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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…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…age prompted creationist and pro-intelligent design organizations like the Seattle-based Discovery Institute to claim victory “for science education,” but science educators say it actually opens the door to junk science. 2. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Religion (In The Scientific Community)? One of the most heated debates to take place this year didn’t get much attention from the mainstream media, but boiled over on the science blogs. (And crea…

Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

By Vincent Lloyd

…School, Willie James Jennings at Yale Divinity School, and Brian Bantum at Seattle Pacific University have been rightly praised for their penetrating scholarship. They are interested in revisiting the fundamental ideas of Christianity in dialogue with Black literature and culture. While this is a welcome development, it remains to be seen how scholarship addressing deep and important questions of faith translates to a secular public, and particula…

Scopes Redux DOA Pending Expert Input

By Lauri Lebo

…ould include, “Biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” Scientists say the wording is a ploy to sneak creationism into science class. Once again, the bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. The bill is not yet officially dead, however. According to the Sentinel, “the Senate Education Committee wound up adjourning Wednesday night with some other…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…formed evangelical church planters that he co-founded, removed him and his Seattle based Mars Hill Church from the organization’s membership, and asked him to step down as a pastor. Following this news, Lifeway Christian Stores, the second largest distributor of Christian books, announced it will no longer carry his books, and Mars Hill cancelled their annual signature Resurgence Conference scheduled for October 2014. Driscoll continues to find hi…

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…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…n the United States. I recently was barred from speaking in Archdiocese of Seattle. This has gone back since I entered the Jesuits in 1982, but it has gotten really bad in the last ten years as the Catholic Church leaders in the United States became more and more involved in the Republican Party, supporting the war in Iraq. Very few Jesuits espouse nonviolence either. We run 28 universities, all of whom train young people to kill through ROTC. The…

Atheist Asked By Wolf Blitzer If She Thanked the Lord After OK Tornado Honored

By Becky Garrison

…g her a “Grace Under Pressure” award, as well as giving her son a toy microphone. In her talk and subsequent interview, she debunked Time columnist Joe Klein’s assertion that humanists did not contribute to the Oklahoma disaster relief efforts. However, she compared the lack of organized humanist organizations and secular groups like the Red Cross working on the ground to the clearly identified Christian groups who could be spotted sifting through…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

…oning.” The bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes intelligent design. The Senate version is scheduled for the Senate Education Committee on April 20. In March, the Sensuous Curmudgeon predicted that of the record number of creationist bills that have been introduced in states across the country, the Tennessee bill would be the one to become law. So far, he’s…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…dem, and Mark Driscoll (the disgraced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and has plans to expand “throughout the world.” Interestingly, perhaps, Jeff Sessions attended Bible study with Drollinger the day before his ill-fated Romans…