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Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…thony List? Its president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, wrote a column for National Review Online yesterday titled “Pro-Lifers Must Unite Behind Romney.” (The discussion in the comments thread did make its way around to the Stericycle story, with folks chiming in both to support and criticize Romney.) Americans United for Life? Again, as of 4 p.m. central, their online media center made no mention of it. LifeSiteNews, which previously reported on a Romn…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…to the struggles of women, African Americans, and GLBTQ citizens. On a global scale, however, secularism most certainly is an issue of civil rights and of human rights. And it’s important to note that the suppression of religious dissent online is being carried out not just by government authorities but also by private corporations. During the Innocence riots, for instance, Google restricted YouTube access to the video in India, Indonesia, Malays…

Virgins and Vampire Worship: The Religion of Twilight

By Linda Kay Klein

…y. He took his shirt off. Clapping became screaming, and the woman behind me yelled “Oh yeah! Take it off Jacob! That’s my baby daddy up there!” With the release of its final film, Twilight is already being emptied of its religious significance. But it will always have boys without shirts….

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…ead the Book of Mormon) invents “scriptural” stories in the form of practical allegories, with embellishments borrowed from Star Trek, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings, the Africans respond enthusiastically. When confronted by LDS Church authorities about this blasphemy, the missionaries defect, and, with the help of the natives, start their own new religion based on their own new scripture: the Book of Arnold. The musical gives Africans far more…

A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?

By Jessica Weisberg

…off smoke bombs during his reading at a London bookstore; there were several online petitions circling through the web. The fact that the original faculty list included only one woman did not help the image of elitism and exclusion. Critics also object to Grayling’s school on religious grounds. Giles Fraser, a philosophy professor at Oxford, complained on Twitter that the New College of the Humanities was a “new atheist school.” The Church Mouse,…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…y for trying to get to the truth of his death rather than accept the official false war hero narrative spun by the Bush administration? In an interview with ESPN.com, Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, who led the second investigation into Tillman’s death, said the reason for the family’s dogged pursuit of the truth of his death was because they didn’t believe in God. “When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an ath…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…and the connection of this activity to religious organizations and spiritual values that are not nurtured in other settings suggests that people are not leaving the church merely because they can more easily connect socially with friends on Facebook. Social media participation does correlate positively to charitable and civic group participation. But here again, where people already have meaningful interpersonal affiliations, social media support…

Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

By Sarah Posner

…neficiaries of federally funded social service programs by providing referrals to alternative providers if the beneficiary objects to the religious character of the organization providing the services; Clarifies that decisions about financial awards must be free from political interference or even the appearance of such interference; Affirms that faith-based organizations that receive Federal financial assistance may use their facilities to provid…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…scribed rather succinctly—except for the one thing that made my plans radically altered. The original flight itinerary, which I already had printed out, has been changed. Instead of arriving in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at around 9:30 p.m., I arrive around 7:00 p.m. The travel agent said this change was required from the Saudi end; thus my flight into Jeddah from Paris had to be changed. But in order to make this two-hour adjustment, I lost my direct f…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…might be. But I have to be honest, as much as I am learning about new textual analysis to challenge entrenched homophobia etc., there is one thing that really, really got my attention. Once I started meeting out Muslims from the gay community, I also learned that they were most often told they had to make a choice. Either be gay, lesbian, or whatever their sexual orientation, or be Muslim. In fact, they were barred from having access to Allah thro…