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High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…to describe it. And if you think about it—those are required elements of any flood story. There had to be a big flood, and someone had to survive to record it, or we wouldn’t know about it at all! The real insights are in the differences between the flood stories. Whether they are describing something like a dam breaking, or water coming from the sea in Tahiti, or a tsunami. There were missionaries in the Pacific who were confused because the nat…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…ry source of Mormon messaging during the Proposition 8 campaign was the anonymously-authored “Six Consequences if Prop 8 Fails” document, which went viral across Mormon social networks after its introduction by email in mid-August and was utilized as a training document and handout in the Mormon-coordinated ground campaign. The document alleged that the legalization of same-sex marriage would eventuate in the teaching of same-sex marriage in publi…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…tion that was not at war. He has never known a nation where jobs for the many outweighed wealth for the few, where health for the struggling outweighed profits for the faceless multinationals, where banks were not entitled to eat before the working; never known a nation where anyone even stopped to think about the inner city, where the poor did not have to beg for food, a nation with more purpose to it than war to protect a Christendom that looks…

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…s; “Rediscovering God in America” and “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny,” and joining with Gingrich’s American Solutions “at the great TEA Party Day on April 15th.” “I’ve known Newt Gingrich for about 20 years now and I’ve always enjoyed him intellectually, but detested him politically,” Joe Klein recently wrote in his blog for Time. “The reason for the latter is his now-anachronistic first resort to anger; again and again, he cheapens publi…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…these Christian youths is the cultivation of group identity and purpose. Many conservative Christians see themselves as an embattled minority desperately resisting the growing secular society around them. This sense abounds in Generation Joshua discussion threads as well, and many students see their involvement as a way to find kindred spirits and like-minded encouragement. One participant wrote, “I’ve found a place where people agree with my poli…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…don’t really feel like I’m stepping forward as a public Christian figure, anymore than anybody else with a Twitter profile. Everyone is engaging publicly in discussions about their lives now. We have to all ask ourselves how we’re engaging as public figures and how we’re all expressing our religious ideals. Everyone with a Facebook page and Twitter profile does it. It used to be something that was reserved only for the famous, only for those who w…

Sometimes You Can’t Say a Word

By Jonathan L. Walton

…t of Martin Luther King’s assassination fielded celebratory calls as a telephone operator in Memphis, Tennessee, telephoned us to awake my four-year-old twins from their sleep. Through her sniffles and giggles, this loving grandmother and now proud American citizen, kept repeating, “you tell those babies Obama did it! Obama did it! Wake them up and let them know that “O’RockoBama” [my son’s pronunciation] really did win tonight!” And I also receiv…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e throughout his life. And, he was really digging all the apps on his new iPhone. So, eventually, he created an app that would provide “Biblical guidance to your everyday ups and downs.” With it, users select from a scrolling list of “blessings” (friendship, new home) or “burdens” (anger, money), shake the phone, and get a Bible verse to guide reflection in the course of daily life. What is cool about apps like the Holy Roller is not, however, jus…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…l was conducted by TNS, an independent research firm which conducts weekly phone polls, according to a Republicans for Choice press release. The poll asked, regardless of respondents’ personal feelings about abortion, whether “the woman, family, and her doctor [should] make the decision or the government [should] make the decision.” Seventy-one percent of self-identified Republicans said they “strongly” felt that the woman, her family, and her doc…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…ory of Nones. The fact that most of the people on site were artists, and many of them also LGBTQ, meant that any chaplains present needed to be sensitive to the possibility that their friends and family waiting outside for news might also be religiously unaffiliated or had even been alienated or hurt by religion. Which makes it all the more ironic that chaplains from the Billy Graham Crusade had, according to Landeza, been trying to enter the fire…