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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

…forces of savagery and civilization that used a mythic past to justify the policies of the present.” While the majority of the Scandinavian immigrants to the Midwest were Lutherans, Catholics embraced the Rune Stone as a testament to Catholic martyrdom. Also the target of Nativism, American Catholics could now claim that America had been consecrated with the blood of Catholic martyrs long before the arrival of the Pilgrims. John Ireland, the archb…

RDPulpit: Rahm Emanuel No Reason for Celebration

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…illiant young black man in the White House will be such a healing experience that we won’t care about this newly emerging reality; unless Obama creates some other path to access and to public input into his policies by those of us who helped build his electoral success, or unless we organize to do so outside the framework of his campaign organization, we may be in for a lot of disappointment….

Rope of God: The Aceh Tsunami—Four Years On

By Mark Woodward

…iew. It is more reasonable to suggest that a combination of new Indonesian policies emphasizing decentralization and Acehenese Islamic theodicy are responsible. Garden of Culture The Peace Expo was held in Yogyakarta’s “Garden of Culture,” a colonial-era complex that is now Indonesian cultural space and was, for one evening, Acehenese religious and cultural space. This irony was not lost on the Acehenese who organized the program. The evening bega…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…never the state tries to enforce ideological or religious conformity, such policies will always result in tragedy. This was the case in Stalinist Soviet Union and Maoist China, but the same was true of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Puritan Massachusetts, Catholic Spain, or Christian Rome. In reality, despite all the tragedies that occurred in the Soviet Union, it was a deeply moralistic society where each individual was expected to contribute to…

Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to LDS Church Leadership Position

By Joanna Brooks

…d that it does not represent an innovation but simply an implementation of policies permitting any member who is found worthy by their local priesthood leaders to serve.) “I love my Heavenly Father, and one of the ways I express that love is through being my genuine self, and honoring the way He made me,” Mayne told me. “I now have a unique opportunity to focus on helping other people.” Mayne is particularly committed to reaching out to the many L…

“Spilled Semen” Amendment to Personhood Bill Offered by Oklahoma Democrat

By Sarah Posner

…n unborn child. Her amendment, she continues, “seeks to draw attention to the absurdity, duplicity and lack of balance inherent in the policies of this state in regard to women.”…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…inable vision of social organization, and through it, foreign and economic policies. For me, far too few people have stopped to consider how profoundly the third struggle impacts the first two. And the great thing about heavy metal, or hip-hop, punk and other “extreme” forms of music that we are accustomed to here, is that when you look at (and listen to) them in the context of the Middle East and the larger Muslim world, you realize that metal of…

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…his incoherent, and often incompatible, mix of domestic and international policies and priorities somehow transcends ideology and points to a new way of governing that is neither left or right. Much has also been made of growing fault lines within the evangelical community, with suggestions that the evangelicalism of old white men is dead. Taken together, the rise of Trump and the fracturing evangelicalism suggest that the political phenomena kno…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…ls but bafflement or hostility toward transgender people… but in Iran, the policies but in place by Ayatollah Khomeini have the opposite effect and often transgender people are accepted if they move toward surgical reassignment while homosexuals are oppressed. There is no ideal place, only contrasting shades of gray. You take up the issue of marriage in Homosexuality in Islam. And, of course this is a big issue in today’s news. I admit I sometime…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…by polygamy and the questions of blacks and the priesthood—errors happen, policies and doctrines change, personal bias and egos cloud situations, and many years of leaders walking the party line further entrench errors into the culture. Even with today’s means of communication there is a constant need for correction of temple presidents, mission presidents, stake presidents and other leaders because they are people. Plain ordinary people with the…