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

By Joanna Brooks

…ct LDS Church members identified as potential large donors were invited to participate in conference calls with members of the Quorum of the Seventy, a high-ranking Church leadership body. (Mormon Yes on 8 campaign observers believe that tithing records were used to identify call participants.) On the conference calls, high-ranking church leaders encouraged potential large donors to individually contribute $25,000 to protectmarriage.com. That’s wh…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…l data was routed through the Trade Center. “The printers are spitting out page after page of garbage,” she said before she rushed back to the office. I met a young Marine in the back of the coffee shop, nodded to him, knowing he would soon be at war. Traffic stopped, there were no planes in the sky, the phone didn’t ring. I supported the war to come, with only the reservation of who held the keys of command. Still, the enemies of the good must be…

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…latter is his now-anachronistic first resort to anger; again and again, he cheapens public discourse through exaggeration and wild claims. One imagines that if John McCain were President and Paul Krugman had said, out of the box, that he wanted McCain to fail, Gingrich would be leading the charge, calling Krugman ‘unpatriotic’ and even, perhaps, traitorous.” Gingrich’s “fresh start” as symbolized by his conversion to Catholicism – the faith of his…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…hmann, two Tea Party favorites with presidential aspirations. Most iGovern participants are homeschooled, because the organization running the show is a civic education program for homeschoolers called Generation Joshua. GenJ (as it is fondly called by its more than 5,000 teenage members) is a division of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), the world’s largest and most influential homeschool advocacy organization. “Generation Joshua…

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

By Jesse James DeConto

…I really was having those sorts of conversations. As an Episcopalian I was participating in the liturgy. I was living into the liturgical calendar. I was in Sunday School, with certain stories about Jesus and about Scripture. The discussions about what it means to be a Christian or about what it means to be a follower of Jesus, which are common in certain traditions, and where that engagement with Christian identity is so much on the surface and s…

Sometimes You Can’t Say a Word

By Jonathan L. Walton

…an, has lived his whole life in the state of North Carolina where his grandparents and parents picked tobacco as slaves and indebted sharecroppers. Even the telephone could not conceal the countenance of disbelief upon his brow as his measured voice repeated the mantra, “I never would have thought….I never would have thought.” My mother, who the night of Martin Luther King’s assassination fielded celebratory calls as a telephone operator in Memphi…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…p the interactive nature of new digital media, which invites both vertical participation between traditionally authoritative sources (like clergy) and laypeople of all ages and horizontal participation across affiliated sectors (such as young adults, Gen-Xers, and so on). Once the novelty of the new church toy wears thin, the falseness of its claim to cultural relevancy is revealed. An MP3 player loaded by the pastor is just a weird grownup’s mix…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…ans and 50 percent of the general population identified as “pro-life”; the number of Americans who identified as “pro-choice” hit a record low. But respondents’ opinions on policy issues around abortion had not drastically changed from previous years. Just over half of Americans think abortion should be “legal under certain” circumstances, only 2 percent more people than last year. Meanwhile, 25 percent of Americans (compared to 27 percent in 2011…

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

By Kaya Oakes

…rom friends and family. In footage streamed live on Facebook, the grief is palpable and raw. Several speakers broke down in tears and couldn’t continue. One admitted she was drunk, which was the only way she could handle getting up behind a microphone. God was barely mentioned. When asked about the secular nature of the vigil and why he agreed to participate, Rios responded that “it is always the responsibility of clergy to act in moments of disas…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…e Pakistani men too because plenty of them marry spouses selected by their parents. My brother married a wonderful woman that my parents found for him, while I (the daughter) traveled to the United States and married an American. Naturally, that afternoon, I gave up every attempt to jot notes for the public lecture I was preparing. I dedicated myself to studiously being the weird woman eavesdropping on the baristas’ conversation. So I had to deal…