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Controversial LDS Conference Talk Edited for Publication

By Joanna Brooks

…not as a public relations effort, but as the result of a significant internal dialogue within Church leadership over matters of rank, authority, and theology. Those who have watched LDS official discourse on homosexuality evolve since the 1980s felt that Elder Packer’s talk on Sunday represented something of a throwback, a departure from a slow movement towards acknowledging the feelings and experiences of LGBT people and those who love and serve…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…policy experience, her close ties to the Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest that President Obama cares little about supporting religious freedom around the world. As Mark Silk put it succinctly, “This is the Religion Ambassador?” The Washington Post is carefully tiptoeing around the question of Rev. Cook’s appointment, quoting the first Ambassador-at-Large, Thomas Farr, who called Cook an outstanding pastor…

Quitting Religion, But Not the Practice of Prayer

By Elizabeth Drescher

…was created by Thomas Cranmer to be as much a resource for personal and familial prayer as for corporate worship. The irony of late-modern institutional Christianity, from which the majority of the self-declared unaffiliated emerge, is that this holistic, everyday spirituality among ordinary people hardly plays a role in popular notions of “religion.” Yet, prayer seems to be a lingering link between the personal and the common, the religious past…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…Spiders From Mars (1972) is thick with Christological symbolism and biblical allusions. Ziggy re-stages the rise and fall of Jesus Christ as a Pop-art comic strip—an Exploding Plastic Parable (with apologies to Warhol!) about the celebrity as demigod in a fame-crazed culture, where millions worship their idols onscreen (“praying to the light machine,” as Ziggy puts it) but would sacrifice them in a heartbeat—burnt offerings on the altar of Mark D…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

…flush in her hands and a tin cup of home brew close by. At day’s end, Admiral William Adama and President Laura Roslin like to reflect on the troubles of their ragtag fleet over bourbon in the Admiral’s quarters. And Col. Saul Tigh, Adama’s executive officer, was a spectacularly unrepentant lush until the end of last season. Then he realized he was a Cylon; now he’s positively abstemious. Apart from the tippling and the polytheism, Galactica’s Dio…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hical and can’t be practiced. By the same token, because religious groups will always find a way around the laws about this or that kind of therapy, citing religious freedom, I think the bigger issue is that people need to be educated about why this kind of stuff is so harmful, so we eliminate the demand for it. That’s happening bit by bit but there is still a lot of work to do to educate Christians. When I go speak I meet Christians all the time…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…ns in 2005 and 2006 were orchestrated by Muslim extremists with the political goal of destabilizing regimes in a number of Muslim countries. It appears that the experts consulted by Yale University Press have accepted this argument, including the prediction by a former foreign minister of Nigeria that publishing the images would cause riots from Indonesia to Nigeria; a repeat of the previous protests that led to a boycott of Danish products, attac…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…a fetal heartbeat can be detected, effectively making almost all abortions illegal, or one of the several other proposed laws that would pose severe challenges to Roe v. Wade. Already this term, the deeply conservative Kansas legislature has passed bills banning sex-selective abortion and “wrongful birth” lawsuits, protecting doctors who don’t advise patients they may be carrying a pregnancy with significant complications. The state’s governor, fo…

Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…the data contained with only one word: “disturbing.” The first map (as compiled by Salatomatic, an Islamic guide to mosques) compiled the number of mosques per state, while the second, using U.S. Department of State data, charts the number of refugees arriving in each state (from October 2014-July 2015), and the third offers “a compilation of Islamic terror activity by state” pairing the names of organizations with U.S. cities (for instance, Boca…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…“mistakes were made,” though he failed to take responsibility for making false allegations against a former pastor. John Piper may have called out his fellow megachurch pastor for taking credit for work penned by others but in its statement Tyndale didn’t waver in its support for Driscoll. “Because of the biblical manner in which Pastor Driscoll has handled this situation, Tyndale strongly stands behind him and looks forward to publishing many ad…