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Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…theology is a kind of pluralistic discussion that welcomes all kinds of premises and belief commitments as it tackles shared questions. It’s not just haggling over dogma, or defining the nature of God. I asked Sheehan why, if NASA wanted to address certain big questions about astrobiology and society, they should turn to theologians, instead of asking philosophers or sociologists or religious studies scholars to come up with some answers. Sheehan…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…ere’s a deeper level to it. At one point, the characters are caught in the middle of a firefight between the monster and a National Guard regiment. Make no mistake: this is a movie about the invisibility of the Iraq war. We live oblivious to the reality of war, and in Cloverfield, that chicken comes home to roost. We deserve it, the film says, because it’s already happening and we pretend it isn’t. Late in the film one character exclaims, “I don’t…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ons from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a wonderfully diverse group of religious folks. We had Unitarian’s and Episcopalians and Presbyterians and Baptists, and we even had a Catholic priest an…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…r they considered themselves Evangelicals, and so forth. Gallup said there might be 50 million American who are evangelicals, and journalists ran with that. It was a much higher number than had been assumed before, [which were based on counting members of those denominations within] the National Association of Evangelicals. In addition to changing the numbers, polling also changed political perception, [by implying] that evangelicals were a voting…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…urned upside-down and thereby made anti-Christian. “Bottoms up,” she says, mimicking the motion. Weick’s most striking piece of evidence is the large, stylized letter M, which she claims is not one letter but the Hebrew letter Vav repeated three times. In Hebrew, letters have numerical values. The first letter, Alef, is also the number one; the second letter, Bet, is also the number two; etc. Vav, the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and has th…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…d at least 29 people in the northeastern city of Miaduguri. Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group active in the area, has “repeatedly attacked schools, churches, and government and military targets.” Says Reuters, “The radical Islamist sect says it is fighting to create an Islamic state in a country of nearly 170 million, split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.” In Uganda, where a draconian anti-gay bill has also passed parliament, A…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…Moslem community wanted to say they were sorry for what others did. There might even be a victim (and yes, when we can’t forgive, we remain victims) who might become able to forgive if they participated in a program at a community center, got to know someone, had a swim or listened to a lecture. Forgiveness needs signs and symbols. Religious institutions need signs and symbols. Forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. But it could begin with a bui…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…frequently reject are actually at the center of this movement—women. From Minneapolis to Mizzou, young black women are troubling the waters. Women clergy—whom many of you will not allow to darken the steps of your pulpit—have consistently been in the streets. These sister-preachers stand in the gap between the gates of heaven and hell for our tattooed and gold-toothed youth. The Ferguson effect—forged in the streets, not the sanctuary—has set the…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ver came a time, God forbid, that my partner had cancer or some other illness that ended, or severely curtailed our sex life, I would stay by her side until the end—that is the vow I took and that is the vow I would keep. Our marriage is based on love, commitment, and collaboration—not complementarity. I, too, have experienced the delight of a godly marriage—one based in partnership, in grace, in love and commitment. I am so sorry for the loss of…