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Christian Pollsters Find “Homosexual Behavior” Gaining Moral Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ality because they truly are not prejudiced instead of fearing that they might “look prejudiced,” but it’s a good first step….

Famous Mormon Fictionalizes Life Stories

By Joanna Brooks

…a couple of those books, Dunn described how he had played baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals. That he’d pitched to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams and rubbed elbows with Stan Musial. He also told stories about his service in World War II. He said that he was one of six soldiers out of his battalion of 1,000 to have survived the war. He said a buddy named Harold Lester Brown had died in his arms on Okinawa—prayers on his lips—and that Dunn himself…

Ray Lewis Isn’t the Only One Bringing Religion to Super Bowl Sunday

By Joanna Brooks

…redette, but nothing that comes close to true-believing Cougar fandom. I must admit I am a stone-cold nonbeliever. But what about the kids? people ask. Are you worried they’ll be confused with an atheist mother and an ultraorthodox father? Nah. They know more about the NBA than any seven- and nine-year-old girls in history. They talk about Metta World Peace as if he were a family friend. With their capacious knowledge of early 21st-century sport…

Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

…her points, the Church claims that the Talmud incites Jewish violence against Christians, contains blasphemous teachings about God, and says terrible things about Christian holy figures. The language is terse and outraged: Jews claim “that this same Jesus suffers in hot excrement in hell because he mocked the words of the abovementioned sages,” begins charge 27; “They also claim that the Lord sinned” reads an incredulous charge 5. The Talmud reall…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…t to make the same mistake” as the U.S. did in 1939, turning away the S.S. St. Louis and “sending over 900 Jewish refugees back to Europe, where many died in concentration camps.” That incident, the letter continues, “was a stain on the history of our country — a tragic decision made in a political climate of deep fear, suspicion, and antisemitism.” The Orthodox Union, in its own statement, notes, “The Jewish community has an important perspective…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…billion living an okay life? Well, that’s the greatest good for the greatest number—the argument that you’re making. If you want a livable lifestyle for the greatest number, then living at a minimal level with 12 billion people would be better. If you want people living the very best possible lifestyle, then 100 million people would be better. If you stop thinking about only human beings, but thinking about all the rest of the living organisms on…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…larization of Christmas to end.” CitizenLink.com recently reported that “Last Christmas, Stuart Shepard introduced a brand-new holiday in his Stoplight® video commentary. More than 2.2 million people around the world watched ‘Merry Tossmas,’ in which retailers were asked to acknowledge the name of the holiday that falls on Dec. 25. Otherwise, their catalogs met an unfortunate end.” Focus on the Family would like your family to add another this tra…

Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011

By Lauri Lebo

…n Tennessee, which says that educators may not be prohibited from “helping students understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.” As always, since intelligent design was ruled unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the introduced bills rely on such creationist code words as “teaching the controversy,” “academi…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…inating trend in the world of religion. While small in total number, the fastest growing religious population in North America today (after Islam) is NOT the “nones” It’s “other religion,” a category that includes anything from Baha’i and Taosim to Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Part of the growth in “other religion” segment is being fueled by religion-switching. Nearly 2 million people are expected to be added to the “other religion” category over the…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…t to purge the state of polygamists, adopting, as noted above, America’s most strident anti-polygamy policies. Part of that drive was due to the state constitution’s explicit criminalization of polygamy. But another part, and perhaps a major driver within the LDS portion of the agitation, is modern Mormonism’s continued anxiety over the practice itself. Though an official manifesto publicly ended the practice of plural marriage in 1890, and a seco…