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Charleston Killings: This is What a Sin Against the Holy Spirit Looks Like

By Peter Laarman

…These tensions are rooted in the very same depths as those from which love springs, or murder. The white man’s unadmitted–and apparently, to him, unspeakable–private fears and longings are projected onto the Negro.” Baldwin tells the hard truth that American white people cannot know and love themselves, cannot forgive themselves in the Christian sense of forgiveness, unless and until they know and love the American black people with whom their ow…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…town in the Irish community of County Clare, famous for its mineral-water springs, cozy pubs, classically colorful shops and traditional cottages, celebrates one of Ireland’s most cherished traditions: matchmaking in the old-fashioned style – by meeting through the offices of a professional matchmaker who for a small fee helps people find a partner and then makes the corresponding introduction… The Outing, which comes right after, “is a fusion of…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…and evangelical Christian schools I attended in Indianapolis and Colorado Springs, and of people associated with them. When it comes to LGBTQ issues, instead of quoting the marginal Burton I might well have quoted Franklin Graham, who recently said: So I would encourage churches – preach the gospel, proclaim the gospel, and take a stand against wickedness. And I hear so many arguments that we need to love the gays and lesbians. Of course we love…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…ls. On the other are those who come to believe that any opposition to GMOs springs from deep-seated idiocy; the work of anti-science demons. It would be nice if none of this rancor affected reporting, but that’s wishful thinking. Journalists, editors, and publishers care about accuracy, but they also worry about their audience. When that audience insists on believing in Satan, stories will be far more likely to feature him—even if he doesn’t exist…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…grace is that it’s inherently good; it’s never inappropriate, even when it springs from a flawed source. For all of the problems we can find in modern sports—and Wallace’s essay touches on the commercialism, the inane interviews, the fact that sports don’t materially benefit anyone except for the genetically gifted .001%—Wallace finds value in “a thought that’s also a feeling.” But not like that As much as I like Wallace’s essay, I get caught on t…

Onward Christian Trump Soldiers

By Paul Harvey

…he coming July 4th festivities, Rep. Doug Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs and El Paso County in Colorado (full disclosure—my home) introduced a resolution to declare July 2nd as a “National Day of Personal Reflection and Repentance.” Heretofore, Lamborn has been best known for bringing military pork but little else to his district, expressing doubts about the man-made causes of climate change, making the list of the “seven most anti-gay U…

7 Religion Stories to Watch in the 2012 Battleground States

By Joanna Brooks

…orado evangelicals, including Colorado-born Bryan Fischer and the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. Will Romney have to expend extra resources to bring Colorado evangelicals to the polls? And will a statewide ballot initiative on the legalization of marijuana bring younger voters (including younger Colorado evangelicals who some see as potential Democratic voters) to the polls in numbers Obama needs? Pennsylvania: Clinton Catholics for R…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…udis and the other sheikhdoms in the middle-east are good examples of well-springs from which conservative attitudes towards sex and women have been spreading.” That indeed is a thought to ponder upon. Among the many what-ifs of the modern world, one of the most intriguing ones would be to question how the Muslim world, especially the middle-east would have shaped out with zero Western influence. Would the Arab world have been a thriving secular d…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…BTQ Christian organization headquartered in Kendall’s hometown of Colorado Springs, Colo. Although Nicolosi claimed that NARTH was a secular organization dedicated to “scientific inquiry” about the nature of same-sex attraction, Nicolosi himself was a devout Catholic, and NARTH frequently aligned itself with right-wing religious groups that adamantly opposed LGBTQ equality. Nicolosi’s website, which serves as the central hub for NARTH’s now-limite…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…