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Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…ingle church. After all of this research on Driscoll and Mars Hill, I know mimicry when I see and hear it; and the graphics, music, and method of storytelling that shape the narrative and experience of the podcast are clearly produced by someone familiar with the milieu in which Driscoll accrued followers and celebrity, while cultivating and capitalizing on its ethos (with some help from the blueprint my book provides, without crediting me beyond…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…’s emphasis on withdrawal is Dreher’s solution. While statistics about the number of families who homeschool for religious reasons can be hard to find, it’s clear that beyond Dreher’s own Orthodox and Catholic examples, homeschooling, homesteading and a return to agrarian lifestyles—mostly lived out in deeply isolated areas—remain a topic of interest in many Christian communities. A cursory Google search for “Christian homeschooling” or “Christian…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…e and told me the biblical story of Noah’s ark. Then he told me God had promised never again to destroy the world by water. The symbol of that promise, he said, is the rainbow. For a brief moment, everything in this world disappeared. Nothing remained except for the joy and the mercy of that divine promise. Still, by the time I was a teenager, I had ventured to other churches to seek the varieties of Christian faith expressions. In high school, I…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ide representatives from a number of anti-trans organizations, including familiar faces like the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation. The “Changed Movement” began, according to its website, when Williams and Woning testified along with 30 others and delivered a book with stories of “ex-gays” to California Senators who were, at the time, considering a ban on conversion therapy. Subsequently, the story goes, “heartened by [his] conve…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…to talk more about religion on the campaign trail, or elected officials aiming to mix religion into policy debates. A majority of those who see religion’s influence as positive, and a majority of Republicans and voters who lean Republican, believe there has been “too little” religious talk from politicians. Those figures are up five points from 2010 among the religion-is-positive respondents, and up nine points among the Republicans and Republica…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…of the judiciary,” he said. Chung also emphasized that Kim hosted an academic seminar on homosexuality. Kim, if approved, could designate judges supportive of homosexuality to be Constitutional Court justices. Under law, the Supreme Court‘s chief is supposed to name three of the Constitutional Court’s nine justices. Brazil: In victory for evangelical psychologist, Court reverses of 18-year-old ban on gay ‘cure’ therapy A court overturned an 18-ye…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…dding, “Man, woman and child is of the highest order. That union cannot be mimicked by any other combination.” Bermudans voted recently to reject civil unions and marriage equality, but based on the voter turnout the question was officially considered undecided. Mexico: New national LGBT movement launches Mexico as a new national LGBT movement, The Movement for Equality in Mexico, where religious conservatives are leading resistance to President E…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…eing together will not die, cannot die, will continue. My Sunday morning semi-wake semi-sleep semi-dream state wherein last year’s Charleston shooting merged with this past weekend’s Orlando massacre was more than a dream. My dream condition/wake condition, my condition of being almost-sleep/almost-woke, spoke something true. It spoke a dream-reality of black church-LGBT solidarity in a shared relation, a genesis shared. This condition awakened me…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…n Silva Menendez, 25 years old Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 years old Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old Cory James Connell, 21 years old Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old Juan Chevez-Martinez,…