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New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e questions. We just have to take the researchers word for it that they’ve changed and that they’re happy about that change. Another concern about not knowing the stories of these participants calls into question what kind of sexual “problems” they may have been dealing with in the first place. Often, when I hear from people who say they have “changed” and become heterosexual, they tell me about the problems they had with pornography and sexual pr…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…women. And it comes at a time when Mormon women are talking more openly about incremental, pragmatic ways to increase egalitarianism within the Church without doctrinal change. Signatures have been collecting in support of a list of such changes published by Mormon women last month….

Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

By Jay Michaelson

…that the secular use of mindfulness is not going to make people saints, or change their values, but is going to lessen their suffering. That’s his goal. That alone is good in itself. I don’t look to mindfulness as a way to change the way people think about the planet. You know, I once wrote a book called Ecological Intelligence which argued that if the environmental effects of what we do and buy were easily accessed at decision points, that that…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…angelical anti-environmentalism. Now, evangelical anti-environmentalists like Beisner, Beeker and Cavanaugh face a much more formidable opponent in the EPA. And there is much at stake. For many years, Congress has demonstrated an inability to take action to combat climate change. The EPA has the power to take this important step to address the climate change crisis and in doing so lend the U.S. some credibility so that other nations might follow s…

RDPulpit: Nature Worship: A Primer

By Rex Weyler

…oes, but ordinary heroes and common decency. Humanity requires large-scale change, but eventually, change comes down to the daily choices and actions that make large-scale change possible. We must act as if the age of ecological enlightenment has arrived. Here and now, on Earth Day 2009, we might begin this transformation by changing our lives. Here are some things we can do to be part of the solution: * Stop hydrocarbon use: Walk, ride a bike, or…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…intment that will come in the future when Catholic church teachings do not change will not be a surprise to those of us who know the history of the glacial pace of change in the Catholic church. Personally, unless Pope Francis calls a council on human sexuality, I very much doubt his papacy will change much about the corpus of Catholic teaching on homosexuality—defined by that tradition as ‘intrinsically disordered,” While I very much appreciate t…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…o gay rights activists last year after imposing a sanction on the U.S. Episcopal Church following its ordination and marriage of LGBT people. The Episcopal Church was banned from representation on key bodies and barred from voting on issues relating to doctrine or strategy for three years. But the sanction drew dismay among Liberal Anglicans. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, lamented that the ban brought pain to those who h…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…e have sent to hell” for using contraception if the teaching were suddenly changed? But another reason lurked behind the official explanation about why the teaching could not be changed: maintaining the link between sex and procreation was essential to the maintenance of the traditional, subordinate role of women. Maintaining the traditional family, in which men were leaders in the world outside the home and women were confined to the domestic rea…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tions The Chamber of Deputies voted to allow transgender people to legally change their name and gender; the change must be approved by the Senate. According to Pink News, the bill was opposed by the Evangelical Churches of La Paz, which said it would lead to legalization of same-sex marriage. Deputy Justice Minister Diego Jimenez, who is a backer of the bill, said it would not alter the country’s marriage laws. Australia: American activists engag…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…ckfire when people stop making positive changes in their lives because the number on a scale doesn’t change. In terms of ex-gay ministries I think it is the perception that people who engage in these ministries are in deep denial and are self-deluded. Some probably are. But many whom I spoke with who have been in these ministries for years or decades foster no illusions about having become heterosexual. What they do know is that they have made a s…