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Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…ony. How can parents balance the desire to have critical, questioning kids with a wish to encourage thinking that may not be entirely rational, or that may involve perceptions of entities that can’t be materially explained? We have multiple ways of knowing: we have intuition, we have rigorous logic, we have investigation. We need to use them all. They’re all important, valid forms of perception. We see epidemic rape on campuses, of depression that…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ybe the reason that Jesus and God are related is because God had an affair with a Jewish girl on a Galilean hillside and produced the Godman. That’s what you get if you literalize the story. I don’t mean to be profane about that but sometimes you have to make it sound as ridiculous as this so people know you can’t read the story literally. What did you most enjoy about writing this book? The most fun I had in the first part of the book was develop…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Screenplay. The Mirror reports that Tom Booker, chair of the LGBTQ* group within the right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), quit, saying he could no longer defend the party. Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage was welcomed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C. South Africa: Owners of gay ‘cure’ camp guilty in murder of teenager Gay Star News reports that Alex de Koker and Michael Erasmus hav…

Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell

By Anthea Butler

…n found time from her “Dancing with the stars” practice to get on Facebook with her sister Willow to ride on a friend who had the chutzpah to say “Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing so hard right now.” Willow’s response was to call the poster a gay slur, and Bristol jumping in the fray to respondL “you’re just running your mouth to talk sh•t.” I give the Palin girls credit: the apples didn’t fall from the tree. They attack just like their mother. I w…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…h school; three of them. Leaving home in my teens meant I would never live with my youngest sister like I had with the other siblings. By the time I started visiting my mom with my own children, my sister lived on her own. When my mom became ill and could not keep up the homestead, she went to live with my sister until her death. It was not long before my mother died that I finally came to live somewhat close—a two hour’s drive—to my extended fami…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ear in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thing…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…, and it begins to dawn on you: radically inclusive. Not just words. I met with Yvette Flunder in her office at City of Refuge, where we talked about her background as a preacher, as the daughter of preachers, what it means to be bicultural—gay and church—and about how to reach more people with the message of inclusion. RD: I heard you speak earlier this year, in response to a question that was posed to you about homophobia in the black church, a…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…fight. If someone had pressed into his fingers at that pivotal moment the phone number for The Trevor Project, he might reach out and hear a voice of reassurance, a voice that gave him hope for life by, in part, repudiating the so-called biblical teaching that who he is amounts to an offense against God. If he’d had a sense of belonging to a community that embraced him for who he is, maybe his hope wouldn’t be so fully shattered. But while other…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…beholden by its very mission to speak to—and not alienate—a substantial viewing public, will tell a story that acknowledges some “dark sides” but ultimately is comforting and uplifting. Tired after a day’s work, we want Whig history. When done well, as is often the case here, it provides some heft to our treasured myths, film clips for our classrooms, and quick factual retorts to toss back at current-day purveyors of historical nonsense. That is a…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…s. In Lindsey’s interpretation, such disarmament fits a similar script as dystopian movies in which aliens “are fattening us up for lunch.” However Lindsey explains that this will be part of the tribulation, after the rapture—and, as already noted, complicit with the UN-led “one world government.”…