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“Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy” (Unless You’re Gay)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…u can’t abrogate that kind of responsibility, because of your influence – 7-million, 8-million viewers every Sunday. When you say things like “homosexuality is a sin” you are a judge, and you’re encouraging your congregation to believe that. It’s almost sad to see Osteen’s defensiveness and confusion when it comes to this issue. As he said, he didn’t go to seminary, so he didn’t get the benefit of doing any close reading of the scriptures in their…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…nonsense,” “pure fiction,” and “really a stretch.” He noted that abortion comprises 3-5% of Planned Parenthood’s budget, and that abortion is “certainly not a money-maker. At best, it’s a break-even.” Regarding fetal pain, the film discusses at great length a notorious 1999 picture taken by the photographer Michael Clancy which Clancy maintains shows a fetus, at 21 weeks of gestation, reaching out of the womb to grasp the finger of a surgeon perf…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…d to win both the nomination and the general election. But as Bringhurst’s new book, The Mormon Quest for the Presidency points out, Romney and Huntsman are not the first Mormons to run for president, and thus not the first Mormons forced to defend the LDS Church as acceptably American. In fact the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, launched a presidential bid in 1844: a campaign that ended when the Prophet was killed by an anti-Mormon mob. Romne…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…re (which explains the whole Mark Antony and Cleopatra thing), Egypt has become a non-factor in the region. The country with arguably the world’s oldest functioning university contributes little to global knowledge, and its Islamic scholarship is outclassed by dynamic institutions in what were once the fringes of the Muslim world. Some 40% of the population lives below the poverty line. The country has spent years under martial law. Torture is rou…

‘Biblical’ Stoning About Mental Health, Money, & Mormonism Too

By Joanna Brooks

…bout the grisly murder by stoning of a 70-year-old Philadelphia man by a 28-year-old who accused him of “homosexual advances,” it appears that this is a story as much about mental health and human vulnerability as it is about homophobia. Murray Seidman, 70, had sustained a brain injury at birth that left him with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old. For the first twenty years of his life, he had been institutionalized. For the last forty, he h…

Coming Out As a Heretic

By Kate Blanchard

…t its ongoing diversity. The earliest Christians, as evidenced by both the New Testament and ancient theological writings, did not agree on the nature of Jesus or his work. In the fourth and later centuries, Christians made valiant (if misguided) attempts to unify their beliefs and practices by stamping out what they saw as errors; but Jesus people haven’t agreed since then either, despite centuries of the religious elite claiming otherwise. Embra…

Franklin Graham Defends Himself from Birtherism Charges by Engaging in… Birtherism

By Sarah Posner

…“not going to get involved in the political process.” He can’t help it that he agrees to media interviews where he knows he’s going to be asked political questions, and he hasn’t prepared better answers than “he’s a Mormon, but . . .” …

Polls Not Reflective of Readiness for Mormon President

By Joanna Brooks

…e, sexuality, or religion—they’ll take it. In the anonymous and consequence-free space of an opinion poll, many will delight in voicing their reticence or squeamishness or dislike or ignorance of groups they believe to be unlike themselves. But faced with actual choices in an actual election, most folks will sober up. Think of it as the opposite of the much-discussed Bradley effect: the idea that in the privacy of the voting booth, people would re…

New Report: Young People Leaving Church for Science

By Paul Wallace

…”; “Christianity is anti-science”; and “[I am] turned off by the creation-versus-evolution debate.” I was stunned. Not because this is news exactly, but because science rated its very own bullet point from this rather extensive piece of research. The science-religion debate is big, sure, but big enough to register in a survey of outgoing parishioners? Skeptical, I contacted a friend of mine who is a noted authority on these things. I asked him h…

Quiz: How Would Jesus Respond to the Evolution Question?

By Paul Wallace

…at he believes. He also talked about love. I can’t accept Daly’s stark, one-or-the-other view of science and theology. But I can’t reject his insistence that if the science-religion debate is not grounded in love, it will amount to only so much sound and fury, signifying nothing. But what does love look like? For me, it looks like Jesus. And Jesus could be pretty rough on people, especially when he smelled snakes. And especially when the snakes we…