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New Spencer Book Denies Existence of Muhammad

By Hussein Rashid

…ience of hadith collection. The Muslims who collected sayings of Muhammad knew that people were making things up and created checks and the best methodology that they could at the time to stop it. Modern scholars are revisiting the existing corpus with new tools and methods. Why a famous mosque inscription may refer not to Muhammad but, astonishingly, to Jesus. Stumped by this one. No idea what it refers to. How the oldest records referring to a…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…t list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it used to be. And you’d be right. Dead used to mean three things: you weren’t breathing, your heart wasn’t beating, and your brain wasn’t working. But in the 1970s, respirators and de…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…se people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities.” The new version asks if the church is “capable of providing for these people, guaranteeing … them … a place of fellowship in our communities.” The first version said homosexual unions can often constitute a “precious support in the life of the partners.” The new one says gay unions often constitute “valuable support in the life of these persons.” In nearly all cases, the first…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…nment social policies Right-wing apocalyptic Christians who fear a Satanic New World Order Nebulous conspiracy theorists who fear a secular New World Order Nationalistic ultra-patriots concerned that US sovereignty is eroding. Xenophobic anti-immigrant white nationalists who worry about preserving the “real” America. These grievances are interacting in a global economy often eager to accommodate corporate interests. And now we add in the fact that…

An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…p says that he enthusiastically welcomes Believe Out Loud as a “tremendous new movement that will give these conflicted clergy friends better opportunities to raise their voices in support of love, hospitality, and justice for all people.” The Uncertain Middle A major strength of the new campaign is that it builds directly a very large and recent quantitative study of clergy attitudes that was conducted by Robert P. Jones of Public Religion Resear…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ant reviews a rhetorical battle being waged by a couple of bishops against new education guidelines on gender identity in the province of Alberta. The new guidelines say school boards have until March 31 to come up with policies that support, among other things, students’ right to self-identify their gender and be addressed using their preferred pronouns. The Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association released a statement this week reaffirming…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…tive. He was a hopped-up, stoned version of Jon Stewart, who once told Fox News, which had charged that his news program was slanted: “but my show is on Comedy Central!” Thompson was able to awaken his readers to the absurdity of their lives by documenting the absurdity of his. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s comment to Dan Quayle in their vice presidential debate: Max Blumenthal is no Hunter Thompson. Blumenthal’s Goliath is not funny, nor is it ve…

Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

By John Stoehr

…, the former president, almost certainly without knowing it, established a new assumption that’s unlikely to undo itself any time soon, an assumption that not only understands that the work of liberty and justice for all is ongoing, but also that the Republicans’ lies are no longer worth accepting or overlooking. The world saw Derek Chauvin squeeze the life out of George Floyd. No lie could hide that. The world saw the former president try to sque…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…re you optimistic or pessimistic? Why? I am in the studio working on a few new songs right now, and I’ll be releasing a single with two new songs this fall. I am also working on a memoir, which will be my first book, and a couple of other projects. I continually try to advocate for LGBTQ people in religion and politics. I am optimistic, and I do believe the world is evolving faster than ever on LGBTQ acceptance and equality. Of course there are st…

Focus on the Family’s New Face?

By Sarah Posner

…ints. Fleece had cited the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad as an example of FOFA’s new approach. At a panel this morning on the pro-life movement’s place in the conservative movement, FOFA’s Carrie Earll elaborated on how the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad represents the future of how FOFA will do anti-abortion advocacy. This year is FOFA’s first appearance at CPAC, and organizers were clearly trying to attach opposition to abortion as a “liberty” issue to fit w…