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Rick Warren and Homophobia in Africa

By Sarah Posner

…alizing the Culture Wars,” you should. It’s vitally important stuff on how American evangelical leaders have succeeded in exporting — and validating — homophobia in Africa. About Rick Warren, Kaoma notes: “In America Warren says ‘I love gays.’ In Africa, he says it’s not a natural way of life. He’s said, “I can’t say this in America, but I can say it in Africa.” In America, people will hold him responsible, and in Africa, nobody will. As I reporte…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…affs and offices,” Beeson said. “They were literally creating a one-to-one contact with voters,” something that Romney did not have the staff to match. “Now I know”? Yes, that’s the sound of me dropping my cup of egg nog. Because Rich Beeson could have simply counted field offices to make the inference that something was going on—Obama had three to four times as many field offices as Romney in the swing states. Or could have simply counted the st…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch they can or want to go to so I am their church. I am the one point of contact outside of that community that makes them know they’re not crazy, because everybody else thinks they must be a Communist if they don’t go to church. I get letters from people who say they after they read one of my earlier books they burned it because it was so evil. Then, ten years later, they come back and say, “Now, I really understand what you’re talking about an…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…ould overtake her and the Russian Official as the primary Russian point of contact for the National Prayer Breakfast. While this sentencing memo focused on Butina’s role in the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast, Russian participation in this breakfast increased significantly the following year. Religion News Service reported that Jim Slattery, a former Democratic congressman from Kansas who maintains ties to the National Prayer Breakfast and who atte…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…nd is not forced to believe in the existence of anything…the only organ of contact with existence is acceptance, love. That is why beauty and reality are identical. That is why joy and the sense of reality are identical.” Her idea is that something, anything—the Bible, the cross, the person slumped over there in the café or asleep on that park bench—can become more or less real depending on the degree to which we accept them, how much we are open…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…ter. Seized with what was perhaps the instinctive desire to be in physical contact with her again, I asked to see them. When the box was opened for me, I was overwhelmed. Here in a box on the counter was what was left of the body of someone I loved, someone I used to stay out all night dancing with, someone who I had spoken to just a week before on the phone, her laughter weakened but still familiar. When I thought about her ashes being scattered…

What Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…seriously injuring him. But why? The alleged attacker, Hadi Matar, was an American, born in California and living in New Jersey at the time of the attack. He came from a Lebanese family, and at age 24 he was born years after the original fatwa was proclaimed. It’s surprising that he even knew about it, much less that he was motivated to do something about it. There were a few hints, however, that Matar was becoming more involved in violent Islami…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…over the years between the two series? Did they shift as Caprica came into contact with other worlds? In response to the destruction the Cylons brought about? Or do the two series have different conceptions about the range of what constitutes normal human sexuality? Or does this image simply seem shocking to adolescence in this culture? Another element which fascinated me in the pilot episodes were the black gloves which the Adams/Adama family wea…

Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…h their summer when they heard about the jobs scraping oil from beaches. A contact told them if they wanted to be hired, they should be here by 8:00 the next morning. (They work temporary jobs and each summer, they live in a different place. Last summer, Kumrits worked on a sailboat in Maine, even though he had never sailed in his life.) Now, they’re shoveling tar balls off the beach for $12 an hour, time-and-a-half overtime. They say it’s becomin…

Bishop Finn-dicted For Protecting Pedophile Priest

By Anthea Butler

…was allowed to continue priestly duties throughout the diocese, including contact with children, even though hundreds of photographs of children were discovered by the Bishop on Ratigan’s laptop. The pictures including upskirt pictures of girls and pictures of a young girl naked from the waist down. While Kansas City priests tiptoed around the news in masses on Sunday, there is no doubt that the indictment is another warning shot aimed at the enc…