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The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet

By Jay Michaelson

…or medical communities who has a different point of view. Shockingly for a New York Times piece, Black is never challenged on his views by Broad or by anyone else. Black’s own views are also distorted. If you read carefully, he argues that certain yoga postures are particularly problematic, that yoga is not for everyone, that pre-fab sequences are a mistake, and that it’s important not to be hyper-athletic about it. In a subsequent interview he ha…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…rs until, as I read it, public pressure was simply too great. Kudos to the New York Times and other media outlets that will not let this case fade away. I doubt sincerely that the clergy fellows will cut him loose for prosecution in other locations. They have already hedged their bets by saying that it is not clear that the new 2013 Vatican guidelines can be applied retroactively in this case. Problems of double jeopardy remain of course. In short…

My Lent: Ashes, Addiction, and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

By Debra Dean Murphy

…hristians, the juxtaposition is as liberating as it is instructive: we are dying, yet we live. Death may be at our doorstep but it cannot steal our substance. We are alive in Christ, alive in one another, and alive in the hope that death (and hell) do not have the last word….

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…l take Sophie away from him, either romantically (Sophie makes eyes at the new lodger more than a few times) or geographically (after the Doctor encourages her to become an animal rescue volunteer in a faraway land). The Doctor then shows up Craig with some brilliant plays at his weekly football game (that’s soccer to you), and, when Craig sleeps past his alarm one morning, the Doctor stands in for him at his job (with great success). Craig’s frus…

Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…celebration in 2008 and was told to recant his actions. To date, no final word has come down on his refusal to do so. Maybe this law is it. More likely, it is a warning to other priests who might break clerical ranks and stand with feminists in ministry. Here’s hoping they have the courage and good sense. Third, by drawing attention to women’s ordination, even if it is a tactic to distract attention from the pedophilia crimes and cover-ups, the V…

Christian Voter Guide: Jesus is Wrong on the Issues and Wrong for America

By Daniel Schultz

…hen they were unjust, and subjected himself to them meekly. Not exactly a crusading culture warrior, then. Is truthful;—High marks here. Jesus never was a liar. “Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No”; anything more than this comes from the evil one.” Hates covetousness.—Again, Jesus does well by this measure, having a strong anti-covetousness platform. On the other hand, he does have an explicitly redistributionist economic program. No word on h…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…mittee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, in New York. The World Congress of Families’ 2018 global summit will be held in Moldova. According to Tass, “Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has accepted the invitation from President Igor Dodon of Moldova to make a pastoral visit to the republic” during the WCF gathering in September. “Dodon sayd Kirill I and he had discussed the importance of protecting and conso…

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

…from a fake news site. Not like Jon Stewart fake news. Or even Onion fake news. Actual fake news. “By the way,” Stetzer added, “if you are a pastor you should already know that no one can make you officiate anything. In fact, you can refuse to officiate an interracial marriage. You’d be an idiot and a racist, but you wouldn’t be arrested.” The other “story” Stetzer highlighted claimed “a sodomite ex-con turned author, Bradley La Shawn Fowler” sue…

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…Americans, those without advanced education, conservatives, and those who live in rural areas. So far, this is about what you would expect. People with better access to (and trust in) information sources and the medical system are more willing to get vaccinated. Those who don’t, aren’t—or at least they’re waiting to see what happens. Also not a shock: for most traditions, regular church attendance increases openness to vaccination. For some tradi…

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

…e with the very same fat cats Warren denounces; that lurches to proclaim Jerusalem the one and only capital of Israel even when it knows how catastrophically wrongheaded this is to the cause of justice and peace in the Middle East; that is quite obviously afraid to talk candidly about grinding poverty in America for fear of shattering the illusion that we’re all just middle-class folks about to recover fully from a GOP-induced hangover; and one th…