruptcy, would be worse.” Well, somebody should have sent this memo to the world of Christian broadcasting. In 2007 two of the most high-profile couples in televangelism—Paula and Bishop Randy White and Bishop Thomas Weeks and Juanita Bynum…