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Interfaith Group to Political Candidates: Ditch Divisive Religious Appeals

By Sarah Posner

…Hindu American Foundation, Muslim Advocates, National Council of Churches USA, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Sikh Coalition, the Union for Reform Judaism, The United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society, and the United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries. UPDATE: Perhaps Franklin Graham could benefit from reading the statement as well. From Politico: Franklin Graham, the evangelist and son of B…

Religious Youth Activists Take to Hill for Comprehensive Sex Education

By Sarah Posner

…orking in coalition with Advocates for Youth, Catholics for Choice, Choice USA, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood, SIECUS, and the Sierra Club to lobby Congress to end funding of abstinence-only programs and fund comprehensive sex education. As part of its Sex Ed Month of Action, SYRF is encouraging activists to call their representatives on the Hill today. On the Senate side in particular, an amen…

Judge Denies Church Graduation Ceremonies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ch still contend that they can make the Cathedral religiously neutral, but USA Today points out that “de-Jesusing” the building would be tough, pointing to large crosses on the building’s roof and over the main entrance. The building itself is one large religious symbol that cannot be disguised as anything but. This is a huge, dove-shaped building with a lobby fountain shaped like Jesus’ tomb, with multi-story cross-emblazoned stained glass window…

Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…York metro area this week, I am still a lonely Jew on Thanksgivukkah. One USA Today headline phrased it perfectly: “Thanksgivukkah stirs thanks, angst.” As a scholar of religions, I see Thanksgivukkah as a phenomenon to unpack, not to judge. As a Jewish American, I am seduced by the joys and kitsch of this once-in-a-life time event … but it’s still not the Christmas tree I longed for as a child. Perhaps this is just another classic move of Jewish…

Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…o be ordained and the destruction of a child’s life; not to mention the thousands of people who have been abused by clergy. The public simply won’t buy it, and the end result is that the institutional Roman Catholic Church will look even more out of touch with reality than ever. I generally refrain from commenting on these matters without the document in front of me, but this is such a classic case of how church law is made—yes, like watching saus…

For Sale to the Highest Bidder: The Trail of Tammy’s Tears

By Jonathan L. Walton

…us and socially influential. The Bakkers even built a theme park, Heritage USA, in South Carolina that not only became one of the premier vacation spots in the nation, it also provided America with the image of the late Jerry Falwell sliding down a water slide while wearing his Sunday best. Unfortunately for their many devoted viewers, the Bakkers’ media reign came to an end in exactly a decade. In 1987 revelations of financial misappropriation an…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…as guardians of America’s moral culture, they preserved the idea that the USA was a nation with the soul of a church, and they did so in a way that helped to liberalize American society. A Continued Influence For the past half-dozen years I have felt the comeback coming, on the lecture circuit, where conference organizers ask me to represent liberal Protestantism. Sometimes the conference is an interreligious conversation sponsored by a Catholic…

A More Perfect Union

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…ly brokered by a minority of conservative clerics in the Episcopal Church, USA, as their firewall against Robinson. The conference is scheduled to convene again next month but Robinson won’t be in attendance as he has not been invited by the Archbishop of Canterbury. When a fellow bishop queried Robinson on the appropriateness of scheduling his civil union just prior to the conference, Robinson, knowing that no date in the worldwide Anglican Commu…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…has its own troubles concerning its handling of sexual assault cases. When USA Today contacted over 100 universities to request public records concerning Title IX complaints, Auburn was one of six who failed to comply. Auburn didn’t even respond to multiple requests for information, which it’s obligated to provide. Hugh Freeze’s story intersects with Liberty and Baylor universities, two vocally Christian universities with established reputations f…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

…anced for awhile at the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). At the urging of the denomination’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), a committee of the GA voted 36 to 11 to divest from three companies—Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard—because, as the IPMN puts it, they “profit from non-peaceful pursuits in the occupied Palestinian territories.” Yesterday, however, the GA rejected that measure, citing concerns that…