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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…d out. Scalpers hawked tickets for hundreds of dollars over their purchase price and artists who had been working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glance at my car. But the Greeters’ enthusiastic reception remained the same. These Greeters, a dusty n…

Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…ategories such discourse is separating us into. As we all gradually become numbers in the triad of infected, dead, and recovered, we’re also pulled into the spiritual warfare of submission, defeat, and salvation. One can preach that Satan is trying to trick people into staying away from churches. But clerics like Burton must remain accountable for the social pressure, the communal alienation, and the feeling of guilt on the shoulders of the believ…

Catholic Bishops’ Theological Mistakes on Abortion Come at a High Price

By Mary E. Hunt

The facts do not seem to be in dispute: a man from Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil raped his ten-year-old niece. By the time her pregnancy was discovered, her local jurisdiction declared that she was four days over the limit and the fetus was scant grams over the weight permitted for an abortion. She was transported 1000 miles to Recife, Pernambuco where she had an abortion as allowed under the circumstances by Brazilian law. In a decent, just wo…

Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

By Seth Perry

…pointedly, amounts to what Mormons would recognize as bearing a testimony—Price goes off to convert the warlords, only to end up defeated, his Book of Mormon lodged in an uncomfortable place. In a fit of rebellion he winds up strung out on coffee. Ultimately, Price is brought around by the Ugandans’ play, which he calls the greatest religious experience of his life, “even though it was obviously based on made-up crap”—a line that brought the hous…

Christian Militia Arrests and the Price of Violent Rhetoric (Plus: Rachel Maddow Video)

By Lauri Lebo

Yesterday’s news about the FBI raids and nine arrests of the Michigan-based Hutaree Christian Militia got me thinking of Ann Coulter’s recent remarks in Canada to a 17-year-old Muslim girl that all Muslims should be banned from flying on planes. Coulter then told the girl that if she couldn’t get where she wanted to go on her magic carpet, she should “take a camel.” The details of the militia, which had been planning an epic war with the Anti-Chr…

“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ill be involved. These are positive things,” Cherlow told JTA. United Arab Emirates: Lebanese Gay Man Faces Death Penalty Earlier this month a 21-year-old gay man from Lebanon was arrested after posting a photograph in drag online and is facing the death penalty for charges that include offering sexual services to other men. France: New Gender ID Law, New Anti-Marriage-Equality Protests The Associated Press reports that tens of thousands of people…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lectorate than it is with straight voters. LePen’s Party, which includes a number of openly gay officials, still pledges to roll back the marriage equality law in favor of civil unions. As AP notes, LePen is not the only nationalist leader who uses fear of radical Islamist violence to attract LGBT support: In the Netherlands, Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders said that his party, which is hostile to Muslims and wants to halt immigration, shou…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…ans would be attracted to, appreciate and consider careers in science (the number is decreasing annually). I bet we’d have more productive conversation among students and leaders of science and religion around the many profound issues in our nation that engage both: abortion, medical care, stem cells, homosexuality, and genomic research. The battle rhetoric would fade and, more than likely, movies like Expelled wouldn’t be made in the first place….