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Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

Today is a good day for the world famous so-called “Serenity Prayer.” It is part of the twelve-step “liturgy”—helpful when confronting addiction. Since many of us confess we are addicted to fossil fuels and will use some to go to work today or to cook our food today or to warm our homes today, it is a good day to pray. Like that drink you can’t stop drinking, we are stuck in an addictive pattern. We are morally compromised, to put it mildly. Yest…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…ael relationship. Subsequently, in an attempt to tamp down concerns, Oren took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to deny that he had engaged in such a characterization, and to minimize the event as a blip on the “unassailably solid” relationship between the two countries. For such conflict to boil to the surface on the eve of the biggest event on AIPAC’s calendar was disastrous. AIPAC’s stated mission is “to help make Israel more secure by…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…. Jim Wallis 1. Keep digging until hit common ground 2. Give Glenn Beck a noogie 3. Clean up donkey dung in Senate chambers 4. Register God to vote 5. Email Bono that just joined R(ED) Glenn Beck 1. Give Jim Wallis a wedgie 2. Order assclown costume 3. Bring cotton candy to the media circus 4. Conduct taste test to find best chalk 5. Buy extra-strength Depends 6. Polish tinfoil hat so can wear it to Restoring Honor Rally 7. Find E.T. 8. Phone home…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…actually is. (Quoting the Wall Street Journal, Clinton described it as “a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that ‘rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.’”) Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who came up with the term “alternative right,” told Slate columnist Michelle Goldberg that the moment was “hugely significant.” “When a presidential candidate—…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…they want, but they’re ultimately using someone’s sexual orientation as a tool against that person, which is exactly what the LGBT movement is not about. . .If anyone knows how tough it can be to have your sexual orientation used against you, it is a gay or lesbian person.’” Caribbean: Will Belize ruling lead to greater progress in region? Caleb Orozco, the plaintiff in the legal case that led to Belize’s Chief Justice ruling the colonial-era sodo…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…ake sure their children develop the proper worldview from very early childhood. Lamenting that “Most people will die believing what they believe at age 13,” Barna said, striking a panicked tone similar to Ligonier’s write-up of its State of Theology Survey, “It’s got to come from the family, as well as the church. But we have to pay attention to the fact that the culture of America is the biggest shaper of people’s worldview right now.” Such fears…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ct “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret Atwood shudder. The consequences of this ruling, similar to the fallout from Dobbs, are immediate and devastating: The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Services, as well as two other IVF providers, paused IVF treatment out of fear of criminal prosecution. The court’s ruling isn’t, of course, based in law, but in religion. And, while it is assuredly Christian national…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…however, those who consider leaving religion but stay, tend to experience poorer mental health over time, compared to those who are more consistent in their religious and nonreligious identities. Which begs the question of how leaving impacts well being—particularly for those raised in a religion. By now many of us are familiar with the data on the “nones.” Nearly four in ten (39%) young adults (18-29) are religiously unaffiliated, and they’re nea…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…Time Lord, an alien time traveler. His time machine is the Tardis, which looks like a police box—think phone booth—but it’s bigger on the inside than the outside, can fly, and may actually be a living creature. He adventures through time and space, usually accompanied by one or more human companions who assist him in righting wrongs, liberating the oppressed, fighting alien menaces, and averting unspeakable disasters. His alien origins give him a…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…rning to walk in the Salt Lake City, Utah LGBT Pride Parade with the grassroots-organized “Mormons Building Bridges” group. From the beginning, Mormons Building Bridges founder and organizer Erika Munson, a straight, churchgoing LDS mother of five from Sandy, Utah, focused on one very simple message: that as followers of Jesus Christ, Mormons should show love to LGBT people. Munson sent word out across the Mormon grapevine, through email, phone, a…