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Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…ate, treatments aiming to suppress sexual orientation or gender expression can cause serious damage, or even be deadly. His own research, however, has essentially been deemed junk science by those who aren’t committed to an anti-LGBTQ agenda. A pair of Danish scholars, for example, called his publication on suicide rates among those who submit to “change efforts” (aka conversion therapy) “egregiously problematic.” In addition to methodological iss…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…icans who want to hear candidates talk about their religion. On the Republican side, candidates could view this finding, along with the dissatisfaction among white evangelicals with the GOP’s advocacy on same-sex marriage and other issues as demanding even more religious fervor to win over crucial primary voters. That process, unsurprisingly, is already in motion. The GOP’s Director of Faith Engagement, Chad Connelly, told CBN’s David Brody last m…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…s who consider themselves the gatekeepers of “biblical” authority). The podcast’s catchy opening tune and priming of mood through narrative hooks works the crowd in the way that Driscoll did, creating a buzz out of controversy to the extent that it loses sight of its purported aim—healthy, substantive change in evangelical church culture and practices. Such transformation would require more truth-telling on the part of the enablers, apologists, an…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…ption will help parents to keep their children faithful. Given the statistical number of Nones among Millennials and Gen X and the seemingly unpreventable increase in those numbers, these children, like Emily, or the children of many homeschooling parents, will eventually encounter peers who are not religiously affiliated. Given the way technology works, they will also inevitably find a way to expose themselves to popular culture. And the question…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…everyday life. So extreme is this sense of alarm and danger that a significant number of Republicans now believe that the president is a secret Muslim, and sits in the Oval Office to enable the realization of Islamic law in the West. One must be seriously and actively disconnected from reality to presume that this could be the case, but there you have it. On a recent drive through northeastern Pennsylvania, I heard a talk radio host make exactly…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…are significant members with our mourning energies. Clearly, for a significant number of people, Kobe Bryant exemplified the ethos of America with his Mamba mentality that was centered on being better, stronger, more dominant, and ruthless at competing. Even fans of opposing teams recognize something tremendous about Bryant’s abilities, including in his last game when he led the Lakers comeback victory over the Utah Jazz, becoming in the process…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…e most vulnerable group” subjected to the “strict traditions” of the North Caucasus, the mountainous southern Russian region where Chechnya and other mainly Muslim republics are located. “Women, more often than men, are subjected to honor killings, and they can be judged only based on suspicion, even in the absence of facts,” the report notes. Honduras: LGBT activist plans to stay in spite of recent attack David Valle, a prominent LGBT activist wh…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…ith a staff of six full-time and five part-time chaplains—including an African-American Southern Baptist and two fellows from the Netherlands—the HCH is far larger number than most college chaplaincies, with women constituting over half of the staff. Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, executive director of HCH and author of the bestselling book Good Without God, says MacBain is the perfect person to lead this innovative new project to grow “Godless C…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…mbers are much lower than any other segment. Furthermore, almost the identical number of Republicans and White evangelicals believe Trump champions their beliefs and have a favorable opinion of him. Given that, it’s easy to see who makes up Trump’s political base. So let’s assume that White evangelicals don’t think much of Trump’s personal piety. But they do trust him to advocate for them and their beliefs. Perhaps understanding more about those b…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…y by Western Muslims. Muslims born and in generations of Islam anthropologically don’t really care as much how the newbies identify. Besides, once I learned that my slave ancestors on my mother’s side were Muslims, anthropologically speaking, the gusto was taken out of that claim for origins. Mostly because when I discussed this amongst Muslims of generations, even my friends, I was surprised how many determined that by this fact of ancestral anth…