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New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. The state is expecting such a flood of same-sex applicants that day that New York City has even implemented a lottery for 764 slots for Sunday. Two clerks who won’t be busy will be Rosemary Centi of Guilderland and Laura Fotusky of Barker. Both women have quit their jobs, saying granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates their religious liberty. “I believe that God designed marriage as a divine institution to protect our families an…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…d Bello Adoke said the law’s focus was discouraging same-sex marriage. The New York Times published an op ed by Denver David Robinson, whose 2013 photo essay on gay Ugandans, which appeared in the Advocate in early 2013, was altered and reprinted, without permission, by the Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper, putting the lives of its gay Ugandan subjects at risk. Noosim Naimasiah, a PhD candidate at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere Un…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…image in the Bible is a minority image. The Christian church is to be the yeast in the bread, the light in the darkness, the salt in the soup. It’s never supposed to be Christendom running the world. We are to give a flavor to life. We’re remnant people walking into the mystery of God and we have to walk faithfully….

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…complex of…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 127. “What fundamental attitude…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 132-3. “Once in a debate…”: Mary Lukas and Ellen Lukas, Teilhard (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1977): 237-8. “From this there follows…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Activation of Energy,…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…complex of…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 127. “What fundamental attitude…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 132-3. “Once in a debate…”: Mary Lukas and Ellen Lukas, Teilhard (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1977): 237-8. “From this there follows…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Activation of Energy,…

Biblical Inerrancy’s Long History as an Evangelical Activist for White Patriarchy

By Stephen Young

…ce to biblical truthfulness, and portray complementarian competitors as corruptors of true biblical authority or too-literal in their inerrancy. Complementarians then delegitimize evangelical egalitarian participation in the game itself by denying them inerrantist legitimacy. In other words, everyone involved plays the same biblical authority game. But the game isn’t “really” just about debates over biblical interpretation. It’s about contesting w…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…the purview of the Buddhist Churches of America or the Buddhist Council of New York. Consider Naropa University, the Institute of Buddhist Studies, University of the West, and Soka University of America—the four fully-accredited, Buddhist-affiliated, degree-granting institutions of higher education in the United States. Consider the Insight Meditation Society, the San Francisco Zen Center, and Shambhala Mountain Center, each of which attract thous…

Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology

By Christopher Douglas

…obviously in volume 9 of the series, when the Antichrist rides into the Jerusalem Temple on a pig, which he then slaughters. The series’ skittishness about sex—before they become born-again Christians, Rayford fantasizes about adultery but doesn’t actually adulterate, while his college student daughter sins by getting drunk, though not by having sex—likewise suggests the purity triggers in conservative Christian psychology. Harm reduction and fai…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…several minor but glaring inaccuracies in Jodi Kantor’s front-page Sunday New York Times feature on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. Like the fact that the word “Deseret” is never used as an adjective. And Mormons don’t sing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” It’s not in the hymnbook. Another friend who works in public radio in Utah alerted me that a New York Times reporter called the “LDS Church” the “LSD Church” in a multimedia presentation that went al…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…the eucharist.” He is letting the eucharist be a modeling of how you construe the world as a neighborhood. But then the eucharist has to be rescued from a privatized sin/salvation theology, where I think most people understand it. Dan: That theme is still present even in the Episcopal church, the Anglican tradition, though they have some wonderful models that come out of New Zealand of how that’s a public, communal celebration. Walter: There’s a…