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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…BC, in writing, of its intent to attend the annual meeting and engage with participants about the “tangible harm” faith-based condemnation of LGBT people does, particularly to LGBT youth. He told RD that SBC leadership had responded and acknowledged FIA’s plans, and that during those exchanges, “we received no pushback.” He stressed that when they were removed, none of the activists were engaged in any form of direct action, protest, or confrontat…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…n spiritual and religious life that the spiritual life, that the spiritual path, is also the path of thriving and flourishing and healing. I don’t think it diminishes it. I don’t think it’s sacrosanct. I think it’s testimony. How can parents balance the desire to have critical, questioning kids with a wish to encourage thinking that may not be entirely rational, or that may involve perceptions of entities that can’t be materially explained? We hav…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ll there and it’s all unclear. All we know for a fact is that it all came apart very suddenly. On December 9, 2008, Bernie Madoff told his son, Mark, that he intended to pay out $173 million in holiday bonuses two months early. Deeply concerned, Mark revealed this to Andrew, who concluded that Madoff Securities should probably be re-named. The brothers descended upon their father in his office the next morning and demanded an explanation. Fearing…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…nity’s tepid reception of Kagan, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, issued a statement this afternoon that was silent on reproductive rights but merely noted, “We are confident that Kagan will bring the dedication and commitment that have marked her career with her to the highest court in the land.”) Ratzen, who also serves on the Advisory Council to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Pa…

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

By Alana Massey

…ew up in a household with four sons and three of us became priests. That’s part of my story and its still part of my thinking. My moral creed for all Christians does not require belief in a god; there’s a whole cultural development that’s very dependent on Judaism and it’s something that I treasure. Many of my sensitivities are still rooted in that tradition. This is a book called “Christianity Without God” but instead of the Gospels, you use the…

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

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…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 Council president Tony Perkins on April 30. Hoffman’s op-ed combines two common narratives about Chen and the Obama administration that have become popular on anti-abortion websites; that the Obama administration has betrayed Chen because it…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y’s homeland security alongside the military, police agencies and health departments. Of particular concern is a 2006 clause requiring the Office of Homeland Security to post a plaque that says the safety and security of the state “cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon almighty God” and to stress that fact through training and educational materials. Certainly, Christians are welcome to pray to God to keep them safe and secure, but to enlist…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…recommends—certificates that allow the most worthy and devoted Mormons to participate in the faith’s sacred temple rites. Nor was he all that comfortable with Melanie teaching Sunday School, even though she assured him she had no interest in making waves about the Proposition 8 debate—or any other controversial issue—in the class she taught each week. Facing the prospect of being denied access to the temple and resigning her Sunday School positio…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…illusion or, conversely, to manifest its reality. Brain imaging techniques participate in this larger historical framing of technology in those terms. Neurotheology, in other words, is one more species of what we might call techno-theologizing—a phenomenon that has flourished in Western culture, especially since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Take examples from both sides. The magic lantern was widely used by the end of the eighteenth c…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…r became the nonprofit Faith in Public Life (FIPL). With former Democratic party staffer Katie Paris leading its media outreach, FIPL is in the forefront of those shaping the media narrative about the new religious landscape: religious voters are no longer shackled to a “narrow agenda” of abortion and gay marriage, and are voting on a “broader agenda,” including poverty, the environment, and global HIV/AIDS. The Take Back America conference, the a…