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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…To that end, we make the following demands: Public Policy: The removal of military equipment from our neighborhoods as tools for policing. ○ The end of the 1033 Program, whereby Congress transfers excess military equipment to local police agencies for use in counter-drug activities. The immediate work to create police reform initiatives as well as community oriented policing methodologies to include the following: ○ A revision of police union con…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…bers. It provided them with videos touting intelligent design, which board members required science teachers to watch. But when board members wanted to pursue intelligent design, DI backed up, instead urging the watered-down “teach the controversy.” But just as in the case of Livingston, Dover board members correctly interpreted that code language like “intelligent design” and “teach the controversy” were merely other ways of saying “creationism.”…

Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…alk About Religion (Oxford, January 2020), Laycock interviewed several TST members who were active military. “Nearly all of them had a story about being harassed by a commanding officer who was essentially using his position to proselytize to subordinates. In his estimation, “These TST members in the armed forces are willing to risk damage to their careers because of their religious convictions. These are not just ‘trolls’ out to amuse themselves….

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…this same group was establishing relationships with returning soldiers and military family members who opposed the war. I suggested that we might ask congregations whether they would care to hear from a service member or a military family member, someone who would simply tell their story, rather than hear from one of the well-briefed peaceniks. My suggestion was rejected, as this would have deprived the peaceniks of a chance to sound off about how…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…ost conservative—has problems as well. The SBC had been almost flat on the membership charts for a number of years, but now it’s actually started to lose members. In 2013, the SBC claimed 15,735,640 members, and in 2014, that number fell by 236,467 to 15,499,173—that’s a 1.5 percent decline. However, on this stat alone, the claim could be made that churches are simply clearing out the cobwebs and tidying up their membership rolls so their numbers…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ivil right and a human right… “I have a big commitment to equality for all members of society. It’s what my life has been about. We have discriminated against members of the gay and lesbian community for too long. This is a way of embracing them as full members of society.” From Fr. Day’s article in Doctrine and Life, a Dominican publication: “Marriage as a sacrament is the proper concern of the church. If the Yes vote succeeds in Ireland, it will…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…T people. Munson sent word out across the Mormon grapevine, through email, phone, and Facebook, inviting fellow churchgoing and believing Mormons to join her at the Pride Parade in Sunday dress. And Mormons responded by the hundreds, arriving at the parade route yesterday morning in their church clothes—dress shirts and ties for men, dresses for women. Some carried scriptures in hand. Others pushed their children in strollers, or carried them on t…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…o why is this church that has taught me so much about my Savior asking its members for their time and their money and their votes to deny other people marriage?” Her two-minute video made the website, then the local news in Salt Lake City, and within days an official at LDS Church headquarters placed a concerned phone call to Melanie S.’s local clergy. Three times her bishop met with Melanie to discuss the video. Because she had affiliated with “M…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…reported AP, which said “It was not clear how many of those arrested were members of Georgian March, an anti-immigrant and anti-gay rights group which claims to be protecting the “purity” of society in the Caucasus nation. Its members also called for the football federation’s entire leadership to resign because the federation had supported Kashia.” Many Georgian Internet users changed their profile pictures on social networks in support of Kashia…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…nant theology. What is that? This is one of the church teachings that most members really don’t follow, and in fact I hadn’t thought much about it for at least the last 15 years of my ministry. But the average Adventist will say that heaven will not be filled with just Adventists—but the doctrine remains that if you don’t adhere to Adventists teachings, you may not be saved. I dealt with this theology by just not preaching on it. You describe your…