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An Evangelical Leader’s Lonely Fight to End an “Unholy Alliance” With the NRA

By Sarah Posner

…are,” is “feeling pretty lonely” after his press conference in Isla Vista, California, yesterday, calling on evangelicals to end what he calls their “unholy alliance” with the National Rifle Association. In an interview this morning, Schenck said that shortly after speaking in Isla Vista he learned of yesterday’s shooting at Seattle Pacific University, a small evangelical institution. “If you [evangelicals] think this was only happening in strange…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…s of the Ananda movement, a Hindu spiritual fellowship founded in northern California during the late 60s—only reinforced feelings of familiarity. There was Jemal, the dreadlocked, Yale-educated monk who waxed philosophic about the “sublime” benefits of a celibate lifestyle. There was Shivani, a Jewish girl from Ohio who joined the Ananda community in 1969 and never left. And there was Victor, the recent Stanford graduate who resided in a cave at…

All the Belly-‘eich’-ing

By Sarah Posner

…ndan Eich, who six years ago donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort in California, has generated much ink, some of it probably composed and published and read via Firefox (to make a statement) and some of it probably composed and published and read via another browser (to make a statement). Full disclosure: I use Chrome, only because I like it better. Not a political statement of any kind. Libertarian Conor Friedersdorf says the calls for Eic…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…n Mississippi, and potentially quite harmful. The professors are Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle of George Washington University, Carlos A. Ball of Rutgers University, Sarah Barringer of the University of Pennsylvania, Douglas NeJaime of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver of the University of Chicago Law School, Richard C. Schragger and Micah J. Schwartzman of the University of Virginia School of Law, Nelson Tebbe…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…ew on CNN, John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, warned Christians against doing yoga, referring to it as a “false religion.” At around the same time Pat Robertson issued a similar warning describing some aspects of it as “really spooky.” Even more recently Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, told a live audience that: “Yoga is demonic… It’s absolute paganism… Yoga and meditation…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…Rica and the Dominican Republic recently visited D.C., New York, Texas and California as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Activists from Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and other countries have traveled to the U.S. over the last year. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder also takes a global look at what he calls a new cold war over human rights, in which Russia becomes a more important ally to politician…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…litics—culminated in her announcement last fall that she would run for the California’s 33rd District Congressional seat. Williamson’s visit to my USC class on American spirituality was a boon for me, but it also served her purposes. District 33 cuts through some of the state’s wealthiest communities including Malibu, Beverly Hills and Palos Verdes, and Williamson would be speaking here to potential voters if not volunteers. Meanwhile, I’d have a…

RIP: Bishop Otis Charles and Rev. Robert Nugent

By Peter Montgomery

…dding ceremony with his partner in a San Francisco church, a marriage that California didn’t recognize. They married again in 2008 when same-sex marriage was legal in the state. Charles was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1951. He was an anti-war activist and served as president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusettss. Egelko reports that Charles came out in 1993 shortly after announcing his retirement, divorced his wife of 42 y…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…: in 1857 Mormons attacked a wagon train traveling across southern Utah to California from an area in Arkansas where Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt had recently been murdered. Whether motivated by fear, retribution or greed, it was an utterly savage slaughter: about 120 unarmed men, women and children were systematically murdered, after which the smallest children were adopted, sometimes by the men they’d watched kill their parents and siblings. A…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…and I was the only person on the crew who wasn’t undocumented. In southern California, Mormon parents of wayward kids sent their sons to pick pineapples in Hawaii. Were watermelons the Arizona version? [Laughs.] It wasn’t like that. My dad grew up on a farm and wanted me to have the same experience, so I spent my summers in Phoenix doing manual labor. From it I came to realize that the hardest working people I’d ever known were undocumented. An…