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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…o 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 to the public largely through the Gingrich/Santorum bloc: that Barack Obama has led the most actively anti-Christian administration in American history. This is a talking point w…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…ed, supported, and cheered on by American religious right figures who are looking overseas for opportunities to stop “the gay agenda.” “There is a deplorable common thread that ties together these examples of the global oppression of LGBT people: Christian complicity,” writes Paul Raushenbush at Huffington Post. As an ordained Christian pastor, I am angered by my co-religionists’ collaboration and complicity with these laws that specifically targe…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…FIA co-founder Mitchell Gold), that he would call the police if they set foot on hotel property again. For Robertson, whose nonprofit Nomad Partnership had teamed up with FIA to attend the annual SBC meeting, the pointed rejection felt familiar. Robertson attended SBC-affiliated schools and churches “off and on” for eight years, and was a youth group leader at baptist churches in Illinois and Maryland. In 2014, he was formally condemned by the SB…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…ot speak to you at all,” Lisa Miller writes near the beginning of her new book, The Spiritual Child. “But it is foundational to your child.” Miller is a psychologist at Columbia University whose research focuses on how personal spiritual experiences shape the development of children and adolescents. The Spiritual Child Lisa Miller St. Martin’s Press (May 5, 2015) In The Spiritual Child, Miller draws on decades of research to argue that spiritualit…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…id, “President Obama made a real clear promise and 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 Pre…

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

By Alana Massey

Professor Daniel C. Maguire’s latest book, Christianity Without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative, is an ambitious project that functions as both a primer on the logical and ethical failures of theism and as a reimaging of the biblical narrative to meet the great moral challenges of our day. As a theologian and former priest who teaches ethics at Marquette University, a Jesuit school, Maguire fills a critical g…

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

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…e law of the land and stop forced abortions and sterilizations. As a “barefoot lawyer” Chen has fought to expand the rule of law on various issues, including environmental protection and the rights of disabled citizens; though it’s important to point out that his struggle doesn’t map neatly onto the U.S. abortion debate. No Help From Beijing Born in a rural village in Shandong Province, Chen, who lost his sight as a child, nevertheless managed to…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ointment. God’s “saving” and “miracle” working in our lives can sometimes look and feel likes God abandoning us. God works as God works – bringing good from tragedy and comforting us when things go wrong. If the automakers don’t get a “miracle” and go under, or Kentucky gets attacked by terrorists – it’s God who gets the bum rap for not “saving” or “protecting” us, when it should be the automakers taking the hit for lousy business practices, and K…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…felt directed to do it differently. So she sat down in a friend’s living room and held up for the camera a picture her three-year-old son had colored at nursery on Sunday bearing the caption: “I will love others.” “Pictures like these are the reasons I go to church,” she said. “So 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-…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…to less dramatic feelings of sensed presences. It turns out, though, that hooking up a hardboiled atheist to a machine, known as the transcranial magnetic stimulator, produced no such experiences. “It was a great disappointment,” Dawkins related after 40 minutes on the machine. “Though I joked about the possibility, I of course never expected to end up believing in anything supernatural. But I did hope to share some of the feelings experienced by…