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Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…A rejects coercive population control tactics—and doesn’t support abortion services of any kind—yet critics still maintain that it indirectly supports China’s coercive population control regime: “Earlier this year American taxpayers funneled $35 mill to UNFPA, an outfit that supports policies Chen has sacrificed his safety fighting,” tweeted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on April 30. Hoffman’s op-ed combines two common narratives…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

….” Hemant Mehta’s popular blog, Friendly Atheist, called on his readers to contact their representatives and demand that they “do everything in their power to make sure this bill never sees the light of day.” As it turned out, Mehta’s readers needn’t have bothered, since the national backlash against the North Carolina resolution led state legislators to permanently shelve it. The battle was over in days, and none of the soldiers in this war learn…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…from the list of inconsistent Christian voters and is waging a campaign to contact them via handwritten letters from fellow Christians. Yates is concerned that too many Christians don’t vote. He explains that this is partly because they’ve been deceived by the myth of the separation of church and state. (Needless to say, there’s nothing in the doctrine of separation that seeks to discourage or prevent anyone from voting.) Jason Yates of My Faith V…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…e. We need source material drawn from our cultural world that reflects our contact with the world. BRAXTON: A “grammar of compassion”—that’s a beautiful phrase. The world surely needs more compassion. I won’t begrudge people about whether their motivation for compassionate problem-solving arises from religious or secular sources. We just need to address these public problems. When teaching in divinity schools and seminaries, I remind students that…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…fore she moved to Seattle, where she now works for an agency that provides services to homeless youth. “Simply hiding out in the safety and comfort of a place like Seattle is not Christian,” she says in reply to a question about why she would leave a gay-friendly city to spend two months visiting places that actively discriminate against queer folks. “Statistically,” she continues, “a third of homeless young people identify as gay, bisexual, or tr…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…x, who had just begun to play tackle football. The transition from the non-contact realm of flag-football to the padded variety seemed to have instilled in Max an urgency to initiate hits. Pastor Young asked, “What do you think about when you see guys on the other team, if they are really big? What goes through your mind?” “I want to pancake them,” Max proclaimed gleefully. “Or they’ll pancake me and smack me down like a sack of potatoes,” a decla…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…of the collider lit up with a spirograph of pastel whenever particles made contact. The result resembled a flower; perhaps the dieffenbachia watching plant porn on the other side of the room might have liked this, had they been able to choose. Keats’ hope is that by bringing together the most traditional of prayer spaces—the altar—with the most modern of experimental physics—the LHC—God will take notice. There was at least some response from the f…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…r, according to voting records as far back as 1994.” According to the news service, in 1999 and 2003, Daschle “supported a Senate decision endorsing the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.” He “voted for federal funding of abortions on a number of occasions,” including 2003, when “he voted for an amendment that would repeal President Reagan’s ‘Mexico City Policy’ and allow funding for abortions—and abortion counseling—ab…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…c of presidential candidates. In the 2008 campaign, John McCain said, “The number one issue people should make selection of the president of the United Sates is ‘Will this person carry on the Judeo-Christian tradition that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?’” In his recent critique of American religious illiteracy, religion scholar Stephen Prothero sees the political use of “Judeo-Christian values” as generatin…

QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…their families to join Protzman in Dallas in November is STILL THERE. The number is certainly down from its height as many have stayed and cut off contact with their families. They recently took a road trip to Arizona to attend Trump’s rally, which garnered national attention with Protzman’s claim that Trump was really JFK Jr. in disguise. Protzman’s followers claimed that their seats meant Protzman had contacts with Trump, which renewed interest…