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Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…gion and culture at Oregon State University, and an expert on faith and end-of-life issues. The Catholic position on physician-assisted death contradicts its support of such pain management, known as palliative sedation, he said. “If the religious tradition had towed the line firmly and said that death can’t be hastened under any circumstances, it wouldn’t have allowed palliative sedation death to occur,” he said. That may be a sign that even the…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…ture in desperate need of transcendent redemption, rather than an imperfect-but-necessary tool for productive life between now and the Second Coming. But power doesn’t have to be synonymous with McConnellian levels of cynicism, ruthlessness, and domination. It can be exactly what we saw in Alabama, which is to say, using the leverage available to effect change. Widely-distributed power, even if thin, can work wonders. It’s important to note that t…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…A year ago Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr., waved away then-candidate Trump’s boast about committing sexual assault, which was recorded during a 2005 “Access Hollywood” interview, by saying, “We’re all sinners, every one of us. We’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t.” Trump himself admits he’s “no angel.” No president is, but few if any have lied, insulted, or put personal gain at odds with the national interest as persistently as…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…icial for the LDS Church. Together, we did the same program twice: two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable polygamy question came, I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to convey in a soundbite the terrible complexity of Mormonism’s relationship to polygamy: how while it is true that Mor…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…round the question of Rev. Cook’s appointment, quoting the first Ambassador-at-Large, Thomas Farr, who called Cook an outstanding pastor, but also lamented her lack of experience. Yet her friend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lauded her as “an experienced religious leader with a passion for human rights and an impressive record of public service.” Coming from the Secretary of State, that is high praise indeed. Yet praise is not enough to tur…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…ontemplate suicide. The documentary relates the story of Stuart Matis, a 32-year-old gay Mormon who, in February 2000, shot himself on the steps of the LDS chapel in Los Altos, California. Matis’ parents issued a statement saying that after their son’s suicide, they finally felt at peace. During the account of Matis’ death, the stillness in the Salt Lake City theater where I saw the film was punctuated by sobs from the audience. Weeping and exclam…

Reuters probes LDS Church Wealth

By Joanna Brooks

…religion.” The story also focuses on the LDS Church strategy of buildling high-cost temples around the world, as compared to Seventh-Day Adventist strategy of building less expensive, smaller meetinghouses and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals. According to Reuters, Adventist growth rates are three times LDS growth rates. LDS Church finanical records from nations like Canada and Australia, which require more openness in charitable repo…

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

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…roductive Justice Rev. Mitzi J. Smith, PhD, J Davison Philips Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, the Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brite Divinity School Rev. Theresa S. Thames, DMin, Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel, Princeton University…

“Religious Liberty” Catholics Reap What They Sow in Trump

By Patricia Miller

…g a vision of a country undergoing a moral armageddon and overrun by an out-of-control federal government, a crisis so severe that George and fellow conservatives threatened civil disobedience rather than comply with unjust laws. They declared in the 2009 Manhattan Declaration that they would refuse to “comply with any edict that purports to compel” them to participate in abortion, same-sex marriage or violates their sense of religious freedom. It…

Focus on the Family Goes to Bat for Bullies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e strong suit for FotF and its cohorts. Remember, these are the people who feel okay sending their children into the sexually charged atmosphere of high school armed with nothing more than a simple purity pledge, even though studies have shown them to ineffective. So, it was no shock to see Cushman continuing to use broad platitudes to deny reality during the interview. Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Networ…