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Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…antagonism toward the church. Toscano remarked that these discussions sometimes felt “like the parents talking about what to do with the unruly children.” Also overlooked was the failure to include gender identity in the Festival welcome statement. Minister Shannon Kearns later wrote, “as a transgender person, I must say that my community was pretty much invisible on the main stages.” He added that “almost no [out transgender] person spoke from a…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…Klansmen in white hoods, but of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led America’s “crusade in Europe” as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance as president, and in 1955 was declared (by the Republican National Committee) “not only the political leader, but the spiritual leader of our times.” Now there was a real white Christian nationalist. By using the example of Eisenhower, Woodward is extending his a…

Science of Little Help with Personhood Issues

By Paul Wallace

…of intelligent design” (a.k.a. Creationism 2.0) to draw votes. Personhood USA quotes a scientist who says personhood “is no longer a matter of taste or opinion… it is plain experimental evidence.” And those who argue against Personhood USA also feel the need to employ scientific language to justify their position. We cloak meaning in the language of meaninglessness. Beneath the scientific clothing, however, lurk the moral and religious conviction…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…pro-life organization whose chairman, Tony Lauinger, is vice president of National Right to Life. What happens now? Perhaps the national personhood movement will set its sights on other states, or perhaps it will try to send judges a lesson by encouraging Oklahoma voters to vote “no” on judicial retention. One regional news outlet suggests that pro-lifers might ask the Legislature to put the issue on a statewide ballot. As for the Oklahoma pro-li…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…can leadership didn’t so much care that lobbyists were trying to do an end-run around the speaker and floor leader with their discharge petition. But regardless, in short order Rep. Mike Reynolds was quoted in the Tulsa World saying that “a major state organization has said [SB-1433] will make Oklahoma look like a backward state.” (To me, that sounds like the state Republican party, but obviously that’s just a guess because vague language is vague…

A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA

By Danny Fisher

…ll RFRAs are created equal,” as Aaron Weaver wrote recently for a Religion News Service blog: “If [SB 101’s] conservative champions were truth tellers and not trading in deception trying to pretend the Indiana RFRA is the same as the federal RFRA, they’d acknowledge that the goal is not to restore a long-standing religious freedom standard, but to rig the process to better ensure a desired result — a result that most recognize as discrimination.”…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…SBC, signers of the Danvers Statement include the Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, conservative Presbyterians, and men like John Piper, Wayne Grudem, and Mark Driscoll (the disgraced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and…

RD10Q: Living Without God

By Ronald Aronson

…arked your interest? I slowly began to realize that despite the stream of “New Atheist” books, most atheists, agnostics, and secularists still lacked confidence in their worldview and many of those I talked to confessed to still being at a loss when arguing with sophisticated religious believers. The forceful arguments of Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens against God and religion still left people without answers to a very different question: how do w…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…rms, even in liberal societies. I don’t believe it’s that clear-cut. It’s true that religious authorities have taken a “post-liberal” turn since the 1970s, but the growing rise of “no religion,” first in Europe and then the USA, is in part a reaction against this. The idea that your average Anglican in Britain yearns for “stricter” religion is demonstrably false. They would, however, have preferred a church which was more responsive to their moral…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…duate student who was himself the son of one of the leading figures of the New York Israelite community, had begun to work with the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library to collect papers from a dozen or so Black Israelite synagogues. I wrote an honors thesis on a small part of that collection, and then returned in graduate school to use the rest. Working towards my doctorate at UCLA I was fortunate enough to study Black Atlantic religio…