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Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…recently rubbed shoulders with Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, and made national news in 2021 when he urged his congregation to “stock supplies” and “keep guns loaded” in the lead up to Biden’s inauguration. During a recent interview on the mass conversion of people away from the “LGBTQ lifestyle” with controversial NAR leader Lou Engle (himself a supporter of vicious anti-gay legislation), Burden and Engle talk about spiritual “ground strikes”…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…which German bishops and theologians have become prominent spokesmen. “The new rule opens the way for decisions that do justice to the situations people live in,” Alois Glueck, head of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics, said after the decision on new labour guidelines was announced on Tuesday. Over two-thirds of Germany’s 27 dioceses voted for the change, a Church spokesman said, indicating some opposition. There is no worldwide Cathol…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…ity to the sensibility of others—people, of course, but animals, machines, New York Times columns, and even abstractions such as religion and/or the secular—power words that never fail to incite. So when Taylor poses his central question—what does it feel like to live within a secular age?—the erudition and subtlety with which he strives to answer is often betrayed by a conception of religion as overwhelmingly (but not exclusively) cognitive—a one…

Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity

By Micha'el Rosenberg

…, neither of which is the same as when it comes from Lauren Green on a Fox News production. My frustration with Reza Aslan in no ways mitigates her wild unprofessionalism in this interview, nor her profound misunderstanding of the difference between confessional writing (the sort of work I do when I prepare a sermon for synagogue, for example) and academic research (the very different norms and assumptions in effect when writing an article for a p…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bad guys sometimes. Time will tell if Beck’s renunciation of violence and bigotry is true or if he’ll soon be back to his old tricks, because while he condemned the New York attackers’ actions as “bigotry for sport,” Beck clearly has no trouble with bigotry for profit….

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…rived home, the tape on my answering machine was full of messages from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and so forth, all saying, “We know that you’re a Mormon feminist and a political scientist and you’re in his ward. You’ve worked in Massachusetts politics around women’s issues. Please talk to us.” I immediately called Mitt’s home, and Ann answered. She encouraged me to go down and visit with him at the campaign of…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…ri Chinmoy Ghose: “When the Power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Das, and Ghose provide a dose of spiritual humanism that bookends a film filled with conspiracy narratives of corruption and manipulation. Christianity, religion, war, economies; these are all meant to divide and conquer humanity, the film argues, and the solution to the suffering they cause lies in a metaphysical vision of univ…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…ts to identify individuals who are Jewish (or whom they think are Jewish), New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman used the symbol in an act of reclamation and resistance against ascendant antisemitism. Drawing from his own experience, as well as analyzing the rise in hate crimes and speech against Jews both internationally and in the United States, Weisman provides a powerful voice about what it means and feels like to have such hate directed towa…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…barrasses herself by primarily asking Aslan not about the substance of his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, but why he, a Muslim, could and would write a book about Jesus. After Aslan calmly provides his credentials as a scholar of religions, Green, apparently unsatisfied with his answer asks, “But it still begs the question, though, why you would be interested in the founder of Christianity?” Again, Aslan informs Green…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…ndidate Huntsman. A refreshingly sober and penetrating take comes from the New York Times’ Matt Bai, who observes that Huntsman has already encountered trouble on the campaign trail connecting with voters, leaving them “disappointed” by his “lack of any evident vision.” The perception that Huntsman lacks a clear vision is not helped along by videos launched by the campaign to introduce the candidate, nor by his washed-out looking website. Go to ca…