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2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…student group, which affirms marriage equality, is still not acknowledged officially by Biola.) Clearly, attitudes around LGBTQ inclusion are changing rapidly in the evangelical Christian community but they’re not following a linear path toward progress. Rather the change has been in a dynamic and almost chaotic way—two steps forward, three steps back, and one to the side— seemingly driven more by passionate emotions (especially fear) than reason…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…on the Extraordinary Rite and Gregorian chant. However, the institute’s website two years later still says “full site coming soon,” with a video featuring stock music rather than chant, and its Facebook page has not been updated since 2014. Articles about the turmoil at the seminary repeatedly mention that Cordileone intends for a greater focus on Latin in priestly formation. But only two parishes in San Francisco continue to offer Latin Mass, lea…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…American civil religion to the briefing, to which the Trump administration official shot it down as “ahistorical.” Another fail for the White House, even if Miller’s facts were right and even if Acosta’s accosting of him went beyond the standard protocol of a journalistic Q&A. Miller even oddly opted to utter the word “racist,” as part of a denial of the bill being that, succeeding only in sounding suspicious, like the motorist at the traffic stop…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and: High-ranking woman comes out Jayne Ozanne, one of the highest-ranking officials in the Church of England, came out as a lesbian. Trevor Grundy at Religion News Service reports that Ozanne revealed that she had subjected herself to various forms of conversion therapy, including one “where clergy tried to case out a sexual orientation they deemed demonic.” “God is a God of surprises,” said Jayne Ozanne, 46, as she took up her new job as directo…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…our new president guide us into the critical years ahead, but each elected official will play a key role in determining the welfare and moral direction of our country.” Prayer Suit: The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) (http://www.ffrf.org/), which describes itself as “an educational group working for the separation of state and church,” recently filed suit against President Bush over the federal law designating a National D…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…; for instance, one of the monotheisms. The danger here is that government officials will be given the power and authority to determine how the tradition is to be understood and honored. As Winnifred Fallers Sullivan proposes in her 2007 book The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, such determinations will tend to favor official or “high” religion—practices linked to recognizable doctrine supported by canonical texts and clerical hierarchies—over…

Michael Sean Winters is Right: Pope Francis Should Not Address Congress

By Patricia Miller

…is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference… I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the Nationa…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…e in conversations about the region’s future.” But what is the value of an official statement if it is not made public? It is curious, too, which “folks in the coalfields” the Diocese chooses to stand with in this case. What of those coalfield residents who have to deal with the effects of mountaintop removal day after day, knowing all too well the systemic causes of poverty, joblessness and ecological devastation? “Back here in West Virginia, man…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…ncludes the use of the personal name that gets attached by signature to an official state document. I think we need to be clear that these legal fiction persons are not identical to the real people bearing the same names. Simply, “Kim Davis, County Clerk” does not mean the same as “Kim Davis, herself, or as daughter, wife, mother, sister, and so on.” They may point to the same human body, but they don’t mean the same thing. Once Kim Davis, County…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…from combining forces, sweeping in, and slaughtering a large encampment of officially neutral Narragansetts in Rhode Island’s Great Swamp. The heavily armed raiders—and here is where the word “ranger” first comes into popular use to describe state-sanctioned guerrilla warfare—burned hundreds of wigwams, killed at least 700 Indians, and took hundreds of captives, whom they sold into slavery in the Antilles. Regrouping, the Narragansett warriors set…