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The Islamophobia Dodge of the Religious Freedom Pledge

By Sarah Posner

…apparent willingness to overlook his endorser Jay Sekulow’s anti-Muslim crusades) are “considering” signing the pledge, with no questions raised by Open Doors. It seems that Open Doors is more concerned about what it perceives to be anti-Christian sentiment. According to the pledge, religious freedom includes the right to employ religious arguments “contending for or against laws and policies, such as laws designed to protect the unborn and tradi…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…him, and what they hope will come of his election. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and keep calling. Ask your friends and neighbors…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…ce at George Fox is similar to my own very public departure in 2013 from Azusa Pacific University, where I was at one time its chair of theology and philosophy, and taught ministry and theology for 15 years while complying with, then recovering from the near-fatal effects of various forms of reparative therapy. In the last year or so, we have observed increasing pushback against LGBTQ students (especially trans*), most publicly at George Fox, wher…

Obama in India: Missed Opportunities

By Anna Bigelow

…nd particularly noting that the strength of India—like the strength of the USA—lies in diversity, which was on full display during those attacks when we saw “Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, protecting each other, saving each other, living the common truth of all the world’s great religions that we are all children of God.” Obama spoke eloquently of the shared losses of India and America and rightly pointed out that the terrorists att…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…onald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, told a crowd at the NAR-influenced Turning Point USA‘s Educators Summit that “Satan wants your kids” and that children in public schools are under spiritual attack by demonic “wickedness in high places.” These aren’t merely the efforts of some of the more brazen Christian Right warriors. Walters and Newman are diligently working alongside other conservative efforts, in Louisiana and elsewhere, to radically change the land…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…l significant prochoice minorities among Mormons and White evangelicals. A number of leading mainline Protestant denominations are officially prochoice, including The Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As is most of organized Judaism. There are also deeply considered prochoice theological traditions within all of major world religious traditions present in t…

Will A Methodist Hold Up Health Care for the Catholic Bishops?

By Sarah Posner

…e Action Center, The Episcopal Church, Jewish Women International, NA’AMAT USA, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Washington Office, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, The Religious Institute, the Union for Reform Judaism, the United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries, the United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society, and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congr…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…gger and stronger than in America. So the conservatives are relying on the numbers of African leaders; they start fighting mainline church leadership using Africans to win the American battle, and come across as though they care about Africa. Do these renewal church conservatives in America actually care about Africa? They have some explaining to do: here conservatives came to fame because one of the governments, in a broadcast program, accused ma…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng to fact checkers at the San Jose Mercury News, the Washington Post, and USA Today, was only slightly less mendacious; the continuing falsehood about cuts to health care providers spun by the Romney campaign as cuts to Medicare beneficiaries noted as among the larger whoppers propagated in the speech. It seems unlikely that the GOP candidate would flat-out lie about investment by the Episcopal Church, but on a convention in which Clint Eastwood…

Good Without God: The Ethics of Atheism

By Becky Garrison

…keeping church and state as separate entities. In the months since I first contacted Epstein, I began to notice how the atheist-Christian debate was softening into a real dialogue. While there was plenty of material berating believers for their faith, I began to receive books such as The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality and An Atheist Defends Religion: Why Humanity is Better Off with Religion Than Without It. Writers like these were trying to h…