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The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…n their flannels and Doc Martens like they were headed to a coffee shop in Seattle. And then there was the clan of wealthy white male students, whose fathers were top doctors at the best L.A. hospitals or executives at the biggest movie studios, who let their pants sag, tagged anything that didn’t move with graffiti, seemingly wanting to rewrite their own history to appear as if they grew up on the streets of Compton instead of Rodeo Drive. Needle…

Leadership Conference of Women Religious: No Retreat, No Surrender

By Anthea Butler

…m of sustained measure to stop the CDF and the Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle appointed to oversee the CDF mandate to carry out reforms in the LCWR. New President Franciscan Sr. Florence Deacon will lead the LCWR during this time. She will have to forge a path to keep the organization intact, while dealing with clerics who would rather watch and censure than engage in dialogue. As a Church Historian, I applaud this move. Anyone with an eye to…

Op-Ed: Liberal Hatred

By Laurie Patton

…e in recent memory, such as the shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle and attacks on the mosques in the wake of 9/11. Theories of religion and violence are abundant in religious studies—even more so since 9/11. Some scholars focus on the ways religions find justification in their own scriptures for acts of violence. Others focus on the ways economic and political oppression create a cult of martyrs; the only meaningful life is one whi…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…evention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, now the FaithTrust Institute, in Seattle, Washington, “a national, multicultural training and education organization with global reach working to end sexual and domestic violence.” It is the go-to place for work on religion and violence. Dr. Fortune’s book, Love Does No Harm, shows the strong influence of her professor and friend, Dr. Farley, who preached at her ordination and encouraged her to work toward…

Rage Against the Regime: Voices from the Iranian Underground Music Scene

By Austin Dacey

…rock band Kiosk, who started in a Tehran basement and have since landed in Seattle. “The old justification used to be that anything that promotes ‘decadent Western culture’ was considered a form of cultural attack against Islam from the West and therefore banned,” they told me. “Many bands who fused classical Persian poetry from Hafez and Rumi with rock music were denied permission to publish or perform because of the ‘temptation’ caused by their…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…Mohler, president of the country’s largest Southern Baptist seminary, and Seattle’s “cussing pastor,” Mark Driscoll. Harris and Mahaney are also board members of influential, staunchly conservative organizations like The Gospel Coalition and the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Alongside these powerful partnerships has come strife. In its short history, SGM has been shaken by several high-profile departures and church splits. Co-founder…

Gay Marriage = Mob Rule?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…kend in more than 175 cities and outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A Seattle blogger was trying to organize simultaneous protests outside statehouses and city halls in every state Saturday. In New York City, several hundred protesters planned to march later Wednesday on the Mormon Temple in Manhattan. The church had encouraged its members to support the California ban. Amid the joy in Connecticut and the anger and disappointment in Californi…

Funding of Creationist Organizations Doubles

By Lauri Lebo

…eator of the DVD series Why Evolution is Stupid. In 2008, the organization, also known as Creation Science Evangelism, brought in more than $931,000 in sales and donations. The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which pushes the creationist concept of intelligent design, was not included in the ranking….

Pope Francis vs. the Bishops: An “Overblown” Narrative?

By Patricia Miller

…he National Catholic Reporter, “since the 2011 USCCB elections, a stunning number of very talented people have left the USCCB” and many of their replacements have little experience with social justice policy but “a string of associations with different conservative outfits”: Now, not to put too fine a point on it, but one wonders if Pope Francis could be hired to work at the USCCB today. He has no background in religious liberty litigation. He did…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…about “both sides” of controversial issues—most notably on evolution. The Seattle-based, pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute is behind efforts to introduce many of these bills and has proposed sample legislation for lawmakers to follow. Since the Louisiana bill was passed (making it the only state to have actually passed an academic freedom bill into law), proposed bills have included global warming and human cloning on the list of “contro…