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LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ned by Christian churches around the globe, to be summarily dismissed by a website that is supposedly set up to help LGBT people find accepting places to worship shows just how far the LGBT community has strayed from our own commitment to welcome everyone. Apparently, we cannot even make room at the table for everyone in our own community if their doctrines don’t smell right. I understand the argument put forth by the owner of the site itself, tha…

Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…as it apologized for its support of racial segregation. Similarly, the new website on Joseph Smith’s polygamy does not say that Smith was wrong—not for marrying against the wishes of his first wife Emma, or marrying women already married to other men, or marrying girls as young as fourteen. It acknowledges that Smith’s polygamy demanded heartwrenching sacrifices of his first wife, but it sidesteps the crucial question of whether these sacrifices w…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ima Tahboub, to the Jordanian Media Commission to open an inquiry into the website My.Kali, a Jordanian queer-inclusive social affairs online magazine published since 2007. The commission concluded that same month that the magazine had violated the Press and Publication Law and issued instructions to block access to its website in Jordan. … The law defines online publications subject to the licensing requirement as those that “engage in publicatio…

Personhood Super PAC

By Sarah Posner

…ad exposing Mitt Romney’s continued support of abortion.” The Super PAC’s website has a widget that allows you to “find out which candidates have pledged to be pro-life.” It clicks through to the Personhood USA website. Personhood USA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Jason Jones, a spokesperson for the Pro-Life Super PAC, claimed the Super PAC was not connected to Personhood USA or any other organization. He said, “we lik…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ir multi-national, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character. That said, the numbers of nations and people that we mention are sourced solely on the claims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). Internatio…

The Text-Message Fast

By Kate Childs Graham

…myriad online resources for people of faith during the Lenten season. The website includes everything from articles and podcasts to audio retreats and video meditations. This website shows that – in this instance, at least – the US bishops and the folks working with them are trying to know their audience and use whatever tools work to disseminate their message. They are trying to be a place for online spiritual seekers. By suggesting that young a…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…he writes in “The peril of selective inerrancy” on the Baptist News Global website. Marshall isn’t the only prominent SBC or ex-SBC woman fighting against the patriarchal takeover. Others include Nancy Hastings Sehested, whose installation as senior pastor of Prescott Memorial Church in Memphis in 1987 caused that church to be expelled from the SBC; Jann Aldredge-Clanton, who describes debating Patterson’s wife Dorothy Kelley Patterson on women’s…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…in 2006, declined a request for an interview. However, he says on the TPCN website that he joined the group after conducting research that convinced him that “countless women were suffering through a decision they never really wanted to make—nor wouldn’t have to—if just one other person were available to listen, support, protect, and educate.” According to a 2011 report by NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, the money spent on Alternatives to Abortion could h…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ion (Historically Black Protestant) Members (as of 2010): 5,197,512 On its website, The National Baptist Convention USA Inc. says it has no “official” position on any issues with regards to homosexuality, in keeping with the polity’s mission not to make any authoritative statements on behalf of its constituency. However, it states: “if you were to take a poll of traditional, missionary Black Baptist Churches, it is very safe to say that you will f…

The Zeitgeist Debate

By Sarah Posner

…d it. Simple Googling of the “information sources” listed on the Zeitgeist website would reveal — to the filmmakers, obviously — the anti-Semitism embedded in these conspiracy theories and the ongoing resonance of the theories in the far right. Conservative writer Byron York might believe they “resemble far-right paranoia from many years ago,” but if he pays a visit to the John Birch Society table at CPAC next month, he may be able to discuss simi…