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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…ommentary continues on, other figures with (arguably) more longevity and influence continue their assault on Barack Obama and what they see as the decline of Christian America. To wit: the Texas intellectual entrepreneur David Barton, who provides the footnotes for the “war on religion” thesis that currently has captivated the right. Most recently, Barton’s post, “America’s Most Biblically-Hostile President,” details a theme that has become known…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…sexuality researcher, Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, who has researched U.S. conservatives’ influence on African LGBTQ laws since 2008. “By signing the law, Museveni is strengthening his political base in Uganda among evangelical churches, while blaming the international community’s condemnation of the law for cuts to incoming foreign aid. Through this act, Museveni has declared war, and sanctioned the systematic persecution of sexual minorities. It is he…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…erence. “I have been threatened with expulsion and exiled by so many conservative Christians because of my desire to build bridges and ask questions about what we believe and how we live. It was a familiar feeling of rejection because of who I was, and a clear indicator that I would never be welcome as an LGBT+ person in the Southern Baptist Convention.” Robertson contends that FIA had informed senior leadership at SBC, in writing, of its intent t…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…over time. Spirituality is an extraordinary protection against the most prevalent forms of suffering. Young people in the first two decades [of life] very rarely die of cancer or diabetes. They die of risk-taking and suicide, things like that. And there’s nothing in the medical sciences as robust and protective against the most serious forms of suffering and risk as a personal spirituality. There’s the term “spirituality,” as we use in ordinary co…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…commitment that he was looking for a nominee that supported the right ofprivacy, specifically reproductive rights, and this nominee is consistent with that commitment of his and her statements when she was before the Senate on the Solicitor General confirmation. So we feel comfortable about her commitment to reproductive rights, to Roe v. Wade, and to stare decisis, and we feel confident about President Obama’s commitment to find a justice that wo…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…to atheism than its more dismissive predecessors. RD spoke with Maguire by phone about his latest book and the future of belief. What was the impetus for undertaking this after a long career as a priest and theologian who was once a believer? I started out as the absolute true believer. I believed everything the Vatican taught. One of the things that helped me was working in a parish. I started to meet real people and to discover that some of the…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…NFPA repeatedly raised Chen’s case with the Chinese government, but to no avail. The UNFPA rejects coercive population control tactics—and doesn’t support abortion services of any kind—yet critics still maintain that it indirectly supports China’s coercive population control regime: “Earlier this year American taxpayers funneled $35 mill to UNFPA, an outfit that supports policies Chen has sacrificed his safety fighting,” tweeted Family Research Co…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…was offended and let the email sender know. It led to a rich and powerful phone conversation later that day where we both came to an agreement that, if followed logically, the examples tell a story of a God who is either capricious or lacking in any real power. If God can put small delays in the path of a few people headed for the Twin Towers that day, why not do that to all of them? If God has the power to save some, why not save all? Why not pe…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…, and as she researched the legendary origins of the holiday—named for St. Valentine, who was jailed for defying a Roman imperial edict against performing marriages—Melanie could not help but recall the LDS Church’s efforts to ban same-sex marriage. In 2008, when LDS Church leaders asked members to support the Proposition 8 campaign in California, Melanie did as so many other observant Mormons: she searched her heart and mind and prayed earnestly…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…me in the SPR threw themselves behind a new contraption called the “psycho-phone” through which the inventors claimed to be hearing the voices of angels. The psychophone no doubt sounds absurd, but I can’t say that it sounds much more far-fetched than a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Both demonstrate the enduring cultural impulse toward techno-theologizing. However much neuroscientists might want to forswear an interest in the metaphysics of th…