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‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…telegraph company office. According to Dann, early photography seemed magical to “rural Americans” and “native peoples.” As for the telegraph, which was arguably one of the most important inventions ever, it was apparently a mere “mechanical simulacra of clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience.” Moving uptown and through the centuries, Dann points out sites related to Freemasonry, mesmerism, phrenology, Swedenborgianism, psychometry, Rosicruc…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…n Education Network, speaks of his “model Christian school” that’s easily scalable and can be replicated by the dozens within years. Both celebrate the June Supreme Court ruling on Carson v. Makin that allows school vouchers to be used at religious schools. The educators’ conversation is moderated by Joseph Backholm, Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at the FRC. The trio shares an urgent call for hundredfold increases i…

Ordered To Remove Her Hijab, Army Sgt. Felt ‘Religiously Raped’

By Paul Rosenberg

…tially. [Montoya] then stated ‘no, all the way off,’ so I took off my undercap [a hat or scarf worn beneath a hijab to, ironically, contain hair] and she said turn around. I hurried to put my undercap back on and fixed my hijab. She said ‘mmhmm, and to get out of here.’” Nothing was said about her hair. Valdovinos was shaken. “At this point I felt embarrassed and religiously raped in a sense. My religious preference is only to unveil in front of m…

For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

By Tris Mamone

…openly bisexual. However, she’s still processing her experiences at French Camp Academy. “I laugh about it and make jokes,” Stringer says, “but that is how I deal with it because there are parts of that experience that I look back on as an adult and realize just how dark my experiences truly were, so I use humor and sarcasm as a coping mechanism.” “What [Christian schools] teach about sex and sexuality and gender and marriage is extremely psycholo…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…hin InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, one of the nation’s largest evangelical campus ministries. While Johnson believes that folks in her circles “didn’t necessarily vote for Trump,” they are part of a larger culture that made widespread white evangelical support for Trump possible. By staying in this environment, she hopes to attack one of the root causes of this problem: “An impoverished theology where people don’t understand a ‘God of the oppr…

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

By Holly Welker

…re than a third of the Republicans (4 out of 11). On September 25, a group called Mormon Women for Ethical Government issued a letter asking those four men to: [Insist] on a full, independent investigation of these charges before a confirmation vote takes place… As your constituents, your neighbors, and your sisters in the gospel, we ask you to give sincere consideration to the message you are communicating through your participation in the Kavana…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e – Derek Ferguson has become a spokesperson for the Time for Inclusive Education campaign, “which is currently lobbying the Scottish Government to introduce LGBT education into schools in order to tackle high rates of homophobic bullying.” More from Glasgow Live: Ferguson said: “We have been educating against racism and sectarianism in Scotland for over 10 years and we passionately believe that raising awareness amongst young people about the iss…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…low-income queer and trans people in the hope of funding gender-affirming care that can cost tens of thousands; or to the patrons at Club Q who stood up to the shooter, disarmed and subdued him. The networks are there. The evidence is there. The stories have been told. The conversations have been had. The bullets have been fired. And fired. And fired. And the loved ones have died. And died. And died. It is time. It’s time to invest into the syste…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…th a response. Like unto this belief is that “people of faith” should not, cannot appreciate government, because relying on government means you don’t or won’t rely on God. (This line of reasoning is sometimes deployed in debates on social welfare programs as well.) For the record, Christians of strong and good faith can and do participate in government. Christians and other faithful people can even rely on government to meet their needs. Have con…

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

…color is to not exist, so in defense of trans existence, we turn to these canonical sources to say we exist and have always existed. But I’m fundamentally uninterested in justifying my existence. I don’t—I can’t have that conversation. I don’t want that to be the conversation. The Talmud also has some terrible things to say sometimes about women, about sex between men, about genital “damage.” It says terrible things and I don’t want to skate over…