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Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ah, which ranks in the top five of U.S. states in teen suicide, though the numbers have not been verified. In response to the Mama Dragons report, church officials mourned the deaths and called on churches and family members to make LGBT youth feel welcome. Tanzania: Activist Profiled The latest “world voices” feature from Alturi tells the story of James Ouma, an LGBTI activist who speaks “against a growing religious backlash in Tanzania while he…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…’s cosmic enemies. Together with sermons, radio and television ministries, websites, Christian schooling and homeschooling, nonfiction books and magazines, the novels are part of an alternative information ecosystem that trains conservative white Christians in the apocalyptic sensibility conveyed by the book of Ephesians, which gives Peretti’s novel its title: that believers “do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against…

You Are Not Your Star Sign

By Spencer Dew

…proving that Scorpios were the safest drivers, Virgos the worst. In second-best spot were the Ophiuchuses of the world, those being folks born in the thirteenth month, under the thirteenth sign, a guy with a big snake in his arms. Ophiuchus has long been part of sidereal astrology (dominant in India, among other places), but absent from the traditionally twelve-signed tropical system most popular with American newspapers until now, with the revise…

Skepticism Over O’Donnell’s Dabbling in Witchcraft

By John W. Morehead

…and a satanic altar, allegedly with blood on it. This statement includes a number of elements that reflect evangelical stereotypes and misrepresentations, including an equation of Witchcraft with Satanism, and a misunderstanding of Satanism as a spirituality of ritual sacrifice. Again, these misunderstandings are also found in popular evangelical folklore as well as some of the more extreme literature and websites on the topic indicating that she…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…anizations have formed around the most prominent sightings and hundreds of websites are devoted to interpreting Marian prophecies. Generally, the Church is dubious of such claims. Only a handful of apparitions have met the Church’s standards for approval and even this has been conditional. Major sightings in places like Lourdes and Fatima have been deemed “worthy of belief”—meaning that their veracity is not a point of Catholic doctrine—but that t…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…us, and those who still need convincing, there has been a proliferation of websites aimed at helping Christians enjoy godly sex. Some, such as Intimacy in Marriage, are aimed at giving advice to Christian women, while others, like Hot, Holy and Humorous, give lighthearted advice intended to “reclaim sexuality for our marriages as God intended.” There’s sex-positive, though, and then there’s…pornography. Restoring Christian Sexuality, (definitely N…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…hmic-uncanny—that sense that there’s an actual truth out there, encoded in numbers and data trails, that few of us can see or understand, and that contains a realer picture of our lives than even we know. And those select people who can tap that hidden reality have a special aura of power. AL: Yes! Although for some reason I have no problem with people who tap into the hidden reality of physics to make magical machines like the one I’m typing on….

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Catholic ‘Liberal’ Hails Return of Anti-Semitic Group

By Anthea Butler

…had documented a large amount of anti-Semitic material on the SSPX society websites, in five languages. The editor of the Joods Actueel went on to tell Haaretz that they were archiving the sites, despite the fact that the SSPX was diligently scrubbing them to remove traces of the anti-Semitic material. The Vatican may get the SSPX back into communion with the Catholic Church, but they will not be able to scrub the mouth of Bishop Richard Williamso…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…st time from strangers on the internet, in venues ranging from anti-Mormon websites to scholarship by respected Mormon historians. Even I have received email from parents who relate that their kids have stopped identifying as Mormon after encountering information about Joseph Smith’s polygamy for the first time on the internet. For many, the sense of betrayal by a trusted institution that appears to be withholding information about its history is…

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

…d in September to block Grindr and is reviewing more than 80 LGBT apps and websites…. “All news and information is dominated by Westerners, by outsiders — they intentionally aim to influence our mind, our way of thinking,” warned Said Aqil Siradj, chairman of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, the 91-million-member Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), said during an August speech. Reuters reports that the intensifying anti-gay sentiment could “hamper effor…