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Is Romney’s Foreign Policy Problem a Product of his Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…ate twentieth-century does not have a political ethic. There is nothing to compare to, for example, strong Catholic social teachings. And in the absence of a strong systematic theology about what morality means in a public and global context, there has been general conservative drift among Mormons—influenced a little bit by ultra-conservative thinkers like Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen, but just as much or more by broader American trends towa…

Regnerus Ducks Responsibility for Study’s Misuse

By Peter Montgomery

…the Regnerus study acknowledges: “…although it would have been helpful to compare the children of [intact biological families] to the children of committed and intact gay or lesbian couples, this was attempted, but was not feasible” because of difficulty in finding a sample size. Regnerus tells Christianity Today that, in hindsight, he wishes he had been “even more vigilant than I was in making sure readers always understood” what the study was…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…teens in 2010. There also were substantially lower rates of abortion, when compared with women in the metro area and nationally: 4.4 to 7.5 abortions per 1,000 women in the study, compared with 13.4 to 17 abortions per 1,000 women overall in the St. Louis region, Peipert calculated. That’s lower than the national rate, too, which is almost 20 abortions per 1,000 women. Encouraging as these results are from both a women’s health and, ostensibly, pr…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…tle shifts in emphasis over time. Recently, I heard a top Mormon historian compare doctrine to a cloud: there are some fairly central points of Mormon belief and lots of more marginal ones. But the faith is actually more about orthopraxy than orthodoxy—living as an observant Mormon, showing up on Sundays, doing your Church-assigned job (since we have no clergy). When an ultra-conservative (non-Mormon) political kingmaker has you in the hot seat an…

The Great Religious Realignment

By Sarah Posner

…t given what we’ve learned recently about religious realignments—declining numbers of Catholics, declining numbers of mainline Protestants, declining numbers of evangelicals in the 18- to 29-year-old age group, and increasing numbers of unaffiliated voters, and in particular, atheists and agnostics in the 18- to 29-year-old age group—it seems like a significant shift is underway. A recent Pew survey found that there are now equal numbers of white…

Photo of a Dying Man: The Journalist’s Job

By Jason Anthony

…ed distance, can make for awkward neighbors. I propose that you charitably compare us to something like the role that gentiles play during Passover. A Jew can sell his chametz to a neighbor who does not observe the holiday. The neighbor’s ethical shoes fit slightly differently. And because of that, he’s able to take on an uncomfortable responsibility. Sometimes that works out well for both of us. The world often benefits from the clear eye that se…

Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us

By Anthea Butler

…ols at the same time. Those children and teachers were innocent. You can’t compare this to abortion. It’s a false equivalence. If you continue to allow these theological hacks to speak for you, or if you as clergy repeat this asinine excuse to your congregation this Advent season, you lead your people astray, and you have blood on your hands as well. I don’t currently identify as an evangelical, but in my time at Fuller Seminary I learned some gre…

Video: Why Huckabee & Dobson Are Wrong on Newtown

By Anthea Butler

…up, evangelicals and conservative Christians. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we as a nation have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time. Those children and teachers were innocent. You can’t compare this to abortion. It’s a false equivalence. If you continue to allow these theological hacks to speak for you, or if you as clergy repeat this asinine excuse to your congregation this Advent…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

…n the ex-gay world of reparative therapy and subsequently used a sermon to compare gay men to vampires (McClurkin’s testimony credits fellow headliner at the Gospel Celebration, Marvin Winans, for providing McClurkin with strong, straight male friendships: “being in a sea of men in Detroit helped give Donnie a new sexual identity”). Meanwhile, Kluwe and Ayanbadejo have used their celebrity to make a plainspoken, unpretentiously eloquent case for g…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…thing. I’ve just sent off my dad’s genome and my genome and we’re going to compare them. But within it, there will be the transvestite, trans—well, I call transgender the whole group. And then there’s transvestite and transsexual, which I believe are the same thing but it depends whether you take hormones to move yourself from transvestite to transsexual. The next person has a different thing saying, “No it’s not that. This is the name of it.” It’…