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Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…DC bio, and does not seem to have eulogized Weslin.) Twenty years later, a number of Weslin’s Atlanta cohort—like Shannon, Dinwiddie and Bray—would become chief supporters of Scott Roeder, the Operation Rescue follower who shot Dr. Tiller at his church in 2009. The 1988 arrestees were housed separately for 40 days, resulting in the creation of an ad-hoc movement school that the prisoners compared to the civil rights schools of Birmingham jails in…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…be called the Federation of Islamic Associations of the United States and Canada (FIA). The first president of the FIA, Abdallah Igram, a World War II veteran, approached President Eisenhower in 1953 to ask, “Why is there no symbol for the Islamic faith on a Muslim serviceman’s identification tags so that he might be given fitting burial rites if he’s killed in action?” His query led to the use of an “I” on the dog tags of American Muslim soldier…

“How the Mormons Make Money” Speaks Volumes About Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ist resorts; and citrus, sod, timber, and cattle operations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. As a religious organization, the LDS Church is exempt from paying taxes on leased real estate properties and donated stock holdings. The LDS Church gives an estimated $52 million annually in humanitarian relief, about .7% of its annual income. Bloomberg notes by comparison that the United Methodist Church gives about 29% of…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…because we assimilate different individuals to a single national identity. Canada’s challenge with Quebecois separatism is closer to what Bosnia is threatened by; had we bothered to not expel, exterminate, or exclude American Indians, perhaps we’d know something of the challenge of balancing different peoples with distinct and longstanding identities. Which may explain why we’re so eager to force the Middle East into binaries, despite the evidence…

Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich

By Jay Michaelson

…ream community but also the US Senate, President Obama, the governments of Canada and Germany, and, most recently, Bob Costas in shouting a collective, outraged “WTF” at the International Olympic Committee for refusing to hold a minute of silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics forty years ago. I have yet to hear any rationale for the IOC’s intransigence on this point. Whatever one thinks of Israel, Pa…

Reuters probes LDS Church Wealth

By Joanna Brooks

…red to Seventh-Day Adventist strategy of building less expensive, smaller meetinghouses and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals. According to Reuters, Adventist growth rates are three times LDS growth rates. LDS Church finanical records from nations like Canada and Australia, which require more openness in charitable reporting, were used for the story. For its part, the LDS Church has responded to questions about its commitment to humanit…

Russian Zombies Follow in Pussy Riot Footsteps

By Joseph Laycock

…rst zombie walk was organized by Thea Felds (aka Thea Munster) of Toronto, Canada, in 2003. In the last decade zombie walks have become an international phenomenon. Last November, nearly 10,000 people assembled in Mexico City to imitate the living dead, though Russia has attempted to suppress the spreading zombie phenomenon. Yakovlev received permission from the city to organize a “Zombie Parade” earlier this summer, but his permit was revoked. It…

Hell Is (For) Other People

By Peter Laarman

Blame Canada for watering down our good old-time religion. Kevin Miller, originally of Saskatchewan, has made a terrifically provocative film called Hellbound? on the human urge to punish and how that urge gets projected onto our sense of what God is about. An opening sequence of Miller attempting to engage some mad-as-hell Westboro Baptists left me worrying, “Oh. He’s going to caricature the brimstoners. Not good.” But it soon becomes obvious th…

Disciples of Christ Church in Indiana Approves LBGT Inclusion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ion or the denomination. While the larger Disciples church in the U.S. and Canada affirmed in 2009 a policy that “does not include sexual orientation as a criterion for ordination, licensing/commissioning, or standing”—leading many to believe erroneously that ordination was open to LGBT members throughout the denomination—the congregational polity of the denomination requires that individual congregations affirm the policies recommended by the lar…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…authority” of her husband. As someone who married their same-sex spouse in Canada, I do not take marriage lightly. I intend for it to be a lifelong commitment—but the character of our union is one of equality, mutuality, and shared responsibility. No one “submits” to the “authority” of the other—we are in partnership, charting a life together. There must be give and take in any relationship, but marriage should always be about dreaming a life toge…