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Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…coming to appreciate no-touch dating, hearing from family comes less as a welcome reminder of his true self than as nagging. Through a mix of personal moxie and unbelievable luck, Roose had quite the semester. For spring break, he joined a busload of Liberty students on a missionary vacation, “witnessing” to their godless peers at Daytona Beach, Florida. He held his own in Bible studies and received counseling for his masturbation habit. And, on…

New York Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ak a rule. The father pleads with the older brother to join the party — to welcome his wayward little brother back into the fold — but he refuses – believe that if God – or in this case his father – will welcome someone like that sinner into his house – then perhaps he wants no part of this. The parable doesn’t reveal what choice the older brother finally makes. The story ends with him left out on the stoop, deciding his fate. We have all been tha…

Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…2009, the Vatican announced a special “Apostolic Constitution” that would welcome these restive Episcopalians and Anglicans into the Catholic Church, allowing them to bring with them some of the glorious liturgies and music of the Anglican tradition. While I’ve seen no evidence of Anglicans and Episcopalians “swimming the Tiber” en masse (pardon the pun) to Rome, the Vatican’s overture struck me at the time as opportunistic, even cynical. Ignorin…

Beyond Adam and Eve

By Becky Garrison

…ansgender inclusion and advocacy because they were looking for the radical welcome edge. Rather, their outreach efforts were a pastoral response to the transgendered people who joined The Crossing community. Out of about 75 people who are part of their congregation, she estimates that about a half dozen are transgendered. “If we love those who are part of our community then we need to go out and stand by them and create more inclusive communities…

A Response to Hussein Rashid

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…ent American Muslims. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community does not appear to be welcome under that umbrella. For example, polling and census data collected and analyzed by American Muslim organizations never includes the opinions of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Even Ahmadi Muslim mosques are not counted among the total number of mosques in America. As another example, when 86 Ahmadi Muslims were brutally massacred in twin bomb attacks in Lahore on M…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…h, Tennessee was an arson. Elsewhere in the state, a Memphis pastor put a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” sign outside his church to welcome the new Islamic center being built nearby. And a new mosque has gone up in Lousiville, Kentucky quite peacefully. Is the BBC anti-Christian? The Florida pastor who had planned to burn Qur’ans on 9/11 has instigated protests in Indonesia and the threat of a flag-burning protest in Great Britain. Indian officials…

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…outwit US government prohibition on the doctrinal practice of polygamy. I welcome this statement as a demonstration of civility, public engagement, and moral responsiveness. Of course, the statement does not go as far as many LDS LGBT people and their allies hope. It does not offer institutional welcome or affirmation to LGBT people who want to live full lives as LGBT people. It maintains that LGBT behavior is sinful. It does not create new space…

Equally Blessed: Wear a Rainbow Ribbon to Mass

By Alex McNeill

…of the Catholic church, and ultimately we want a church where all will be welcome. We want a church that offers hope, not condemnation. Are there any groups doing similar work, or working against LGBT people? How that is playing out? There are other groups working on LGBT issues: Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry is a national organization of people who minister in the Catholic Church to LGBT people. A new group called Catholics f…

Pope: Heterosexual Marriage “Makes Europe Europe”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ats in Vatican City has also birthed a sort of new genre, the formal papal welcome; one that the current Pope has utilized to remind his new partners of just how un-modern, and even anti-modern, their new diplomatic home is. Modernity, after all, is characterized by this Pope as a moment of restless and breathless innovation, in contrast to his conception of the tradition-minded Church which involves passing on, unchanged, the wisdom we’ve inherit…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…that made the President’s speech seem flatter than most was the altogether welcome, and altogether adult, decision by the leadership of the two main parties to weave themselves together, thereby working against the endless intrusion of partisan shouting and handclapping on two sides of the chamber that tended to double the length of such speeches in the past decades. This was the very sort of thing that led Chief Justice Roberts to suggest last ye…