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“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

Charisma magazine reports: A Sioux City, Iowa pastor, prominent in the defeat of three Iowa Supreme Court justices last year for their same-sex marriage ruling, announced today that a hip-hop video calling Newt Gingrich “the GOP’s Kim Kardashian for his many infidelities on marriage—gay, straight and his own” would be delivered, via text messaging starting Thursday, to every registered Republican or non-aligned Iowa voter with a cell phone on rec…

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The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

Oakland minister Harold Camping is betting that the world will end at the close of the work week—although he does seem quite a bit less certain this time around.  Earlier this year, Camping captured the intrigue of North American cynics, believers, and the generally curious alike with his end-of-days prediction and the rapture of all repentant Christians on May 21, 2011. Those he managed to convince donated tens of millions of dollars from their…

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Common Ground on Gays? Like Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

I sure hope Cody Sanders has thick skin. He’s in for one heck of a beating after publishing an op-ed over at the Associated Baptist Press asking if common ground can be found on the issue of homosexuality. The common ground he proposes? Liberal and conservative churches joining forces to end violence against gays and lesbians: This common ground might stem from a basic recognition that LGBT people are created in the image of God coupled with the…

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As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

In Florida, a state senate committee wants to make it illegal to cause discomfort to white people. This bill, which reads like a scene from 1984, is a doozy. You can, and should, read the full text of it here. The bill purports to “protect individual freedoms and prevent discrimination in the workplace and in public schools.” But it then proceeds to define “individual freedoms” and “discrimination” in ways that are unrecognizable to the plain, hi…

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Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke

By Robert P. Jones

In this fourth episode of Progressive Religious Voices, Hozan Alan Senauke, Soto Zen priest at the Berkeley Zen Center and program director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship talks about the place of socially engaged Buddhism in the emerging progressive religious movement. Senauke talks about the resources engaged Buddhism brings to the fundamental task of trying not to live life “at the expense of others” : To me the Buddhist precepts, they boil d…

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Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

Richard Blanco, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan photographer Eny Roland Hernandez’s large-scale portraits of LGBT people taken in Denmark and Guatemala were posted around Copenhagen as part of the city’s pride celebration. The International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has begun publishi…

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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

Last month Nike debuted its “Equality” campaign with an ad featuring high-profile athletes like Serena Williams, LeBron James, and Megan Rapinoe. And for International Women’s Day, Nike announced a “Pro Hijab” for female Muslim athletes, with its own eye-grabbing (and controversial) video. These ads are inspirational—unless you believe that the factory workers making Nike sneakers, who are largely female and people of color, should actually be tr…

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Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

Twitter was outraged Monday. Megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church, housed in a former basketball arena, looked to be dry and quiet, even as thousands of Houstonians were seeking shelter from Hurricane Harvey. “Joel Osteen” started to trend on Twitter with comments about the hypocrisy of the prominent Prosperity Gospel preacher, who tweeted out that he and his wife were praying for Houston, while appearing not to do anything to address…

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Tiger’s Confession: Maybe Marriage Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

By Anthea Butler

I slept with Tiger Woods. Unfortunately for my lawyer and my bank account, it was Tiger’s picture on my laptop that I fell asleep with, as I read about his sixth paramour. Now, two days later, it’s up to 10 women. I should have quit reading, called a lawyer and said I slept with Tiger; my student loans could be paid off by now. Unfortunately, I don’t think I am Tiger’s type, even in an Ambien-induced haze! In the revelation of Tiger Woods’ multip…

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Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic that depicts a school of ichthus—the simple outline of a fish that is was an early symbol for followers of Christ—with a contemporary “evangellyfish” swimming in the opposite direction. The caption reads, simply, “Go against the flow.” The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which is being rolled out in a series of reports this year, depicts a deep shift in how…

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