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Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…members may need professional counseling. When appropriate, bishops should contact LDS Social Services to identify resources to provide such counseling in harmony with gospel principles. If members feel same-gender attraction but do not engage in any homosexual behavior, leaders should support and encourage them in their resolve to live the law of chastity and to control unrighteous thoughts. These members may receive Church callings. If they are…

Open Letter to Creflo Dollar

By Lerone A. Martin

…er structure was clouded in a questionable history of inappropriate sexual contact with children? Or would you seek to place your family’s treasures, time, and talents elsewhere? Would YOU tell your catholic neighbors to send their children back to the same parish and priest that allowed children to be sexually abused? Would you tell them its only a “wreck?” Or would you tell them to find another church home? Those who left New Birth came to y…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…s alike. I also like that there is a woman in a white headscarf making eye contact with the photographer behind the central figure. Something was happening in that space where Alland set up his camera. What’s your next book? My next book will describe polyculturalism at a larger scale, and is inspired by African American Islam and the long and rich history of representing Islam in American popular culture. While there are extensive literatures on…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…holic bishops in the state have also stepped up pressure on their flock to contact delegates in opposition to the measure. It seems the pressure has given some delegates reason enough to push the pause button and not make Maryland the sixth state to recognize marriage equality for its gay and lesbian citizens. It could be seen as a defeat, or a cowardly display by supporters—but Equality Maryland sees the move as an opportunity to do more educatio…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…possible to travel between them. If we understand your work correctly, the contact between those planes comes at a sacred center, which also links our sense of earthly order with some symbolic experience of chaos. Yes, archaic religious people did not fear chaos, because their sacred symbols convinced them that order and chaos are not ultimately enemies. At the sacred center there is a coincidence of opposites that harmonizes the two. But modern p…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…et out the vote efforts in southern Alabama: The Mobile NAACP crunched the numbers and showed local pastoral leadership that whatever they had done in recent years to turn out voters wasn’t working. The pastors then pushed for and got resources to do congregation-wide robo calls and voter reg tables at church events. There are legitimate concerns about churches getting involved this closely with a political campaign, whether Republican or Democrat…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…ered that I was still in ihram, and I resisted my temptation to kill it on contact! To understand Muzdhalifah, think back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), when there were NO electrical lights, NO paved roads, NO phones. There was no way for anyone to know that a caravan had arrived until it was pretty near to its destination. Then a missionary was sent to alert the people of the town that that caravan had nearly arrived and was camped in…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…ith every outward step, as our universe and our ignorance grows, so do the number of potential space alien hideouts. So does the belief that there must be someone out there. So every time I read about the discovery of a new Earth-like planet or read about NASA’s upcoming Kepler planet-finding mission or watch a movie like Contact, I grow excited over—and, like Brahe, even a little afraid of—the vast unknown. My mind boggles. What’s really out ther…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…from Kadugli, where the worst of the atrocities occurred, and is in daily contact with members of his congregation. In his prepared statement at the hearing (as in an earlier interview with RD) he emphasized respect for the pluralist culture of the Nubans, in which Muslims and Christians maintain a good relationship. “We all belong to one human family, whatever our national, ethnic or political differences,” he wrote in his prepared testimony. “…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…Kulture. There are Taqwacore groups in Scotland and London, but no one has contacted us to do a tour. Most of them discourage us about setting foot in Bradford lest we become the biggest pariahs since Salman fucking Rushdie. SK: See BU. HR: Isn’t every good qalandar a pariah? BU: True. Q: Much is being made of TQ, but heavy metal, if not punk, have been a part of the musical politics of the Arab World for some time (for example, see here). What is…